San Pedro de Atacama Walking Tour: Exploring Stories, Legends, and Pre-Columbian Culture
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Embark on a captivating walking tour of San Pedro de Atacama, uncovering the secrets of its pre-Columbian culture, legends, and enchanting stories. Explore museums, viewpoints, and historic sites.
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Museo R. P. Gustavo Le Paige, zona de recinto transitorio - We will see pre-Columbian artifacts loaded with magic and history, discovering the hidden identity of the place.

From prehistory, through the first inhabitants of the Salar de Atacama and its later connection with Tiwanaku.

  • Las Parinas - It plays an important role within the community of San Pedro de Atacama, not only because in Chile the firefighters are volunteers, but also because they have had several heroic rescues due to where we are.
  • Cementerio de San Pedro de Atacama - First approximation on syncretisms and life after death in the Andes.
  • Museo del Meteorito - Place charged with energy that is literally out of this world.
  • Puente San Pedro de Atacama - Capricious San Pedro River, for years it blesses us with its waters and for times it curses us with it.
  • Iglesia San Pedro - It is a place full of magic, syncretism, history and local architecture.
  • Casa Pedro de Valdivia - First Conquistador to arrive in Chile, a story full of ups and downs. What will it end up with?
What's Included
  • Complimentary bottled water
Additional Information

We will start at the Gustavo Le Paige museum,
where we will see pre-Columbian artifacts loaded with magic and history, discovering the hidden identity of the place.

We will walk through the town, talking about myths, legends, improbable and incredible stories that surround us,
syncretisms, Andean worldview and the cultures of the pre-Columbian peoples who inhabit Chile and its surroundings to this day.

We will go to a viewpoint outside the town, with a privileged view of the 3 mountain ranges that surround us, where we will begin to unite the pre-Columbian past together with the current syncretism of our society.

We will finish the tour in the historic center of the town, going to see the church and the house of Pedro de Valdivia that are located in the main square, to explain ancestral construction techniques and the stories that surround both places, where the union of the past with the present of this magical place.

Location
Museo R. P. Gustavo Le Paige, zona de recinto transitorio
Avenida Pedro de Valdivia
From the church of San Pedro, turn east on Gustavo LePaige street, turn left on Avenida del Inca, right on Tebenquiche and finally left on Camino del Inca, the entrance will be on the left.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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