From the coastal city of Iquique you’ll cross the desert, gaining altitude on every kilometer and watching the changing landscape around you. We’ll visit the Tajgrapata rock boulders crowned by the colorful Huayna Potosi climb. Crossing the Aroma creek and its beautiful sights we’ll reach the Aymara town of Cariquima. Just a few kilometers more separate us from lunch! A small adobe made village on the feet of the “frozen carnival” rock formation is our destination of today, here, an Aymara (the local ethnic group) couple is waiting to share its food and table with you; you’ll be able to talk and taste everything, learning about this different way of living, respect for their animals, growing vegetables techniques, quinoa growing, cleaning and cooking technique and much more.

After lunch, we say good bye to our hosts and head to the small Villablanca lake, where many species of birds feed and nest under the sight of Cariquima volcano and the gorgeous looks of the “bofedal” and its yellow and green tones.

After the sights and flavors of the highlands we start the driving back to the city of Iquique, arriving by night.

There is two people minimum of passengers for this excursion. There is a maximum of 6 passengers.

If you are traveling alone or more passengers are required, please contact us to design a non-binding custom proposal for you.

The Prices per person are:      

• 2 people USD110 p/p
• From 3 to 6 people USD90 p/p

Payment Options

We use Paypal, which allows you to use your local credit or debit cards from home. We accept bank deposits as well.

Reservations for this expedition must be made with at least 2 week days prior departure.

For Chilean citizens, we receive payments via online transfers or bank deposits too.

We don’t receive checks and pays with credit cards can only be done online (paypal) in advance.

Cancellation Policy

If you decide to cancel your tour reservation, for any reason, the following are our terms,

Time frame / You receive:

• 15 days before trip departure / 70% refund of what you have paid.
• 14  to 7 days before trip departure / 40% of your payments.
• 1 day before trip departure / 15% of your payments.

Transfer Policy

If you would like to change to a different tour or departure date after signing up, we will be happy to transfer you on a space available basis up until 10 days prior to your tour. Please provide your transfer request in writing – email is sufficient.

Tour Confirmation

Místico Outdoors will confirm your trip 20 days in advance and will be done via e mail. The reasons to cancel a booked tour will be due to bad weather conditions, government prohibitions or security reasons of any kind. If this is the case you will get 80% of your deposit refunded and will be happy to offer you another options.