Plan your trip
This is the index of plan your trip on Atacama Tours Chile. Each page below answers one question fully, and every one of them links back here so you can move between them without searching.
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Altitude in San Pedro de Atacama
2,407m in town, 4,320m on the geyser tour. The order to book your days in, what the symptoms are, and where this page stops.
An Atacama Itinerary, One to Five Days
Which excursions in which order, built around altitude rather than the map. What one day gets you and why three is the honest minimum.
Hiking and Trekking in the Atacama
Walking in a desert with thin air and unfiltered sun. The walks from town, the valley routes, and what altitude does to an easy trail.
Moon Phase and Atacama Stargazing
A full moon ruins the tour you flew across the world for. New and full moons to April 2028, in Chilean time, so you can check your dates.
Stargazing in the Atacama Desert
Why this sky is the best on Earth, what a tour actually shows you, and the one thing that decides whether your night is worth the money.
The Best Time to Visit the Atacama Desert
The station record puts annual rainfall at 38mm and humidity as low as 13%. Which months that favours, and the two weeks to avoid.
What to Pack for the Atacama Desert
The daily temperature swing is about 20C in every month of the year, and −10C at the geysers. What that means for what goes in the bag.