La Serena Trip Overview
This 6 HOURS tour will take you through the great Elqui Valley (Valle del Elqui) where you can find places with paths between vineyards and fruit trees, barren hills covered with vines and pisco factories (liquor extracted from grapes).
We will visit the city of Vicuña where you can find its main square and the museum of the poet Gabriela Mistral. Also you can visit the salesroom of Papaya, the typical fruit of the area. Then we will enjoy lunch in a restaurant where food is cooked with sunlight!
Additional Info
Duration: 6 hours
Starts: La Serena, Chile
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile
This 6 HOURS tour will take you through the great Elqui Valley (Valle del Elqui) where you can find places with paths between vineyards and fruit trees, barren hills covered with vines and pisco factories (liquor extracted from grapes).
We will visit the city of Vicuña where you can find its main square and the museum of the poet Gabriela Mistral. Also you can visit the salesroom of Papaya, the typical fruit of the area. Then we will enjoy lunch in a restaurant where food is cooked with sunlight!
Stop At: Valle del Elqui, La Serena Chile
Duration: 6 hours
Stop At: Embalse Puclaro, Vicuna Chile
From La Serena we will make the first stop: the reservoir Puclaro, engineering work created for the reserve of drinking water and irrigation of the fields of the Elqui Valley. We can see a beautiful view to the river. Detention 30 minutes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Pisco Elqui, Pisco Elqui, Coquimbo Region
Later, we visit a Pisco factory, where we will know the process of the distillate of the grape. We tour the plant, taste their products and visit the showroom.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Torre Bauer, Plaza de Armas, Vicuna Chile
After this activity, we visit the city of Vicuña, its main square, the tower Bauer.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Museo Gabriela Mistral de Vicuna, Gabriela Mistral 759 Calle Gabriela Mistral, entre Baquedano y Riquelme, Vicuna 1760712 Chile
Then visit the Gabriela Mistral museum, where we will learn of the life of this great Poetess. Detention 30 minutes.
Then close at 13:30 pm, we will go to lunch at the town of Villaseca, famous for its delicious dishes that are cooked with sunlight. Detention 1 hour.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Papayas Yanez, Ruta 41 km11, La Serena Chile
We started the return to La Serena, where we will stop in the sales center Papayas, typical fruit of the area, where you can buy different products made from papaya.
Duration: 1 hour
