Explora Lodges, guest-houses, and hotels in Patagonia, the Atacama Desert, and Easter Island combine suitable architecture with Explora’s unique experiential approach to tourism and enable luxury travel in some of this planet's most remote regions.

Now explora plans to go one step further with TRAVESÍAS Explora, which will give travelers the opportunity to explore other regions in South America that compliment our traditional programs.

TRAVESÍAS emphasizes the idea of a "journey"-undertaking longer distances instead of being centered in a fixed area and thereby creating a more intense experience of traveling.

TRAVESÍAS explora are indispensable compliments to a journey to South America.

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 Revised: 07 Oct 2005

 

  EXPLORA Lodges & Tours
EXPLORA ATACAMA   
This Explora hotel property showcases a high-altitude desert unlike any other landscape. San Pedro is a quiet desert town and the base for Explora Atacama tourists. Explorations include pre-Columbian archaeology, salt flats with flamingoes, lunar-like dunes, eroded canyons, alpine lakes, aquatic bird life and the Tatio Geysers. Explora offers outings by foot, horse, vehicle & bike. The lodge’s unique desert-adapted architecture overlooks desert landscapes on the edge of San Pedro and you can easily walk or bike into the town to shop and see local life. Equestrians will love the Arabian, Chileno and American Quarter Horse mounts of Explora hotels and guest houses! From 496.00 US $ per person sharing. Departs SET DAYS with minimum 2 pax.

EXPLORA PATAGONIA  
The sea level national park of Torres del Paine is a 5-hour drive from Punta Arenas. Explora Lodge guests select from over 16 excursions including hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking and exploring the park in a four-wheel drive vehicle. Scenery includes the Torres geological formations, glaciers and unusual wildlife. Torres del Paine is a very remote region where unpredictable winds prevent reliable flight access. In Patagonia, the Explora lodge overlooks Torres del Paine’s glacier-capped towers. The Patagonia based Explora lodge recently added 40 hotel rooms, reflecting the ideas and concepts of Explora's unique approach to tourism. From 496.00 US $ per person sharing. Departs DAILY with minimum 2 pax.

EXPLORA TRAVESIAS TRIP TROUGH THE PATAGONIA - 9 day/8 night itinerary  
Start with four nights at Explora’s exclusive property in Torres del Paine, enjoying varied excursions and activities amid the glaciers, lagoons and granite massifs of what is possibly South America’s finest park. Then on a 5 day across the Argentine frontier to the tiny settlement of El Chalten, in the Fitz Roy mountains of Los Glaciares National Park. Based at a comfortable hotel for the next four nights, daily hikes of up to 6-8 hours will be organized into this glorious wilderness of soaring glacial peaks and dense forests. The Southern Ice Field is situated between approximately latitude 48ºS and 51º30'S. From 496.00 US $ per person sharing. Departs DAILY with minimum 2 pax.

EXPLORA TRAVESIA JOURNEY TO UYUNI THE BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO - 11 day/10 night itinerary  
Start at the Explora’s Hotel in Atacama to appreciate this region of rugged desert canyons, dunes, volcanoes, and geysers on foot, horseback, or by vehicle. In spite of its aridity and extravagance, the Atacama still provides a place where man can live yet conserve large spaces. Then continue to the Bolivian frontier, driving across some of South America most remote and startlingly beautiful terrain and camping among dazzling salt flats and turquoise lagoons. The Altiplano is another world, an enigma provoking the imagination and providing remembrance of purity and vastness. Return to Chile crossing the Salar de Coipasa to the city of Iquique where the tour ends. From 496.00 US $ per person sharing. Departs DAILY with minimum 2 pax.

EXPLORA TRAVESIA CROSSING THE ANDES - 8 day/7 night itinerary 
Travelers to this region are given the opportunity to experience the beauty of volcanoes and salt flats interwoven between lakes and marshes throughout territory that rises higher than 4,000 meters. Begin with a 4 night stay at Explora’s Hotel de Atacama with a flexible program of excursions and activities allowing you to enjoy this region of rugged desert canyons, dunes, volcanoes and geysers on foot, horseback, or by vehicle. Then drive across the border into Argentina on to spend the next few days hiking amid the lakes, salt flats and volcanoes of the spectacular, high altitude region. The trip can be taken from Argentina to Chile, or vice versa. From 496.00 US $ per person sharing. Departs DAILY with minimum 2 pax.

EXPLORA TRAVESIA TRIP TO EASTER ISLAND - 4-8 day/3-7 night itinerary  
Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and home to a culture whose origins are still unknown, Easter Island is a place of magnetism and mystery. In early 2005, Explora opened a full hotel (more aptly put, guest house) operation on Easter Island. Travel Beyond has enthusiastically decided to offer this incredible Explora destination to it's intrepid travelers. Known as the Island of Rapa Nui, Easter Island has unparalleled historical, archaeological, and cultural significance. The Explora Guest Houses on Easter Island are by far the best place to stay during your journey to Easter Island, the land of timeless mysteries. From 496.00 US $ per person sharing. Departs DAILY with minimum 2 pax.
 
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