Luxury Chile and Bolivia Holidays

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Tucked away behind the Andes is South America's tall, leggy beauty, Chile. Her vital statistics are impressive: only 180 km wide but 4329 km long, and with looks to die for. From the arid deserts of the north through to temperate rainforests, glaciers, lakes and fjords to the south, Chile's dramatic landscapes are hard to resist.

Once a backpacker-only trip, the excellent Explora hotel now offers the journey of a lifetime from Chile's Atacama Desert across into Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a blindingly-white salt desert dotted with black volcanic rock, giant cactae and multi-coloured lakes.

Santiago & Wine Region
Chile’s cosmopolitan capital is well worth a couple of days en route north or south. Wine-buffs can stay on one of the excellent vineyards outside Santiago to taste Chile’s finest or head over to the coast for a mooch around historic Valparaiso.
Ski the Andes
Impress your friends with a ski-ing trip in the Andes from July to September. Combine with the Atacama Desert for a luxury holiday with a difference.
Atacama Desert
An oasis in the Atacama Desert, the dusty little town of San Pedro is weird and wonderful. Lunar landscapes, a salt lake dotted with flamingoes, geysers, volcanoes and fabulous night skies. Magical. View these fabulous night skies from Explora Atacama's observation dome.
Bolivian Salt Flats
Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is a must for our intrepid travellers. This photographer’s paradise offers up eye-popping scenery on the world’s largest and highest salt lake.
Easter Island
A five-hour flight from Santiago, Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) is one of the world’s most remote and mysterious places, famous for its enormous Moai statues. Stay at Explora Easter Island for luxury lodgings on the island. Follow it with some relaxation time on a French Polynesian beach.
Lake District
The gorgeous Chilean Lakes are the perfect spot for active types. Here you can trek up volcanoes and through waterfalls, fish, kayak, play golf, take a trip to mystical Chiloe Island, or cross through the Andes to Argentina.
Southern Patagonia & the Fjords
Head south with our Trek Patagonia itinerary, to the Torres del Paine Natinal Park, a biosphere reserve of waterfalls, glaciers, dense forests, and granite pillars that soar more than 2000m above the Patagonian steppes. Or sail through the Magellan Straits and the Beagle Channel and around the infamous Cape Horn, taking in fjords, glaciers, penguins and sea elephants.