Walking Tour of San Pedro de Atacama Stories and Legends

We will start at the Gustavo Le Paige museum,
where we will see pre-Columbian artifacts loaded with magic and history, discovering the hidden identity of the place.

We will walk through the town, talking about myths, legends, improbable and incredible stories that surround us,
syncretisms, Andean worldview and the cultures of the pre-Columbian peoples who inhabit Chile and its surroundings to this day.

We will go to a viewpoint outside the town, with a privileged view of the 3 mountain ranges that surround us, where we will begin to unite the pre-Columbian past together with the current syncretism of our society.

We will finish the tour in the historic center of the town, going to see the church and the house of Pedro de Valdivia that are located in the main square, to explain ancestral construction techniques and the stories that surround both places, where the union of the past with the present of this magical place.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Museo R. P. Gustavo Le Paige, zona de recinto transitorio, Tebenquinche entre Ave. Del Inca y - Av. Pedro de Valdivia, 1410000 Antofagasta, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

We will see pre-Columbian artifacts loaded with magic and history, discovering the hidden identity of the place.

From prehistory, through the first inhabitants of the Salar de Atacama and its later connection with Tiwanaku.


Duration: 40 minutes

Pass By: Las Parinas, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

It plays an important role within the community of San Pedro de Atacama, not only because in Chile the firefighters are volunteers, but also because they have had several heroic rescues due to where we are.

Pass By: Cementerio de San Pedro de Atacama, Сан-Педро-де-Атакама, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

First approximation on syncretisms and life after death in the Andes.

Pass By: Museo del Meteorito, Tocopilla 201, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000 Chile

Place charged with energy that is literally out of this world.

Pass By: Puente San Pedro de Atacama, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

Capricious San Pedro River, for years it blesses us with its waters and for times it curses us with it.

Stop At: Iglesia San Pedro, Caracoles 362, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

It is a place full of magic, syncretism, history and local architecture.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Casa Pedro de Valdivia, Toconao, 1410000 San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

First Conquistador to arrive in Chile, a story full of ups and downs. What will it end up with?

Duration: 10 minutes

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