Culture · Atacama and the Altiplano
A night under the Atacama sky
Out past the last light with an astronomer, a telescope and two hours of nothing else.
Forty minutes from town, on a flat pan with no settlement in any direction. An astronomer sets up, talks for twenty minutes and then mostly lets you look.
On a moonless night the Magellanic Clouds are visible without a telescope. We check the moon phase against your dates before we propose them.
Good to know
- Only worthwhile on a moonless or early-moon night
- Below freezing; dress as for a winter night, whatever the daytime felt like
- Cancelled in cloud, which is rare but does happen
- How long
- Three hours after dark
- Kind
- Culture
- On
- 2 journeys
Where it appears
Journeys that include this
9 days · Private
The Altiplano Traverse
Salt flats, altiplanic lagoons and the geyser field at dawn, sequenced by a geologist so that the altitude does not ruin it.
Desert and altitudeWalking and trails€5,400from, per person
6 days · Small group
Desert Sky
The short version of the Atacama, built around two nights of astronomy and one day on the altiplano.
Desert and altitude€3,200from, per person
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