Putre is a sort of gate for a world beyond.
It offers an outstanding bite of the Altiplano pureness and it is the perfect basis to explore the wonders of Parque Nacional Lauca. Here you can breath in full the genuine spirit of this magic land, having the chance to experiment fantastic hiking trails, off-beaten track drives, loneliness of colorful desert and mystic volcanoes, amazing fauna wondering around you.
All these, in comfortable standards (obviously you must have explorer attitude), but far away from heavy tourist route.
Attractions such as Salar de Surire, Chungarà & Cotacotani, Suriplaza are memorable for an entire life.

Are you looking for a bite of adventure, loneliness, pure exploration, for a land inspiring saudade at first sight and at the same for the feeling to be at the button belly of World? Sand Pedro de Atacama is the answer.
We have never come across something comparable to San Pedro. This small dusty town is literally a frontier, politically, geographically and geologically, it's definitely a border. Nevertheless here you jump into a different dimension: a borderless world where every kind of people from everywhere come to. It's a place out of time and out of World, but everything come alive here.
Luxury and battered style coexist, indeed they generate together a perfect alchemy that is impossible to resist. In San Pedro you can explore unreachable lands, in San Pedro you have a pure freedom fun with no frills, you discover the World and its splendid diversity. You grow up by nourishing your own mind openness, your culture and your soul.
San Pedro is a village you fall in love with; a place that sticks to you, a place where you feel the visceral need to return.
San Pedro de Atacama is perfectly located into an ideal circus of multiples top class attractions and therefore it's the perfect basis to spend several days to explore the Atacama.
Main attractions: Valle de la Luna, Valle de Marte, Pukara de Quitor, Salar de Atacama, Lascar, Quebrada de Kezala, Miscanti & Miniques, Piedra Rojas & Laguna Aguas Caliente III, Salar de Tara and Caldera de Pacana, geyser El Tatio, Vega de Putana, Reserva Nacional De Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa (Bolivia), ... etc.
(*Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos includes various sites mentioned above)

Salar de Surire is a wonderland, for offbeaten destinations lovers. It’s a must itself. The trip you embark on to get there is sort of mythical travel into a land that spans through a divine crowd of volcanoes, endless into the sky. You ford rivers, pass through fairy altiplano’s meadows, small pueblos completely out-of-the World.
The landscape goes up far over any expectation you may have and flamingos, viscachas, vicunas, rheas (suris) are the amazing inhabitants of this nature’s artwork.
Don't miss the pueblo of Guallatire along with the astonishing Guallatiri Volcano and the magnetic beauty of Termas de Polloquere on your way.
One full day of a self drive loop tour, from Putre to Surire and way back, is a once in life experience, which actually you would like to repeat every day.