La Serena, Coquimbo & the Elqui Valley — 4-Day Printable Itinerary (PDF)

The clearest sky on Earth, planned around it: 4 days between the coast and the Andes — La Serena's neocolonial streets, a Humboldt penguin boat trip at Punta de Choros, the Elqui Valley's pisco route, and a night under a professional-grade observatory sky.

WHAT'S INSIDE (A4 PDF, instant download):

• Day-by-day plan: La Serena & the Monumental Lighthouse → Coquimbo & Punta de Choros penguins → Vicuña & the pisco route → observatory stargazing night
• Schematic route map of the 4 days
• 2026 budget tables in CLP + USD: tours, observatory fees, transport
• Checklist: observatory bookings (they sell out weeks ahead), moonless-night timing, penguin-tour weather buffer
• 10 bonus places from our 30,000-place Chile catalog
• FAQ: best month for clear skies, how far the valley is, is it kid-friendly

WHY TRUST THIS: it's compiled by the team behind guias.viajesypanoramas.cl, a free Chile travel-guide site built on a catalog of 30,000+ real places across Chile. This kit distills those guides into one route you can follow off-line.

Place data is derived from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

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