On a natural high - Tierra Atacama & Tierra Patagonia - Chile

Chile is a huge country of astonishing geographic and climactic diversity and one third of its area is dominated by the Atacama Desert. Further south, in the Torres Del Paine National Park, the landscape morphs into windswept steppes, lofty mountains and massive glaciers.

Remote as these regions are, don’t imagine that you will be leaving creature comforts behind when you visit these divine resorts: Tierra Atacama and Tierra Patagonia have been on everyone’s hot list since they opened. Each offers a sense of place that reflects the drama of the landscapes, décor that showcases indigenous design, excursions that reveal the underbelly of the landscapes and a spa where the treatments offer profound rejuvenation and a foil to the awesome surroundings.

Tierra Atacama is an imaginative adobe-and-stone building, an eco-friendly base from which to explore salt flats, geysers and volcanic peaks, eight of which are visible from the hotel. Tracts of red desert sand, wind-sculpted rocks and crystalline salt formations crackle as the temperature changes. The air is translucent, the light is magical and each night the Milky Way brilliantly blankets heavens.

At the end of each day, when it comes to food, local ingredients, some grown in the resort’s own gardens, take pride of place. House wines at both hotels are sourced from Matetic Vineyards, a boutique biodynamic winery near Santiago.

Tierra Patagonia too is an inspired building dominated by a grand sweep of immense floor-to-ceiling windows. Its design and fabric are sympatico with the landscape and culture. From inside it is impossible to drag your gaze from the extraordinary view across Lago Sarmiento to the granite monoliths of the Cordillera del Paine. It offers the same excellent cuisine and house wines as Tierra Atacama plus excursions often end with a Patagonian lamb BBQ cooked by a local gaucho.

TIERRA PACKAGE INCLUDES: 5 NIGHTS ACCOMMODATION • TRANSFERS • ALL MEALS • OPEN BAR • A DAILY ACTIVITY • CONCIERGE BONUS PRIVILEGES: ONE 30 MINUTE MASSAGE • 1 NIGHT RITZ CARLTON SANTIAGO • 1 NIGHT & DINNER LA CASONA, MATETIC VINEYARDS WITH CELLAR TASTING TOUR • FROM USD2,190.00 PER PERSON, TWIN SHARE • VARIOUS PRICES & VALIDITY DATES UNTIL APRIL 2013

Contact Paul Patane for more information on 1800 047 047 or email him at: ppatane@conciergetraveller.com