Why to know Cochiguaz

The advantage about going to Cochiguaz is how easy you can disconnect from the world and just take a rest. If you want to, you can be disconnected automatically.
If not, there is always satellite phone, or some other Internet connection to handle e-mails and keep in contact. In any case, the feeling of isolation and connection to the Andes Mountains, are absolute.

Cochiguaz is located in a small valley among precordilleran hills, just minutes from the classic and mystic Elqui Valley. As hundreds of thousands people each year enjoy the natural beauty of the Elqui, this small and relatively hidden valley provides the tranquillity that can not find anywhere.

¿Why should you know Cochiguaz?
First: its characteristics. The model of villages in Elqui Valley requires basic recurrent elements: a single main street, a small square and a church in front of it. This has worked for centuries and is well maintained. But Cochiguaz is different, it has none of these requirements, there isn’t a “Welcome to Cochiguaz”, there is no signal. Rather, it reflects what we might call “community”, a group of people linked by common interests. In this case, the interest is clear: to enjoy life with calm and connect with the energies of the world.

Then, there is that issue, the energy. How to feel it, how to channel it and how to get it back. In that sense, Cochiguaz is the perfect place. In most of the cabins and resorts they offer accommodation to tourists to perform services such as reiki, baths with volcanic soil or aromatic “fire of healing” therapies, meditation, and more. Thousands of recipes and ways to recover energy and take stress off, product of the work and the city life. Experience these therapies and notice the difference.

The third reason to come to Cochiguaz is the natural beauty of the place. Going out to ride through the hills, crossing streams, watching how they appear in green meadows and moist semi-arid landscape, the impressive sight and the range of colours and textures that every hill shows in the road.
And finally, the valley’s night show. To say that we are under the clearest sky in the world seems obvious at this point. Imagine now how it should be at night and almost no light pollution. The show is priceless: cleaner skies become the darkest and the brightest at the same time.

All this in a little valley hidden in the Coquimbo Region, about 110 km from the city of La Serena, which invites you to put aside everyday life, escape and unwind