Cejar Lagoon (Laguna Cejar) Tours and Activities

Located just 20 miles from the town of San Pedro de Atacama, this unusual desert sinkhole attracts many visitors. Filled with water, Cejar Lagoon (Laguna Cejar) is popular for the opportunity it provides to take a dip in the middle of the desert. The water can have salt concentrations up to 30 percent, which makes floating not only easy, but also pretty much impossible to avoid. For this reason, the lake is often compared to the Dead Sea and is sometimes called the “floating lake.” The top few inches of water are often warm from the sun, while there are cold currents down below, making for a mixed swimming experience.
Even if you decide not to swim in this “floating lake,” enjoy the view and how the glassy surface reflects the scenery back to you, including the Domeyko mountain range. Flamingos occasionally fly overhead and the lake is ringed white with residual salt, while the blue of the lake contrasts with the yellow tussock grass that grows all around.
Practical Info
Cejar Lagoon can be visited on a half-day trip, so it's still manageable if you have an afternoon flight out of Calama. Those with sensitive skin should bring fresh water to rinse off the salt and keep their faces out of the lagoon water.
Address: San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
23 Tours and Activities to Experience Cejar Lagoon (Laguna Cejar)
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San Pedro de Atacama: 4-Days Magic Desert Adventure
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This 4-day tour of the Atacama Desert takes the planning and guesswork out of exploring the region’s highlights. Your guide accompanies you to the otherworldly landscape and salt caves at Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley), vibrantly colored red rock formations Chaxa Lagoon, and off-the-beaten-track sites that you might miss on your own. All transportation is included with daily hotel pickup and drop-off, so you can choose your own accommodation and meals to suit your tastes.
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Atacama Salt Flat Lagoons Tour Including Ojos del Salar from San Pedro de Atacama
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Experience the unearthly splendor of the Chilean desert landscape on an afternoon and evening tour from San Pedro de Atacama. Float in the unique Cejar Lagoon, famed for its exorbitant salt concentration; admire the proximate lagoons of Ojos del Salar, renowned for their distinct appearance of eyes; and watch a spectacular sunset over the desert while sipping sweet pisco sours.
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Laguna Cejar
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Explore one of the most striking landscapes in Chile. This small-group tour takes you to Laguna Cejar, a lagoon in the middle of the desert, where, due to the high concentration of salt, you can float on the surface. Lie back and soak up the sights of the Atacama desert—the blue sky, white salt, and pink of the flamingos that come to feed.
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$65.00
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Cejar and Tebinquinche Lagoons
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Float in the salty waters of the Cejar Lagoon in the heart of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Traverse the desert by car to reach the huge lake that abounds with enormous salt deposits underneath its surface. After a salty dip, head to the Salt Flat Eyes to swim in the freshwater pools of Atacama and end the tour with a sunset aperitif while admiring the dry, Andean landscapes.
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Laguna Cejar Tour Safari style by Grade 10
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In an exclusive safari-style bus, with reclining seats and an unparalleled panoramic view, we will take you to the most spectacular places in the Atacama Desert.
Traveling routes with us you can become part of nature and also enjoy great comfort, security and an excellent service.
On the Cejar Lagoon tour you will see incredible places from the heights of our overland bus. You can bathe in a salt lagoon where the bodies float, you will see the reflection of the mountains in the Tebenquinche lagoon and finally enjoy a cocktail watching the sunset in the middle of the desert with an exquisite cocktail prepared by our staff all this in our safari bus
Recommendations:
Bring a jacket, bathing suit, towel, sunscreen and 1 liter of mineral water per person.
Note: Use of sunscreen and sandals is not permitted in the lagoon.
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$35.90
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Cejar & Tebinquinche Lagoons Tour from San Pedro de Atacama
In the middle of the Atacama Salt Flat and in an environment of great natural beauty you will find Cejar Lagoon, surrounded by salt crystals that even more highlight its turquoise waters.
Know the blue and emerald waters that form the wonderful Cejar Lagoon.
See the beautiful landscape of the Salt Mountain Range and the Licancabur volcano.
At sunset, with ocher colors and strong tones, you will enjoy an unforgettable spectacle
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$69.00
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Lagoons in Atacama Salt Flat - Half Day - Typical Tour - San Pedro de Atacama
Lagoons in San Pedro de Atacama salt flat welcome you to this land next to the desert valleys. This vast space gathers the flora and fauna that lives in the dry habitat of the Antofagasta Region, and allows an exchange of experiences between people and biodiversity.
Lagoons are the entrance to the subsoil composition, and for understanding how everything flows and connects in the valleys of the desert. They are also the door to magic, letting people visit them respectfully and rest in their salt water that allows to float.
During this tour through the lagoons in Atacama salt flat you will have the chance of knowing and admiring the source of energy of the earth of this place: water and its mysticism.
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Cejar and Tebinquinche Lagoons
Its quite an experience to enter a lagoon where you cannot drown. This lagoon contains so much salt that is virtually impossible for the human body to drown.
Adding to this fact, the landscape of the region, where you get to the see the Andes Mountains in all its glory is astonishing.
Finish this day with a picnic during the sunset in the beautiful Tebinchique Lagoon. The variety of colors of the natural landscape changes at every minute during this sunset. Its a view that defies belief.
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Small-Group tour to Laguna Cejar, Ojos del Salar and Laguna Tebinquinche
With this small-group tour, you will have the opportunity to visit one of the highlights in a more intimate way, sharing your day with other travellers but avoiding big groups:
Found within the Atacama Salt Flats is the Cejar Lagoon. This body of water is a saltwater swimming pool where you can float until your troubles fade away. Find yourself relaxing as you take in the views of the beautiful landscape paired against the turquoise waters, volcanoes and great expanse of the salar. Next up, you’ll visit the Salar Eyes, which are two freshwater round-shaped lagoons in the middle of one of the world’s driest deserts. To further add to your adventure, you’ll visit the impressive Tebinquinche Lagoon where you’ll stop to enjoy a view of the Andes reflected in the saltwater lagoon and, in summer you can observe how water evaporation forms a white mantle of salt.
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$46.48
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Cejar Lagoon
We are known for delivering good service, the best personalized and prepared guides, excellent transport cars and drivers, punctuality, the tour makes your tour something wonderful.
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Full Sorbac Atacama, check in Tuesday
They are 6 or 7 full days of adventure, perfect for long trips, where you want to know all the corners of San Pedro. Different landscapes every day.
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$780.00
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$780.00
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Classic Sorbac Atacama, check in Monday and Wednesday
They are four full days of adventure, perfect for short trips, where you can get to know all the main attractions of San Pedro.
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$470.00
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Classic Sorbac Atacama, check in Friday
They are four full days of adventure, perfect for short trips, where you can get to know all the main attractions of San Pedro.
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Classic Sorbac Atacama, check in on Saturdays
They are four full days of adventure, perfect for short trips, where you can get to know all the main attractions of San Pedro.
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Full Sorbac Atacama, check in Monday
They are 6 or 7 full days of adventure, perfect for long trips, where you want to know all the corners of San Pedro. Different landscapes every day.
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$780.00
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Activated Full Sorbac Atacama, check in Friday
They are 6 or 7 full days of adventure, perfect for long trips, where you want to know all the corners of San Pedro. Different landscapes every day.
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Full Sorbac Atacama, check in Thursday
They are 6 or 7 full days of adventure, perfect for long trips, where you want to know all the corners of San Pedro. Different landscapes every day.
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Sorbac Weekend Sunset
They are three days of adventure, perfect for short weekend trips, where they will meet incredible attractions and totally different landscapes from each other.
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Sorbac Weekend Rainbow
They are three days of adventure, perfect for short weekend trips, where they will meet incredible attractions and totally different landscapes from each other.
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Classic Sorbac Atacama, check in Tuesday and Thursday
They are four full days of adventure, perfect for short trips, where you can get to know all the main attractions of San Pedro.
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Cejar Lagoon and Ojos del Salar in Atacama
We invite you to live a different experience in the Laguna del Cejar, in the Atacama desert, surrounded by incredible mountain landscapes. This excursion is ideal for the first days in Atacama.
We will enjoy the sensation of floating in the beautiful turquoise waters of this lagoon located at 2300 meters above sea level and enjoy a beautiful sunset surrounded by a colorful landscape.
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Atacama Desert Night Camping in Atacama
The San Pedro de Atacama desert is famous for having some of the best viewing for stars in the night sky, and it’s full of otherworldly-looking canyons, lakes, and landmarks. So, with our Camping Tour, we offer you the posibility of going star-gazing and watching sunrises from out in the wilderness. We include all the necesary equipmant as well as meals, so you just have to relax and enjoy your adevnture!
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Full day Geyser del Tatio + Cejar Lagoon
Unique place where you can enjoy a Geyser and bathe in the Cejar lagoon, with a cocktail and pisco sour.
This early morning tour is the easiest way to visit the Tatio Geyser of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, without having to worry about planning transportation. At 14,170 feet (4,320 meters) above sea level, this geothermal field is the highest in the world. You will travel in a comfortable van and enjoy the spectacular views of the geysers in one of the best hours of the day: sunrise. Also, breakfast and national park fees are included.
After first one in the afternoon we wil visit the Cejar Lagoon with chance to relax and swing at the Lagoon so the local tour guide will give you a big speech about this nice place moment to to get photos and enjoy with this gorgeous scenary and then time to back to the hotel
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