Our Company
INDIAN VALLEY EXPLORERS
We are Stefanie Hägele and Iván Torres, a German-Chilean fusion “settled” in a permanent way in the Huasco Valley, Atacama Region since 2008.
Stefanie studied graphic publicity in Germany before travelling as backpacker in different countries of Europe, Asia and South America. Since 2003 she lives in Chile where she started to dedicate her working life to tourism. In 2012 she founded the local Tour Operator of Huasco Valley “Indian Valley Explorers” where she also works as tourguide. She speaks Spanish, English and German.
Iván was born and grown up in the Huasco Valley. He belongs to the indigenous ethnic group of the Diaguita. He studied marine culture but has been working as silversmith since 2004. He traveled in different countries of South America and Europe before installing his own jewelry-workshop in Chile. He creates jewels made of silver, copper, semi precious and precious stones – in part with ethnic applications.
Our Mision is
- To provide to our clients experiences in direct contact with nature as well as with relevant local personalities
- To transmit what characterizes the Huasco Province from the mountains to the sea involving in the tours local providers and site guides
- To respect the natural and cultural environment as well as the local community
- To focus on a family and personalized attention working mainly with small groups
- To put in value the natural, cultural and culinary riches of the Huasco Province
Our Services
- TOURIST GUIDE SERVICE
- LOCAL TOURIST PROGRAMS
- TREKKING
- BIKE TOURS
- EXPERIENTIAL PEDAGOGY PROGRAMS
- OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT AND BICYCLE RENTAL
- HANDICRAFTS
Our Sutainability Policy
Our Sutainability Policy
Indian Valley Explorers , a small family enterprise and local Tour Operator of the Huasco Valley, was born in the year 2012 based on the conviction of its creators, that this territory is full of natural and cultural riches - some of them unique – which provide a hugh potencial to the place as tourist destination and therefore the oportunity of a local sustainable economic development, independent of mega industries , founded on micro- and small local entrepreneurship and based on the authenticity and identity of the place.
With the desire and the mision to contribute a grain of sand to this kind of ecomomic development, we created a local tourist offer based on sustainable practics and focused on the environmental- as well as the sociocultural conservation in the territory.
For that we declare to:
- Do not support or encourage tourism of sexual and commercial exploitation of children, adolescents and people in general, committing ourselves and adhering to the Code of Conduct for the prevention of “ESCNNA” (sexual and commercial exploitation of children and adolescents).
- Adopt the commitment to the 10 principles of fair trade and focus our commercial actions around it
- Promote the non-discrimination, granting total respect to any kind of gender, nationality, native peoples and people of different political or religious convictions, generating relationships with suppliers and customers under these principles.
- Seek contantly to train and educate ourselves in matters related to sustainable tourism and contribute to maintain the respect for the cultures, customs and the biodiversity of the place where we carry out our tours, taking measures to minimize negative impacts to the community and nature.
We are convinced that it is everyone's responsibility to apply sustainable practics through our actions. Any action we realice brings with it an impact on nature and the societies. We should always be aware of the consequences of our actions and take responsibility for them in order to enjoy our planet today and let those who come tomorrow enjoy it.