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Cerro San Cristobal   Santiago

Cerro San Cristobal, Santiago

 32 Reviews  Cerro San Cristóbal is a hill in northern Santiago. It is 880 meters above sea level therefore about 300 meters over Santiago. It was named after St Christopher by the Spanish conquistadors because of... 

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Death Valley   San Pedro de Atacama

Death Valley, San Pedro de Atacama

 9 Reviews  I enjoyed this place so much I visited there 3 times: once for hiking, once on horseback and once for sandboarding. Most agencies will organize a hike of this place along with the tour for Valle de La... 

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Plaza de Armas   Santiago

Plaza de Armas, Santiago

 33 Reviews  The Plaza de Armas or city square has the same points of interest as Plazas de Armas world wide - it is the goverment and justice centre and the centre for worship. In Santiago this one of the few... 

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El Tatio geysers   San Pedro de Atacama

El Tatio geysers, San Pedro de Atacama

 14 Reviews  After visiting the geysers there is nothing better to do than a re-invogorating soak in the thermal pools which are delightfully warm. So don't forget your bathing suit and a towel. Also be prepared... 

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Cerro Santa Lucia   Santiago

Cerro Santa Lucia, Santiago

 35 Reviews  The expedition to the Kingdom of Chile led by Pedro de Valdivia came to the Central Valley in December 1540. After exploring the vicinity of Mapocho river, on December 13th, 1540, the expedition... 

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Moon Valley   San Pedro de Atacama

Moon Valley, San Pedro de Atacama

 22 Reviews  An interesting area with stones and sand formations that per millenia the floods and the winds have given it a series of colors and texture to the desert, it presents an extraordinary attractive by... 

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Cajon del Maipo   Santiago

Cajon del Maipo, Santiago

 11 Reviews  My friend and I booked the "wine tour" package at Cascada de las Animas, an eco-tourism resort in the Cajón del Maipo. The wine tour includes transportation to / from Santiago, a tour of the Concha y... 

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Atacama salt flat   San Pedro de Atacama

Atacama salt flat, San Pedro de Atacama

 9 Reviews  The Salar de Atacama is the second largest salt flat in the world, after the much larger Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It is surrounded by mountains and volcanos, and is part of the Los Flamencos Natural... 

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La Moneda   Santiago

La Moneda, Santiago

 27 Reviews  La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile and houses the offices of three cabinet ministers. It was originally built as the colonial mint with construction starting in 1784. The... 

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Quitor   San Pedro de Atacama

Quitor, San Pedro de Atacama

 5 Reviews  Pukará de Quitor (Fort of Quitor) is located 3 Kms. from San Pedro, over the hill of Quitor. This Pukará was build by the atacameño people to defend themself from other towns that inhabited... 

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Mercado Central.   Santiago

Mercado Central., Santiago

 13 Reviews  Santiago's Mercado Central was opened on September 15th, 1872, by President Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, to house the Palace of Arts. Its construction took ten years, as the metalwork was made in... 

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Caves   San Pedro de Atacama

Caves, San Pedro de Atacama

 3 Reviews  When we took a tour which combined the Death Valley, Moon Valley and Quebrada de Kari I didn´t really know what this part of the tour would be like. It is a relatively recent addition to some of the... 

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Metropolitan Cathedral   Santiago

Metropolitan Cathedral, Santiago

 15 Reviews  The site for the cathedral of Santiago was nominated as far back as 1541. Construction of the current church was started in 1748 and it was consecrated in 1775. The facades were added in 1780 nad by... 

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P. Le Paige museum   San Pedro de Atacama

P. Le Paige museum, San Pedro de Atacama

 5 Reviews  The famous “mummies” (actually they are very well preserved bodies) were removed from the Museum´s exhibition in May 2007, due to a demand from the Lickanantay (local natives) community. This demand... 

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Las Chascona (Pablo Neruda's House)   Santiago

Las Chascona (Pablo Neruda's House), Santiago

 11 Reviews  La Chascona is one of Pablo Neruda's residences. You can only explore the house on a guided tour but it's worth paying for. The house has a nautical theme throughout and the name, La Chascona, is... 

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Iglesia De San Francisco   Santiago

Iglesia De San Francisco, Santiago

 12 Reviews  A little bit further along the big and busy Avenido Libertador Bernardo O'Higgings, you can se the oldest church of the city : The Iglesia San Francisco. This Iglesia San Francisco dated from the... 

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Museo de Bellas Artes   Santiago

Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago

 9 Reviews  Unfortunately, I couldn't visit the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes because I happened to be in downtown Santiago on a Monday, the only day the museum's not open. However, I did make a short detour to... 

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Casa Colorada   Santiago

Casa Colorada, Santiago

 8 Reviews  The Casa Colorada, built in 1769, is one of the most nicely preserved colonial buildings in Santiago. Again, not only has it survived the city's extreme modernization, it also made it through several... 

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Skiing   Santiago

Skiing, Santiago

 13 Reviews  How to get there: Toma la autopista urbana Costanera Norte, después Av. Kennedy y luego Av. Las Condes hasta el camino a Farellones. Sigue hasta la curva 40 y toma el desvío a Valle Nevado, desde... 

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Museo Pre Columbian   Santiago

Museo Pre Columbian, Santiago

 11 Reviews  I highly recommend visiting this excellent museum with a large collection and detailed explanations (in English too) of the Pre-Colombian art and treasures of ancient cultures of South America, Mexico... 

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Vin del Mar   Santiago

Vin del Mar, Santiago

 4 Reviews  COMO LLEGAR En Santiago, la capital chilena, los buses hacia Viña del Mar se abordan en el terminal Alameda, en la avenida que lleva el mismo nombre. Los vehículos salen cada 15 minutos y el costo del... 

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Puerto Montt   Santiago

Puerto Montt, Santiago

 5 Reviews  Puerto Montt is a relatively new city in Chilean colonial history. It was founded by German colonists in 1853 and named after Manuel Montt, President of Chile between 1851 and 1861. The city is... 

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Valparaiso   Santiago

Valparaiso, Santiago

 2 Reviews  Valparaíso is one of the most important Chilean harbours, and is the see of Chilean Congress. The picture shows some pelicans near the harbour. Valparaíso es uno de los puertos más importantes de... 

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Day/week trips/port stops

by Wingtips

We booked custom tours through Santiago Adventures, and certainly highly recommend them to everyone, whether you want to tour in Santiago or go farther afield. We did 3 three tours plus a pick-up at the airport, customized for different sized groups as we assembled over a period of 3 days. Private cars and vans.Highly recommend their ideas for touring as they take you not only where you request, but to places they think you'd like based on your input. We went to places the locals go to, and to restaurants the locals go to for genuine cuisine.We wished we had more time for the Colchagua Valley wine estates, but did go to a local Santiago winery. A great trip was out to the coastal city of Zapallar, for lunch on the beach, viewing penquins, etc. Went through farms and a national park-native palm preserve on the way. Finally, all 10 of us had a tour of Viña del Mar and Valparaiso prior to...

All day dining

by TheWanderingCamel

The star attraction of Valdivia's fish market are undoubtedly the monster sealions that wait patiently for the scraps of fish that come their way all day as the vendors clean and trim their way through the piles of fish and seafood on their stalls. Lined up behind the stall, each with their own station, the sealions just sit and wait, and rarely miss a single piece that comes their way as the men at work fling the scraps behind them into the river.You'll see more weird and wonderful varieties of the sea's bounty here than just about anywhere. If it lives in the sea, Chileans will find some way to use it. Fish, shellfish, crustaceans, kelp, lots of it quite unidentifiable, some of it, it has to be said, to the uninitiated - most unappetising - it's all here. The mountains of mussels, clams and crabs, gleaming fresh fish straight from the sea all looked wonderful to this seafood lover....

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Valdivia

by TheWanderingCamel

The modern buildings and wide streets of Valdivia may not make this the most picturesque of cities, but for all that Valdivia's an attractive town. Your firststop is almost certain to be the Mercado Fluvial, down by the river - a lively and colourful scene with fish stalls on the river side and piles of fresh produce on the other, lit ny a rosy glow from the red and yellow awnings that protect the buyers and sellers alike from the sun - and the rain that's all to often falling here.Always of strategic importance, the town was, for the few hundred years of its existance, a major link in Chile's defences of its southern possessions - a military outpost on the edge of the country. Early 20th century immigration from Europe saw large numbers of Germans settle here in the wake of the "Pacification" of the Mapuche - ie their land was taken from them and they were removed to reservations,...

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Volcan Villarrica

by TheWanderingCamel

Although the rain and mist that are so prevalent in Chile's Lake District weren't around whilst we were there, it was very overcast most of the time. We were lucky enough to get a perfect view of the volcano on the evening we arrived but after that it was pretty much hidden by clouds. That wasn't enough to stop us venturing up the mountainside though without any intention of going much further than the road could take us. 4000 feet up and very early in the morning, we stepped out of the car into a frosty world of snow and icy, slippery mud ... not our sort of walking weather at all.The volcano is a designated National Park with an entrance fee of CH$2000. The road up to the ski centre - that's as far as it goes - takes you up the northern face of the volcano, through thick forest until you reach the upper slopes of bleak lava and snow. You'll pass through the park entrance halfway up to...

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Los ripios

by TheWanderingCamel

Driving or hiking the back roads -ripios in Chile can be a real pleasure. With only a few days at our disposal we still managed to get off the highway quite a bit and found ourselves in beautiful countryside, with wonderful views and vistas around just about every corner. Following the Rio Bio Bio valley out of Concepcion and back to the Pan American Highway was a winding drive that took us though small villages and wooded farmland, with the river nearly always in our sight. Further south the landscape became even more beautiful, with the Andes running parallel to the highway, the roadside brilliant with the gold of broom and the flaming scarlet of notro - Chilean fire tree. Mountains and lakes, deep forests and green fields - it just kept getting better, and as we ventured further south and took to even smaller roads, emptier and empter until we felt we had the whole place to...

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Driving south

by TheWanderingCamel

With just five days and a hire car at our disposal to spend seeing something of Chile, we knew we had to strike a balance between seeing and doing as much as we could and having time to enjoy ourselves. This was a holiday after all. Coming from Australia, long distances didn't faze us but we had no idea of what the road conditions or traffic would be like and only the vaguest idea of what we would find as we headed south. We decided that if we spent our first night in Chillan (400km), then make our way to Villarica(350km) for two nights, we'd have a full day to explore the countryside between Villarica and Valdivia (120 km from Villarica) before we headed north again. Where we'd spend our last night was a decision to be made later, once we'd had some idea of what the region offered. As it happened, we returned to Chillan - we'd liked the hotel and its restaurant and we'd arrived too late...

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Going to Paradise

by TheWanderingCamel

That's the literal translation of Valparaiso - va al paraiso - to go to Paradise. That may be taking things a bit far but there can be no denying that the old port city possesses enormous charm and character.An hour and a half by bus from Santiago, Valparaiso is as different from the capital as you could possibly imagine. Built on steep hills around a wide and beautiful bay, this is Chiles’s second city and her most important port. Before the transcontinental railway opened up a short route from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of the United States, and then the Panama Canal made the long sea route around Cape Horn unnecessary, Valaparaiso was a hugely important port and her safe harbour must have been a welcome sight indeed to those who had made the long journey right around the bottom of South America. The city expanded and grew rich during the Californian Gold Rush but a huge...

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Torres del Paine National Park

by Robmj

The Torres del Paine National Park is an absolute ripper!, you need to go there. This place is a trampers/treking paradise, a place of natural beauty.From my perspective, treking the renown"W" was an amazing experience,check out my story & details of it from my Chile main page from my web link below.

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continue... Laguna San Rafael -part 2

by elsadran

Next day was the... Great Event of our Entering the San Rafael Lagoon...When the most dramatic..moment came all of us having gathered up on the deck were watching with due respect the people standing up, and the Chileans singing the Chilean National Anthem probably having taken in such a rejuvenating breath of the beauty of Nature that they were deservedly proud of their beautiful country !!It was indeed a glorious moment but the great Miracle ..was going to happen just on the last moment. Because the fiesta would be over if the weather didn't get better. We were in a blurred dark picture and with no possibility to ride the small boats for a breathtaking ride very near the glacier and having a better feeling of the magnificence of this ice frozen crystal blue wall !!! Just then the clouds started scattering away and patches of last light rays came through the dark clouds. Nice pictures,...

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Santiago: Cerro Santa Lucia

by coccinella169

Another hill in Santiago, it is smaller than Cerro San Cristóbal though. It is located right in the centre, close to the national library . On the foot of it, you`ll find the Centro de Exposición de arte indigena - a collection of arts and crafts of Chile`s indigenious population. There are pretty baroque staircases leading up the hill to some kind of a spanish fort. Strangely you have to sign the visitor´s book with name and passport number before entering the park - so you should have your documents with you. There are nice terasses, fountains and viewing points and even a monument dedicated to Mapuche. An about 80 year old guy in Frutillar told me that Cerro Santa Lucia is the point for snogging in Santiago :)) - and indeed people hardly go there alone :). There is also a most romantic little tower on that spanish fort. Right across the street from Cerro Santa Lucia is an art and...

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Q:  Hi, I am hoping to catch the night bus to Puno from Santiago. My flight leaves gets in at noon and I hear the bus usually... 

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A: You aren't going to Puno if you are going south from Santiago, maybe Pucón? Take an airport bus to one of the bus stations, Terminal Santiago will have the most buses... 

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