Chile Travel Tips
From salty-desert top to glacier-crowded bottom, Chile is a jaw-dropping reminder of nature's beauty and power. This narrow trickle of a country is jammed with enough geysers, mountains, beaches, forests and volcanoes to keep adventure nuts slavering for a lifetime.
Chile's mountainous geography spanning over 30° of latitude makes for some strange climatic variation.
Valparaiso Tours from Santiago
Chile is one of South America’s most diverse, stable and prosperous countries, and Valparaiso exemplifies all of these. From its rich, European-influenced cultural heritage to its bustling seaport, ... Continue Reading »
Santiago Suggested Itineraries
Despite its location in South America, Santiago has a distinctly European feel, from its neoclassical architecture to its efficient metro system, Santiago is one of South America’s most ... Continue Reading »
AIREBUENOS HOSTEL and PERACULTURAL
This hostel was EXCELLENTE!!! Would definitely recommend if you're staying in Valdivia, Chile. The staff was very friendly and even loaned us a coat when our luggage got left behind en route to ... Continue Reading »
Air Service At Last to Chile's Chiloé Island
As the Chilean coastline plunges south toward the Antarctic, it begins to fray into glacier-carved fjords and rain-forested islands, beginning with the Chiloé Archipelago. All but lost in ... Continue Reading »
Chilean Art on the Move: Traveling Light
Visitors to Santiago with a taste for more modern offerings have plenty to enjoy: MAVI, the Museum of Visual Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, the free Museo Ralli, and finally, Sculpture Park, ... Continue Reading »
Chile Tops the Travel Charts
Though 2011 is still young, it’s already been an excellent year for Chile’s rapidly expanding travel industry. This is awards season in tourism, and Chile has scored top spots on two of the world’s ... Continue Reading »
Isla Salas y Gomes
Not far from enigmatic Easter Island is another, lesser known island paradise, long uninhabited and a safe haven for the wildlife that has been all but exhausted around its more famous neighbor. ... Continue Reading »
New Visitors Center in Easter Island
Though Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile in is the most remote inhabited island in the world, more than five hours by air from the nearest continent, some 50,000 tourists arrived in 2010—compared to ... Continue Reading »
Puerto Williams Opening Up to Increased Antarctic Travel
For decades, Puerto Williams, Chile, and Ushuaia , Argentina have vied for the title of “world’s southernmost city.” While Puerto Williams is slightly farther south, it has only 2,000 residents ... Continue Reading »
Rodeo Season Kicks Off in Chile
The 18th of September is Chilean Independence Day, merely one highlight of a month-long celebration known as Mes de la Patria, Month of the Fatherland. Visitors will enjoy parades, flag-waving, ... Continue Reading »
Teatro del Lago
Frutilla’s top attraction is the Teatro del Lago (Theater of the Lake), which offers outstanding entertainment year-round, most famously Semanas Musicales (Musical Weeks), a ten-day classical music ... Continue Reading »
The Dakar Rally's Path through Chile
The world’s wildest motorsport race just finished and announced its winners! Racers crossed the Andes into Chile on January 6th beneath the watchful cone of the world’s highest volcano, Nevado Ojos ... Continue Reading »
Things to Do in the Atacama Desert in Chile
The driest spot in the world is Chile’s Atacama Desert, which receives less than a single millimeter of rainfall per year. This starkly beautiful landscape of endless salt flats and denuded hills ... Continue Reading »
Top 5 Tips for Puerto Montt
Lake Llanquihue Circuit & Osorno Volcano Starting in Puerto Montt, you will discover and know the natural beauty of the Southern Lake District by driving around Chile's largest lake. ... Continue Reading »
Visiting Antarctica from Chile
Today, about 40,000 tourists visit the Antarctica annually, with perhaps 300 travelers (in addition to some 250 scientists and support staff) making it to the South Pole every year. There, they’ll ... Continue Reading »
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