Build your perfect Santiago de Chile itinerary with these recommended visits to Santiago attractions, day trips to wineries in the Colchagua Valley, to UNESCO World Heritage city Valparaiso, and suggested Santiago neighborhoods and restaurants.
The home of Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet, is famous for its quirky art and eclectic layout. Neruda called his home in Santiago La Chascona, after his nickname for his lover Matilde Urrutia. Chascona means “tangled one,” a name he gave her because of her curly red hair.
We were pleased to wander the Bellavista neighborhood of Santiago de Chile where we’d lived many years ago and find that many of the shop and apartment walls were still covered with imaginative murals.
The town of Ushuaia, at the southern tip of Argentina, casts its gaze to the South across the Beagle Channel toward Antarctica. But there is plenty to do in Ushuaia and the nearby Tierra del Fuego National Park. Find museums, day hikes, spectacular scenery, fancy resorts and cozy-up food.
The Sacred Valley of Peru, nestled high in the Andes, offers a breathtaking tapestry of history, natural beauty, and spiritual enlightenment.
Some walls of the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman are all that remain after the Spanish carried off most of the fortress to build their homes and churches in Cusco.
Twenty travel stories from destinations and tour providers about reviving travel after the long impact of the pandemic. From start-up companies to major destinations, new initiatives speak to the future of travel.
Our land-based Galapagos tour informed us about the history of humans on the islands and the ongoing efforts to balance tourism with conservation. Still, we had plenty of time in and on the water and hiking in the interior.
Sunsets, seascapes, wildlife dominate the images we brought back from our land-based tour of the Galápagos Islands
We walked out a kilometer into the Chilean wine country from where we are staying in Santa Cruz to the Laura Hartwig vineyard to take the tour, but mostly, of course, to try the wines.
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