A few suggestions to get the holiday planning process started
Explore the capital with a city tour of Santiago
14 days, from £5,660 to £9,030
Enjoy a walking tour around the pretty port city of Valparaiso
14 days, from £5,515 to £8,800
Enjoy a city tour of Santiago and ascend the Cerro Cristobal funicular
14 days, from £5,265 to £8,410
A long journey through southern Chile, a beautiful alternative to the north, a place to experience from October to April
15 days, from £4,500 to £6,160
A legendary journey: the detailed exploration of 'Rapa Nui' or Easter Island, the fabled land of the Moai
12 days, from £4,745 to £6,605
The Uyuni Salt Flats in an Airstream caravan: a road-trip in style, a travelling room with a view looking out onto Bolivia
14 days, from £7,395 to £10,270
Begin in Buenos Aires, the vibrant capital of Argentina, and end in Santiago, Chile’s dynamic and energetic capital
18 days, from £5,385 to £7,410
Tour the colourful barrios of Valparaiso
13 days, from £3,405 to £5,435
Chile is a paradise for outdoor enthusiasts, something our passionate team of experts can vouch for. They’ve journeyed from the salt flats in the north to Patagonia’s wilderness in the south, uncovering the best guesthouses and outdoor adventures along the way. If you’re craving a road trip, we know the crowd-free Carretera Austral inside out and can recommend national parks off the beaten track. While you’re away, our trusty in-country Concierge is on hand to help with hiking suggestions, winery visits, restaurant reservations and more.
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Who better to entrust with your Chile itinerary than our well-travelled South America experts? We’ll tailor your trip through the country’s winelands and snow-capped mountains, leaving room for plenty of tried-and-tested hiking, biking and white-water rafting trips. In-country tips and tricks are at your fingertips – just drop our clued-up Concierge a WhatsApp message, and they’ll eagerly answer your questions or recommendation requests (like where to find the best authentic moqueca).
Like a spine along the western seaboard of South America, Chile is over 2,500 miles long but never more than 150 miles at its widest point. And over this vast stretch are an extraordinary array of geographical contrasts, and correspondingly rich experiences. You’ll find the most arid region on the planet in the wonderful other-worldly Atacama desert, where flamingos breed in their thousands on shimmering salt flats. The Atacama Desert is also home to the extraordinary Valley of the Moon, a truly lunar landscape of wind-sculpted dunes which glow vermillion at sunset. The silence here is so profound that you can hear the salt crack in the rocks and the flamingos sipping in vivid blue lagoons. Then in the middle of all this emptiness, discover leaping llamas etched onto rocks thousands of years ago, and spouting geysers bubbling up from volcanic depths. There’s an ancient feel to this whole place, and the night skies are clearer than anywhere on the planet. Those clear skies also mean minimal rainfall, a concept close to inconceivable to the average Briton. Elsewhere, appropriately, there's one of the planet’s wettest regions, in the island of Chiloe, whose beautiful wooden churches are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In the north of the country, the snow-capped Andes Mountains are reflected in the still, silent lakes of the altiplano, but in the south, there are gushing waterfalls, deep fjords and the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego, half of which belongs to Chile. And in the middle? Forests and vineyards, and lush green countryside. It is these contrasts which make every stage of your trip to Chile totally different. And we haven’t even mentioned Easter Island yet!
Chile holidays are ideal for those who love adventure, in enormous, wild and mythical places. It’s for anyone curious enough to want to solve the mystery of the Moai sculptures on Easter Island. And for those who yearn for big experiences, you’ll find plenty of them in the Andes. In Patagonia, you’ll even find Mapuche people, whose indigenous traditions remain very much alive.
Chile is so extensive that it would take more than a lifetime to discover all its many secrets and marvels. Ideally, then, focus on one region. If that’s Santiago, you can experience this fashion and design capital from a stylish city slicker hotel. If you head to Atacama, you’ll discover the high altitude salt flats sitting at the feet of volcanoes from the privacy of a desert lodge: an adobe hideaway that blends seamlessly into the mountains. In Chilean Patagonia you’ll gaze out over the singular beauty of Ultima Esperanza Sound and the sharp peaks of Torres del Paine National Park, a world biosphere reserve. Amid the wine-growing slopes of Colchagua Valley you’ll stay in a hotel whose innovative architecture combines stone and wood to perfection. On Easter Island, 2,300 miles from the Chilean coast, you’ll discover the giant Moai statues, whose enigmatic gaze no one has so far been able to fathom. You might match your Chile experience with one of Argentina, for a more complete picture of Tierra del Fuego, or even to cross from the Pacific to the Atlantic. And for lovers of the Andes, how about the heady mix of Peru and Bolivia with Chile?
Some of the finest skiing in the Southern Hemisphere - there is quality skiing in the Andes, and we recommend resorts like Portillo and Valle Nevado which are knee-deep in powder from June to August.
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