Santa Cruz, Chile Travel Blogs

Read only if you love wine!
Jan 6, 2009 (23 photos)

... Valley as possible and use this as a base to tour the neighbouring regions. We discovered a quaint little village called Santa Cruz which was 200 km south of Santiago which bordered the famous Colchagua Valley. The village was nothing special and its only ...

La Ruta de Vina
Jan 21, 2006 (8 photos)

... judgement on this topic. The natives' also appear to be quite optimistic with their economic prospects. The statistics I found state that Chile and Argentina have about the same per capita GDP (A little more than 25% of the US), but because Chile iis ...

Wine Tasting Chillean Style.
Apr 26, 2008 (50 photos)

... how to make a wine or two. Dad and I took of the day he got to Santiago and headed to Santa Cruz. The supposed wine making capital of Chile. Had prearranged some accommodation and a wine tour for the next day. We went out to dinner that night and sat ...

La Fiesta de La Vendimia
Mar 12, 2007 (7 photos)

What can I say: local food, folklore, wine, dances, fiestas, la creme´de la creme´of the Chilean society... plus me! It was an incredible day and such good fun. The wine was superb and the people good to look at!

Santa Cruz, Chile
Feb 4, 2007

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Santa Cruz
Mar 3, 2008 (9 photos)

... cannot just visit to taste. Some are hidden behind big closed gates with a guard. Quite a different experience. We were in Santa Cruz over a weekend which happened to have an outdoor film festival in the square. So we had dinner at a restaurant ...

SC in Chile
Oct 10, 2007

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where is that wine route???
Dec 15, 2008 (16 photos)

... farm in one of the wine areas of Chile.  So I hopped on yet another bus down to Santa Cruz, which is in the central  district of Chile in the Colchagua Province.  Finding accomodation was a bit of a challenge as there was nothing reasonably ...

Purpose
Jun 12, 2007

This is why I am here:  In class on Friday, I asked my fourth grade students, "What is a song?" A young boy excitedly started, before raising his hand, "A song is a poem from your heart!" Thank you Chile!

Canada Day
Jul 3, 2007 (3 photos)

... could have made wearing toques and eating poutine more Canadian would have been watching a hockey game instead of the Canada vs. Chile football match.  None-the-less, mi familia loved their first plate of greasy Quebecois cuisine, first joy of sticky ...

Santa Cruz, Chile
Mar 17, 2007

... the desk.  We have mixed reviews of this service.  Upon arriving in the afternoon we were able book a tour for the Santa Cruz vineyard (owner of the Santa Cruz hotel here).  You can charge the cost of the tour to the room as well as the ...

Father's Day
Jun 21, 2007 (5 photos)

One thing I never thought I would find in Chile is a dad - it's really nice to have one!    After a small sunny card and the softness of a tear, rolling its way down lines left by many years of smiling, over a sugarless cake made with love in ...

mi regalo favorite
Jul 11, 2007 (5 photos)

"¡estoy super contenta!" (I'm so happy), the only answer to Juan's "¿estas bien?"'s (you okay's), and the only words spoken as the wool toggles of my gurro (toque) baila (dance)  in the late afternoon air i'm rushing into on my ...

Wine and more wine
Sep 15, 2008 (15 photos)

... nbsp; Here we tried 3 wines including one of their top end wines that was excellent.  The next winery was Santa Emiliana vineyards.  They are known for their organic and biofriendly processing.  We walked around the grounds and our guide ...

¡FELIZ CUMPEAÑOS!
Jul 9, 2007 (10 photos)

... excitement and pisco sours that kept me up until quatro y media en la mañana (4:30am), but it was certainly my family back in Santa Cruz that made me forget how few winks I had!  I came home to a dark house, hearing hushed squeals of excitement ...

Santa Cruz, Chile
Nov 8, 2008 (2 photos)

We almost felt like we were at home passing Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and entering Santa Cruz! Santa Cruz is one of Chile´s many wine regions with more than 30 vineyards. We went to Montes and MontGras and as you can only imagine, we really enjoyed ...

All the wine I´ll be able to drink
May 23, 2007 (6 photos)

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Students of Santa Cruz
Jun 7, 2007 (5 photos)

... about being there because I am able to work with Leonor, the lovely woman who rescued me my first nights in Santa Cruz.  One thing that all of these schools have in common is that EVERYTHING is ALWAYS UNPREDICTABLE!!!!! I have ...

Santa Cruz, Chile
Nov 24, 2007

We drove from Santiago to Santa Cruz, Chile today - a trip of about 2-1/2 hours - very nice drive. Santa Cruz (SC) is in the wine producing country. Tomorrow we are visiting a vineyard. Tonight, we visited a private home where they make a fruit licquer ...

Afternoon at Vina Montes
Sep 16, 2008 (12 photos)

Today I spent most of the afternoon at Vina Montes.  I had a tour and wine tasting and then me and the couple from New York had lunch at their cafe there that has a great view to the hills behind the main building. 

Santa Cruz - Wine town supported by Arms Dealer
Feb 8, 2008

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Santa Cruz, Home Sweet Home
May 26, 2007 (5 photos)

... to see - climbed Cerro Pochoco, and worked in the government office of the Chilean Ministry of Education, I arrived in Santa Cruz.  I moved with another volunteer from Aysen, Mike from California, so we spent the morning meeting his new family ...

Viu Manet Winery
Dec 3, 2005 (3 photos)

After breakfasting at the Santa Cruz Plaza around the pool, we took off for Viu Manet Winery, a less-than-10-minute trip from the town of Santa Cruz. The horse-drawn carriages were awaiting our tour (yes, with surrey top!) and we were ready for a tour of ...

I´m in wine country
Sep 14, 2008 (2 photos)

I arrived late tonight in Santa Cruz, a relatively small town that I´m using as my base for the wine tours I have planned.  Unfortunately, by the time I got there there was hardly anything open to get something to eat but luckily there was a sandwich ...

Bottle Shock in Colchagua Valley
Oct 20, 2009 (14 photos)

...  This is a great property and the best place to stay in the Colchagua Valley.  Some people had recommended the Hotel Santa Cruz, part of the holdings of Carlos Cardoen, former arms dealer to Saddam's Iraqi regime.  An attached museum to the ...

Morning at Vina Viu Manent
Sep 17, 2008

I spent the morning at a winery called Viu Manent.  Since I don´t have my own car and the guided tour from the Wine Route is so expensive, I decided to just catch a bus out to the vineyard which worked out well.  I was only a ten minute walk from ...

A bit of a failure
Apr 20, 2005 (1 photos)

A shortish truck journey takes us to El Chalten, which has grown up purely for tourism and has no planniung laws so its a mess. Our main reason for being here is a chance to walk on and under a glacier. After a night out eating the biggest steak I´ve ...