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- Santiago
- Capital
- Chilean Peso (CLP)
- Currency
- 15,328,467
- Population
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Chile Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chile
Wasn't that a Starbucks?
This is a top pick! Not that I am getting homesick or anything, but if you want a slice of the so-called "American lifestyle" while out travelling, the trick is to head to a big city (preferably a capital city). Then just ask your way to the posh neighborhood in town. You ...
Stones and Shadows
This is a top pick! ... right into the hands of those who visit it. Rapa Nui's extraordinary isolation means that only accessible from two airports-Santiago, Chile and Papeete, Tahiti. Usually only a flight a day lands there, carrying at most 300 and some people. Outside of ...
Class 3: Take 3
This is a top pick! ... the border into Peru. Please can you send us a postcard? Yes, we will send you a postcard from where we are now in Arica, Chile. Postcards can take quite a long time to arrive from Chile to the UK. When you come back can you come and show us some ...
Santiago- and the discovery of Pisco Sour
This is a top pick! ... - lamb shanks! - Robs fav so very happy boy. Back to the hotel by midnight at we are now officially operating on Chile time. Breakfast at 8am, packed our bags up and stored them for the night and caught the metro to the bus terminal to catch the ...
Parque Pumalin
This is a top pick! ... . After an hour or so, we stop at the entrance to the free park and Nicholas (who was brough up in USA, Chile, and Canada) explains a little about how the park came to be. The American Douglas Tomkins who formed Esprit and North Face is enormously ...
Dom, Kev, Tordo and Blancita discover Patagonia
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 262 Temperature : 15 degrees Weather : Very mixed We have had a fantastic two more days of riding in the estancia. Paola, Kev and I, along with our horses, plus an extra horse packed with picnic gear and food for the Puesto, headed ...
Chilean Warmth
This is a top pick! ... . As we exchanged stories about our lives and dreams, I felt filled with gratitude for such a great introduction to Chile. Spending time with Vanessa and others has definitely put the magic back in my carpet ...
Playing the trumpets all night!
This is a top pick! ... San Pedro de Atacama. No more bumps, no more drunk drivers, already we weren't sad to leave Bolivia. The border formalities in Chile are slow and the queues are long. In the final stretch our bus driver lets two full coaches overtake and are therefore ...
The most remote island on Earth...SMASH!!!
This is a top pick! Our LAN flight took about 5hours and apart from eating our in-flight meal we slept all the way. We arrived to a very dark Easter Island at 6.30am (we later found out that sunrise is about 8.30am and sunset is 10pm at this time of year – Andrew ...
Antarctica Day1 - Beagle Channel
This is a top pick! As I am writing these few lines, our boat, the Lyubov Orlova, is slowly exiting the Beagle Channel heading into Drake's Passage, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Pacific Oceans. We are about 1 hour away from the critical point and the boat is ...
Spanish Carpentry
This is a top pick! In the words of the late, great food-dodger Karen Carpenter Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down. Fortunately it wasn't raining this Monday as I purchased my ticket to ride the bus to the airport in Auckland. I wasn't sure ...
The Wind and the Wine and the Pee
This is a top pick! We had our own quiet, little, private room for the first night in Puerto Natales. A handy shared bathroom was right next to us. At 5:30 AM the quiet went away and the bathroom became pee central. A constant flow of ...
Thinking of one
This is a top pick! ... spotted seals on rocks. Campbell met up with some kids that he met at church and they spent the late afternoon talking about Chile and Australia. Tuesday the kids and I took the bus to Valparaiso. Valparaiso is an old port that was established in ...
Slowly getting settled
This is a top pick! After a full day and a full night on Delta airlines, I landed here in Chile on Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. local time (two hours more than east coast time). The next two days were spent on orientation-information sessions and lectures on security with ...
Caves, Waves and Campsite Raves
This is a top pick! We woke up to the usual heavenly noises of the large waves breaking across the rocks in front of the tent for our last day full day in Easter Island. We had a slightly different breakfast this morning as we had ..... breakfast, well we shared a yogurt. ...
Gaucho living
This is a top pick! ... guide at the estancia. We had arrived in Puerto Natales on the previous day, after an uneventful bus journey across the border into Chile. We’d used our time in PN to get some cash from the ATM’s, get some food shopping for the next few ...
Photos from the Puerto Montt Harbor
This is a top pick! Puerto Montt is a cool, authentic port town in Patagonian Chile and basically the last stop before the southern tip of Chile. I booked the Navimag ferry for a four day cruise through the Chilean fjords and spent a ...
low impact living???
This is a top pick! ... feelings...the nastiness in the water is disappointing and in contrast to their beauty. I am surprised that in a place like Chile, and in a vacation seafront town, there wouldn't be more of an effort to take care of the trash. Got to ...
Fuera de la Tierra
This is a top pick! ... suitcases through an "unsafe" part of town. But, he said, that was one of the few times he felt like he was in Chile. And Valparaiso is that way. Perhaps we carry a preconception of South American cities should be hectic and dirty, a web of narrow ...
Doin' the "W"
This is a top pick! ... 're are coming along), so should be a good group. Next update will be back in Argentina after our little Chilean side trip. Chile, here in particular is EXPENSIVE, although complete with all the comforts of home. Anyway, only here for a few days so until ...
Back to the Future
This is a top pick! After a 40 hour day (Santiago is 16 hours behind Auckland) we arrived in Santiago. As sad as it may seem Kevin and me were particularly excited by the fact that we actually arrived in Santiago before we even got to the airport in Auckland and get to say ...
The tiny isolated hamlet of Puerto Eden
This is a top pick! Puerto Eden is a tiny isolated maritime hamlet in the middle of the Chilean fjords. The only way to get to this picturesque little cluster of tin houses and peeling boats is by the weekly ferry - and we had the opportunity to come ashore while the ...
1st day going South
This is a top pick! We boarded our minibus at 9am for the first leg of our trip south. In total we expect to be 7 days before getting back to Santiago. There were about 11 of us on the bus including :- Niall, Colm & Kate from Ireland Catherine & Alex from Wales Leoni ...
