Elqui Valley
A green valley of vineyards making pisco, beneath dry mountains, with some of the clearest skies in the world. Visit observatories at night and pisco distilleries by day.
Vicuña is the main town, an hour from La Serena.
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Historic sites
Valparaíso
Valparaíso
A colourful port city built on steep hills, a UNESCO site, with street art, old funicular lifts, and Pablo Neruda's house, La Sebastiana.
Attractions
Santiago and Cerro San Cristóbal
Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiago
Chile's capital, with the Andes behind. Ride the funicular up Cerro San Cristóbal for views, visit the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, La Chascon…
Natural features
Atacama Desert and San Pedro
Antofagasta
The driest non-polar desert in the world.
Tours and activities
Pucón and Villarrica Volcano
Pucón, La Araucanía
A lakeside adventure town beneath the snow-capped, active Villarrica volcano.
Natural features
Cochamó Valley
Cochamó, Los Lagos
Often called the Yosemite of South America: a valley of temperate rainforest, rivers and huge granite domes in northern Patagonia.
Historic sites
Chiloé Island churches
Castro, Los Lagos
A misty island with colourful wooden churches built by Jesuits, 16 of them UNESCO-listed, and palafitos, houses on stilts over the water in Castro.
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