The hills of Valparaíso are home to what looks like a colourful patchwork shanty town; houses painted all the colours of the rainbow cling to t...
Written by Jessica Jones - 13.08.2010
Need to escape the city, but only have a day? Eager to update the crockery set, but short on cash? Feeling peckish, but can’t find anything th...
Written by Marie Drucker-Allister - 20.07.2010
Ever wonder what it would be like to walk through a forest of living fossil trees and imagine the dinosaurs that once roamed amongst them? Visi...
Written by Gabriel Morty Ortega - 19.06.2010
En la ciudad de Chillan, a una hora de Concepción en la octava región del Bio Bio se ubica este imponente y entretenido museo interactivo del ...
Written by Leonardo Moena - 20.05.2010
“Close the damn door, portero!” yells the man beside me at the inattentive gate-watcher, seconds after belching his beer-laden breath in my ...
Written by Kamille Go - 16.04.2010
Planning a trip to Southern Patagonia can be a little overwhelming. It’s far away so you want to make the distance worthwhile by seeing as ...
Written by Mary Lide Parker - 05.04.2010
Editor's Note: The following article was put on hold due to the damage suffered by the tourist attraction during the February 22 earthquake. Alt...
Written by Colin Bennett - 30.03.2010
If you’re on a 90-day tourist visa and your days are numbered, it’s time to go and visit the beautiful people. Don’t let anyone fool you i...
Written by Natasha Young - 14.01.2010
From the sand dunes of San Pedro de Atacama to the rocky peaks of Torres Del Paine, Chile overwhelms Santiagüinos with possible travel destinat...
Written by Christine Loftus - 22.12.2009
Wish lists, fake trees and stores overflowing with red and green tinsel since late September have seemingly transformed Christmas from a holiday...
Written by Christine Loftus - 16.12.2009
Pablo Neruda could not have more accurately described Chile when he said, “Night, snow, and sand compose the shape of my slender homeland.” ...
Written by Nadine Custis - 23.11.2009
One of the defining landscapes of Chile is the Atacama Desert. The driest desert in the world draws droves of tourists each year, but the sights...
Written by Meera Pandit - 16.11.2009
Should I turn left? Right? Keep plummeting forward into the mountain's dark insides? Any wrong turn and I could be trapped within the mine’s m...
Written by Christine Loftus - 16.11.2009
If Cerro San Cristobal's minimal hilltop National Zoo has left you wondering where Santiago's fauna has fled, head south to the spacious and col...
Written by Elaine Madrigal - 19.10.2009
One night at any of Barrio Estación’s pubs in Concepción is enough to understand why the city is widely known as the rock music capital of C...
Written by Murielle G. Oisel - 12.10.2009
Chilean Artist, illustrator and writer Elisa Assler stands in the bright, high-ceilinged reception room of hotel Cirilo Armstrong, her long red ...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 28.09.2009
La Quinta Vergara is best known as the site of the Festival de Viña (short for Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar) – one ...
Written by Silvia Viñas - 31.08.2009
Chile’s renowned poet Pablo Neruda showed an obvious bias for the ocean: two of his three houses are in the Quinta Region (aka the Valparaíso R...
Written by Silvia Viñas - 24.08.2009
I am ashamed to admit that I knew nothing about Chile before I arrived, except that I simply had to go to San Pedro de Atacama. I knew this beca...
Written by Shanna McGoldrick - 20.07.2009
Pucón, the famed Chilean adventure Mecca, sits regal on a vast lake above Patagonia, on the border of Chile’s wild Southern reaches. With tem...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 20.07.2009
For anyone wanting to escape the autumn smog-ball that is Santiago, there is only one thing to do: catch the next bus north to the fog-free para...
Written by Shanna McGoldrick - 06.07.2009
Turbans would surely have completed the look as we cantered up the sand dunes of Ritoque, in the spirit of Lawrence of Arabia or some other in...
Written by Charlie Mountford, Hattie Mills - 18.05.2009
Chileans clad in Andalusian waist jackets, flat wide-brimmed hats and traditional ponchos strode proudly around looking formidable at the famo...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 11.05.2009
In the lofty halls of Quintay winery Jimbo Innes stands next to a row of huge silver tanks, stirring a vat of warm smelly yeast. “My clothes g...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 19.04.2009
The snow has long since melted leaving the slopes a dusty and rocky sight, but one ski center still runs its lifts. Located some 30 kilometers...
Written by Colin Bennett - 10.04.2009
Even if you missed out on the spirited Vendimia wine festival in March, Chile’s outstanding Colchagua valley full of fragrant wineries, charmi...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 07.04.2009
Foul air, ambulance sirens, traffic jams and the sticky sweat of the metro all seem like they belong to another world when you’re in San Alfon...
Written by Natasha Young - 11.03.2009
With Pichilemu famed for its waves and pro surf competitions, I braced myself for pretentious surf shops, hot Australians everywhere and the fee...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 20.02.2009
Seventy-four miles from Santiago, the city of Valparaíso is home to a multitude of ascensores (funiculars). These vintage cabins on stilts jo...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 31.01.2009
Despite Santiago’s seductive nightlife scene, diverse weekly arts and cultural events and the many delectable gastronomic havens housed throug...
Written by Heather Teige - 26.12.2008
It’s a three-and-a-half-hour flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in Chile – home to about 150,000 residents, plus th...
Written by Margaret Brahm (editor@santiagotimes.cl) - 24.09.2008
Bumping along in our not-so-trusty four-wheel drive we curved and slipped down the icy streets of Valle Nevado, suddenly skidding to a halt as o...
Written by Kavita Bedford - 14.09.2008
At the southern tip of Chile, there is a coastal town called Punta Arenas. At the end of the nineteenth century, immigrants from all over Europe...
Written by Galen Brown - 05.07.2008
