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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




































