Chile in a week
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Isla Negra ?
The map of your stay "Chile in a week"
Detail of the stay : Chile in a week
How to get there - Isla Negra
Arrival in Santiago
Steps: Isla Negra
Visit the Bellavista neighborhood, the Chascona(Neruda's house), and two or three other sights.
Places of interest : CASA MUSEO ISLA NEGRA
Transfer to the North or South
Steps: Valparaíso
Envol for Calama and transfer for San Pedro de Atacama. Visit of the village.
Or flight for Punta Arenas and transfer for Puerto Natales.
Or bus for Valparaíso, discover the city, the Sebastiana, the hills.
Places of interest : LA SEBASTIANA
Salar de Atacama / Torres del Paine National Park / Valparaíso
Steps: Isla Negra
Visit to the Atacama salt flats and the altiplanic lagoons.
Or (in the south) transfer to Torres del Paine National Park, discovery of the site by car, night on site.
Or (near Valparaíso), car rental, direction Isla Negra (last house of Neruda) then Rancagua, Curicó, Talca and Chillán. Night in Las Trancas, near Chillán.
Valley of the Moon / Torres del Paine National Park / Pucón
Steps: Valle De La Luna
Visit of the geysers and the valley of the Moon.
Or visit the Torres del Paine National Park, small trek, catamaran to the glacier. Overnight stay or transfer back to Puerto Natales.
Or (always by car), direction Pucón. Night on the spot.
Azapa Valley / Punta Arenas/Pucon
Steps: Valle De Azapa
Return to Calama, flight to Arica. Discovery of the city, its beaches and the Azapa Valley by car.
Or transfer to Punta Arenas and flight to Puerto Montt. Transfer to Puerto Varas.
Or visit the surroundings of Pucon (climb the Villarrica volcano, or trek in the Huerquehue national park, in all cases thermal baths in the evening). Night in Pucon.
The Cordillera/Puerto Varas
Steps: Putre
Departure of Arica for the Cordillera, visit the précolombiens villages, the Inca ruins, night in Putre.
Or discover Puerto Varas region, its lakes, waterfalls and volcanoes.
Or departure from Pucón for Puerto Varas in the morning via the route of the seven lakes. Night in Puerto Varas.
Laguna Chungará / Chiloé / Puerto Varas
Steps: Arica
Visit of the sumptuous Chungará lagoon, the surrounding villages, then return to Arica in the evening.
Or a quick visit of Chiloé by leaving early in the morning (with agency or rental car, Ancud and its penguins, Castro and its churches), return to Puerto Varas in the evening.
Or discover the region of Puerto Varas, its lakes, its waterfalls, its volcanoes.