Tailor-made Chile Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

Founded in 1541, Santiago pairs colonial relics with skyscrapers like the 300-metre Costanera Centre. The central Plaza de Armas is anchored by the Metropolitan Cathedral’s baroque towers and the presidential Palacio de la Moneda, where Salvador Allende’s 1973 bunker remains a historical flashpoint. Nearby, the Museo de Arte Precolombino preserves Chinchorro mummies—the world’s oldest mummified remains—and Mapuche chemamull funerary statues spanning 10,000 years.

San Pedro de Atacama sits at 2,400 metres in the world’s driest desert. The adobe mud ruins of Tulor and the Yerbas Buenas petroglyphs reveal 3,000 years of caravan history. Today, visitors navigate the Valle de la Luna’s salt-encrusted caves, witness El Tatio’s 80 geysers erupting at sub-zero dawn, and track Andean flamingos across the cobalt waters of the Miscanti and Miñiques alpine lagoons.

This 181,000-hectare biosphere reserve protects South America’s most dramatic glacial topography. The three central granite towers, sculpted by ice ages into 2,500-metre spires, loom over the iceberg-choked Grey Glacier and the suspension bridges of the French Valley. The 4-day, 60-kilometre W Trek routes hikers past calving ice sheets, active puma habitats, and wind-scoured ridges overlooking Lake Pehoé.