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SANTIAGO
3 - 5 day programs FROM $170, including city tour details and rates
The city is a cosmopolitan capital shaped with a colorful history of conquerors, immigrants, industrials and politicians. A continental atmosphere prevails over this busy city, wrapping itself around every stylishly-dressed resident sipping "espressos" at street-side cafés. Centuries of various influences, have made Santiago a metropolis filled of modern buildings, monuments and Museums, vibrant markets, gourmet restaurants, shopping areas, gardens and parks. In fact, Santiago contains 40% of Chile’s population and is far the financial, educational, and cultural center of the country.

Santiago bustles with nearly five million people. Architectural styles range from European styles to Colonial mansions, from modern skyscrapers to utilitarian boxy structures. In the springtime, with new leaves on the trees, fresh breezes airing out the city, and snow-covered mountains looming to the east, Santiago is a pleasant and entertaining city.

The center of Santiago’s history lies on the Santa Lucia Hill, where the conqueror Pedro de Valdivia arrived in 1540 and decided to establish the city, since then it has grown and prospered, blossoming into a capital of culture and commerce.

MAIPO CANYON AND CONCHA Y TORO WINEYARD
Half day tour itinerary and rates
Located about 20 km south downtown Santiago at the mouth of the Cajón de Maipo (Maipo Canyon), lies the heart of Chile’s wine production. This region boasts a nearly ideal climate for winemaking, with well-drained volcanic, fluvial soils and high level of solar radiation. It’s possible to visit well-known wineries, being Concha y Toro the most famous (founded in 1883), where the visitor can enjoy exquisite Chilean wines, as well as visiting Pirque Valley with its old ranches and agriculture fields.

VIÑA DEL MAR AND VALPARAISO
Full day itinerary and rates
Valparaiso is the main port of Chile, located 124 kms from Santiago, in the central coast region,.Valparaiso was founded in 1525 by Juan de Saavedra and enjoys a Mediterranean climate in a city of great commerce and steep hills. Considering that the city is at the merger of 7 hills, with streets up and down, back and forth, crossing and re-crossing, staircases, passages, alleyways, funiculars and "ascensores", it is a Must to visit.

A strong English influence can be felt in Valparaiso, because after the Independence, Britain became one the Chile’s most important partners, since most of the vessels that crossed the Cape Horn had to stop in this port to load water, food, coal, etc, plus exportation products of Chile. After the opening of the Panama Channel in 1914, Valparaiso Port started to lose international traffic, however, in the last 25 years a new era of exchange of products between the Pacific Basin Countries has allowed Valparaiso to maintain its importance.

Viña del Mar is a beach resort that was founded by Ismael Vergara, originally as a wine plantation, but due to its location near to Valparaiso port and Santiago and its white-sand beaches, Viña del Mar changed the original plan to a resort city. In these days, Viña del Mar is one of the most popular seaside resorts, a glittering city designed as an ideal spot for refreshing breaks, week-ends, holidays and summer vacation periods for everyone. Viña del Mar offers varied architecture, great shopping, exciting nightlife, gourmet and seafood restaurants, museums, a gambling casino plus some of the most beautiful landscaped gardens in Chile.

CENTRAL COAST TOUR & NERUDA’S ISLA NEGRA
Full day itinerary and rates
This is an excursion to visit the Coast from Algarrobo with its fertile valleys for agriculture, colonial villages and exclusive beach resorts, as well as the house of Pablo Neruda, Chile’s second winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. He is also thought to be one of the most-read writers in human history. In the Museum of Isla Negra it is possible to see several original Neruda’s manuscripts.

SANTA CRUZ PLAZA HOTEL - WINE ROUTE
2 days/1 night FROM $ 385 itinerary and rates
The Santa Cruz Plaza Hotel is an attractive place to stay in order to visit important museums which contain unique collections in the world. You can also enjoy the tours through the wine yards, tasting the exquisite wines of the Colchagua Valley and submerge yourself in the roots of our countries culture.

HOTEL DEL MAR - VIÑA DEL MAR
3 days/2 nights itinerary and rates
Viña del Mar, also known as the Flower Garden City, is 110 km (only 1 hour and 15 minutes) from Santiago, Chile's capital. The natural beauty of its surroundings with ideal climate, cultural and artistic activities throughout the year and the human warmth of its residents make it Chile's main tourist city.

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