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Parque Nacional Pali Aike
Rugged volcanic steppe pocked with craters, caves and twisted formations, Pali Aike means devils country in Tehuelche. This desolate landscape is a 50-sq-km park along the Argentine border. Mineral content made lava rocks red, yellow or green-gray. Fauna includes abundant guanaco,
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Parque Nacional Villarrica
This national park is one of the most popular in the country because of its glorious mix of volcanoes and lakes. Its proximity to Pucón makes Villarrica accessible for everyone - from bus trippers to climbers, skiers and hardcore hikers. The parks highlights are the three volcanoes
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Cerro Paranal Observatory
In the world of high-powered telescopes, where rival institutes jostle to claim the biggest, most powerful or most technologically advanced specimens, Paranal is right up there with the big boys. This groundbreaking observatory has a Very Large Telescope (VLT) consisting of an arra
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Parque del Estrecho de Magallanes
Two national monuments make up Parque Historia Patagonia. Founded in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Ciudad del Rey don Felipe was one of Spains most inauspicious and short-lived South American outposts. Its inhabitants struggled against the elements and starved to death at what
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Cerro San Cristóbal
The best sweeping views over Santiago are from the peaks and viewpoints of the Parque Metropolitano , better known as Cerro San Cristóbal. At 722 hectares, the park is Santiagos largest green space, but its still decidedly urban: a funicular carries you between different landscaped
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Reserva Nacional Pingüino de Humboldt
Pods of bottle-nosed dolphins play in the waters of this national reserve, while slinky sea otters slide off boulders and penguins waddle along the rocky shoreline – keeping their distance from sprawling sea-lion colonies. The 888-hectare reserve embraces three islands on the borde
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Reserva Nacional Radal Siete Tazas
The upper basin of the Río Claro marks the beginning of the ecological transition between the drought-tolerant Mediterranean vegetation to the north and the moist evergreen forests to the south. Here, 78km southeast of Curicó along a narrow gravel road, lies the Reserva Nacional Ra
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Parque Nacional Torres del Paine
Soaring almost vertically more than 2000m above the Patagonian steppe, the granite pillars of Torres del Paine (Towers of Paine) dominate the landscape of what may be South Americas finest national park. Before its creation in 1959, the park was part of a large sheep estancia, and
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Maunga Terevaka
Maunga Terevaka is the islands highest point (507m). This barren hill is only accessible on foot or on horseback and is definitely worth the effort as it offers sensational panoramic views.
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La Confluencia
Dont miss this dramatic viewpoint, where Chiles most powerful river, the Baker, froths into a broad, behemoth cascade before merging with the milkier, glacial-fed Río Nef in a swirling contrast of mint and electric blue. Its 12km south of Puerto Bertrand. Park roadside and follow t
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Museo Regional de Ancud
The excellent Museo Regional Aurelio Bórquez Canobra, casually referred to as Museo Chilote, offers fantastic displays tracking the history of the island, including a full-sized replica of the Ancud, which sailed the treacherous fjords of the Strait of Magellan to claim Chiles sout
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Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Exquisite pottery from most major pre-Columbian cultures is the backbone of Santiagos best museum, the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. As well as dozens of intricately molded anthropomorphic vessels, star exhibits include hefty Maya stone stele and a fascinating Andean textile
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Iglesia Santa María de Loreto
Achaos 18th-century Jesuit church, Iglesia Santa María de Loreto, on the south side of the Plaza de Armas, is Chiloés oldest (1740) and also a Unesco World Heritage site. Crowned by a 25m tower, it has alerce shingles and is held together by wooden pegs rather than nails. The churc
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Anakena
Beach bums in search of a place to wallow will love this picture-postcard-perfect, white-sand beach. It also forms a perfect backdrop for Ahu Nau Nau , which comprises seven moai, some with topknots. On a rise south of the beach stands Ahu Ature Huki and its lone moai, which was re
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Cementerio Municipal
Among South America’s most fascinating cemeteries, with both humble immigrant graves and flashy tombs, like that of wool baron José Menéndez, a scale replica of Rome’s Vittorio Emanuele monument, according to Bruce Chatwin. See the map inside the main entrance gate.It’s an easy 15-
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Centro de Visitantes Inmaculada Concepción
Dont even think about visiting Chiloés Unesco churches without first stopping in at this excellent museum housed in the former Convento Inmaculada Concepción de Ancud (1875). Its home to wooden scale models of all 16 churches, which show the workings of the intricate interior woodw
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Ahu Tongariki
The monumental Ahu Tongariki has plenty to set your cameras flash popping. With 15 imposing statues, it is the largest ahu ever built. The statues gaze over a large, level village site, with ruined remnants scattered about and some petroglyphs nearby; some figures include a turtle
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Iglesia San Francisco de Castro
Italian Eduardo Provasoli chose a marriage of neo-Gothic and classical architecture in his design for the elaborate Iglesia San Francisco, one of Chiloés Unesco gems and finished in 1912 to replace an earlier church that burned down (which had replaced an even earlier church that h
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Museo de Sitio Colón 10
See the 32 excavated Chinchorro mummies in situ at this tiny museum below El Morro. They were discovered when an architect bought this former private home with the intention of converting it into a hotel. You can gape at the glass-protected bodies as they were found, in the sand be
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Rano Raraku
Known as the nursery, the volcano of Rano Raraku, about 18km from Hanga Roa, is the quarry for the hard tuff from which the moai were cut. Youll feel as though youre stepping back into early Polynesian times, wandering among dozens of moai in all stages of progress studded on the s
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