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Parque Nacional Archipiélago Juan Fernández
This national park covers the entire archipelago, a total of 93 sq km, though the township of San Juan Bautista and the airstrip are de-facto exclusions. In an effort to control access to the most fragile areas of the park, Conaf requires many of the hikes to be organized and led b
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Teatro del LagoSur
This amazing 12-years-in-the-making, US$25-million world-class performing arts center opened in 2010, and has single-handedly put Frutillar on the global cultural map. The striking copper-roofed structure is a thing of beauty in itself, flanked against the lake with postcard views
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Playa La Virgen
Until just a couple of years ago, the stunning Playa La Virgen, 46km south of Bahía Inglesa along a lovely coastal road, was a well-guarded treasure of just a few in-the-know Chileans. While the secret is now out, its worth a day trip or a couple of days stay at this little sliver
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Río Liucura Valley
This richly verdant valley offers myriad termas (hot springs), El Cañi nature sanctuary and views of the silver-ribbon Río Liucura. El Cañi is proof that citizens can affect conservation of old-growth forests. When logging threatened the area in 1991, Fundación Lahuen purchased lan
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Museo de Colchagua
Exhibiting the impressive private collection of controversial entrepreneur and alleged arms dealer Carlos Cardoen, this is the largest private museum in Chile. The collection includes pre-Columbian anthropomorphic ceramics from all over Latin America; weapons, religious artifacts a
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Parque Nacional Llanos de Challe
This isolated national park hugs the desert coastline 40km north of Huasco. It generally sees little traffic, except in those years when the desierto florido bursts into bloom. There is also an interesting selection of cacti, flighty guanacos and canny foxes. The park is accessible
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Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
Picasso, Miró, Tápies and Matta are some of the artistic heavyweights who gave works to the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. Begun as a populist art initiative during Allendes presidency – and named in his honor – the incredible collection was taken abroad during the dicta
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Isla Pan de Azúcar
The subtriangular-shaped Sugarloaf Island, or Isla Pan de Azúcar, lies a tantalizingly short distance offshore, its base often shrouded by camanchaca (thick fog) at twilight. It is home to about 2000 Humboldt penguins, as well as other birds, otters and sea lions. The island is a r
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Parque por la Paz
During Chile’s last dictatorship some 4500 political prisoners were tortured and 266 were executed at Villa Grimaldi by the now-disbanded DINA (National Intelligence Directorate). The compound was razed to conceal evidence in the last days of Pinochet’s dictatorship – no doubt to
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Parque Nacional Conguillío
The centerpiece of Parque Nacional Conguillío , an Unesco Biosphere Reserve, is the Volcán Llaima (3125m), one of Chiles most active volcanoes. Llaima means ‘Blood Veins’ in Mapudungun and that’s just what tourists visiting the park got on New Year’s Day 2008. Since 1640, Llaima ha
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Reserva Nacional Malalcahuello
The jewel of northern Araucanía’s national parks, Reserva Nacional Malalcahuello-Nalcas is a combined reserve of 303 sq km just north of the town of Malalcahuello, en route to Lonquimay, and extends almost to the border of Parque Nacional Tolhuaca. Though off the main park circuit,
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Casa de Isla Negra
The spectacular setting on a windswept ocean headland makes it easy to understand why Isla Negra was Pablo Neruda’s favorite house. Built by the poet when he became rich in the 1950s, it was stormed by soldiers just days after the 1973 military coup when Neruda was dying of cancer.
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Observatorio Interamericano Cerro Tololo
Probing the mysteries of stars billions of miles into the past is all in a nights work at the futuristic Observatorio Interamericano Cerro Tololo, which sits at 2200m atop its hill. And while visitors cant stargaze through its monstrous telescopes (even the astronomers dont do that
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Observatorio Cerro Mamalluca
The star of the stargazing show, the purpose-built Observatorio Cerro Mamalluca, 9km northeast of Vicuña, is Elqui Valleys biggest attraction. So big, in fact, that youre likely to share the tour with hordes of other tourists, all looking for their chance to goggle at distant galax
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Huilo
The mostly paved road from Lago Pirihueico, 101km east of Valdivia and 80km south of Villarrica, to Puerto Fuy parallels the scenic Río Huilo Huilo, which tumbles and falls through awe-inspiring scenery to the impressive Huilo-Huilo Reserva Natural Biosfera. This conservation proje
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Pan de Azúcar
The cold Humboldt Current flows up the desert coastline, bringing with it its peppy namesake penguin and abundant marine life. The worthwhile 44,000-hectare Pan de Azúcar includes white-sand beaches, sheltered coves, stony headlands and cacti-covered hills.Pan de Azúcar is 30km nor
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Parque Nacional Laguna San Rafael
Awesome and remote, this national park brings visitors face to face with the 30,000-year-old San Valentín glacier in Chiles northern ice field. Established in 1959, the 12,000-sq-km Unesco Biosphere Reserve is a major regional attraction. The park encompasses peaty wetlands, pristi
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Valle Chacabuco (Parque Nacional Patagonia)
Eighteen kilometers north of Cochrane, this reformed estancia (grazing ranch) is home to flamingo, guanaco, huemul (endangered Andean deer), puma, viscacha and fox. Conservacion Patagonica, the NGO behind the Patagonia National Park project, began this initiative in 2004. Now dubbe
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Parque Pumalín
Verdant and pristine, this 2889-sq-km park encompasses vast extensions of temperate rainforest, clear rivers, seascapes and farmland. A remarkable forest-conservation effort, stretching from near Hornopirén to south of Chaitén, Parque Pumalín attracts international visitors in grea
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Parque Tagua
Carved out of virgin Valdivian rainforest 15km east of Puelo, Parque Tagua-Tagua is southern Chiles latest park. A private initiative funded by Universidad Mayor in Santiago and managed by Mitico Puelo Lodge and Miralejos Chile Adventure, the park preserves 3000 hectares of previou
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