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Museo del Mar Lord Cochrane
The Museo del Mar Lord Cochrane was built in 1842 for the dashing Scottish naval hero Lord Thomas Cochrane (who set up Chiles navy), but was never occupied by him. The building, a tile-roofed, colonial-style house above Plaza Sotomayor, held Chiles first astronomical observatory. T
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Museo Histórico Casa Gabriel González Videla
Although richly stocked with general historical artifacts, this two-story museum in an 18th-century mansion concentrates on one of La Serenas best-known (and most controversial) sons. González Videla was Chiles president from 1946 to 1952. Ever the cunning politician, he took power
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Parque Nacional La Campana
Looming large within this national park are two of the highest mountains in the coastal range, Cerro El Roble (2200m) and Cerro La Campana (1880m), which Charles Darwin climbed in 1834. La Campana remains relatively uncrowded despite its closeness to Santiago. It’s subdivided into
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Museo Histórico y Antropológico
Housed in a fine riverfront mansion on Isla Teja, this museum is one of Chiles finest. It features a large, well-labeled collection from pre-Columbian times to the present, with particularly fine displays of Mapuche Indian artifacts and household items from early German settlements
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Parque Bicentenario
This gorgeous urban oasis was created, as the name suggests, in celebration of the Chilean bicentennial. In addition to more than 4000 trees, a peaceful location alongside the Río Mapocho and access to city bike paths, the park features inviting chaise lounges and sun umbrellas, pl
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Cementerios 1 & 2
The citys most illustrious, influential and infamous residents rest in peace in Cementerio 1, where the tombs look like ornate mini palaces. Adjoining it is Cementerio 2, including the Cementerio de Disidentes (dissident cemetery) where English and European immigrants were buried.
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Wetland Reserve
Near Paso Alto Coyhaique on the Argentine border, this 181-hectare wetland reserve hosts diverse birdlife, including black neck swans, coots and grebes. Its an ecological transition zone from southern beech forest to semiarid steppe. Orchids abound. A short hiking trail goes to Lag
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Patronato
This barrio within a barrio, roughly bordered by Recoleta, Loreto, Bellavista and Dominica streets, is the heart of Santiagos immigrant communities, particularly Koreans, Chinese and Arabs. The colorful, slightly run-down blocks are lined with antique buildings and illuminated by n
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Parque Nacional Chiloé
Running back from the pounding Pacific coastline, and over extensive stands of native evergreen forest, the 430-sq-km Parque Nacional Chiloé is only 30km west of Chonchi and 54km west of Castro. The park teems with Chilote wildlife, from 110 different types of bird, to foxes and th
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Parque Nacional Alerce Andino
Although lightly visited, the mountainous 40,000-hectare (98,842-acre) Parque Nacional Alerce Andino provides excellent opportunities to hike through rare and protected old-growth alerce forest. Lush evergreen forest ranges from sea level to 900m (2953ft), a thick twisting medley o
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El Tatio Geysers
El Tatio is ringed by volcanoes and fed by over 80 gurgling geysers and a hundred gassy fumaroles. Contrary to popular opinion it is not the worlds largest geyser field, but the third largest. The best time to see the geysers is 06:00, so make sure you wipe the sleep from your eyes
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Monumento Natural Cerro Ñielol
Cerro Ñielol is a hill that sits among some 90 hectares of native forest – a little forested oasis in the city. Chiles national flower, the copihue (Lapageria rosea), grows here in abundance, flowering from March to July. Cerro Ñielol is also of historical importance, since it was
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Observatorio Collowara
Like Mamalluca, the shiny hilltop Observatorio Collowara in Andacollo is built for tourists; no serious interstellar research is conducted here. Two-hour tours run in summer at 9pm, 10:30pm and midnight; in winter they run at 7pm, 8:30pm and 10:30pm. The facility boasts three viewi
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Parque Nacional Rapa Nui
Since 1935, most of Rapa Nuis land and all of its archaeological sites have been a national park administered by Conaf. The park teems with caves, ahu (ceremonial platforms), fallen moai (statues), village structures and petroglyphs. Spending the extra cash on a guided tour, or on
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Cemetery
Pisaguas most sobering site is its old cemetery 3km north of town, spread over a lonely hillside that slips suddenly into the ocean. Here, vultures guard over a gaping pit beneath the rock face, where a notorious mass grave of victims of the Pinochet dictatorship was discovered. A
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Catedral de San Marcos
This Gothic-style church has a threefold claim to fame. First, it was designed by celebrated Parisian engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, before his success with the Eiffel Tower. Second, it was prefabricated in Eiffels Paris shop in the 1870s (at the order of the Peruvian president
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Palacio de la Moneda
Chiles presidential offices are in the Palacio de la Moneda. The ornate neoclassical building was designed by Italian architect Joaquín Toesca in the late 18th century and was originally the official mint. The inner courtyards are generally open to the public; schedule a guided tou
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Parque Quinta Vergara
Nowhere is Viñas nickname of the Garden City better justified than at the magnificently landscaped Parque Quinta Vergara, which you enter from Errázuriz at the south end of Libertad. It once belonged to one of the citys most illustrious families, the Alvares-Vergaras. Their residen
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Valle de la Luna
San Pedros most popular and cheapest organized tour, this valley is named after its lunarlike landforms eroded by eons of flood and wind.
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Reserva Nacional Tamango
Boasting Chile’s largest population of endangered huemul deer, Reserva Nacional Tamango protects a 70 sq km transition zone to the Patagonian steppe. Huemul are notoriously shy, but chances of sighting one are better here than anywhere. At the entrance, trails (1.5km to 7km in leng
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