Overview & Highlights
This comprehensive holiday shows off the variety of landscapes from the Atacama desert to Patagonia, via sunny vineyards and the volcano-dotted lake district. Private travel and top quality hotels throughout.
- Santiago: walking tour
- San Pedro de Atacama: Moon Valley and Atacama salt flats
- Lake district: Petrohue Falls and boat trip on Lago Todos Los Santos
- Torres del Paine: Full program of excursions to choose from
Transposed to Europe, Chile would stretch from Norway to Tunisia. It extends some 4,000 kilometres, down a ribbon of land that clings to the western flank of the Andes, with a staggering variety of landscape, vegetation and climate. This comprehensive tour will take you from the lunar landscape of the Atacama Desert in the north, through the patchwork vineyards that surround the cosmopolitan capital, Santiago, and the forested volcanoes of the lake district to the Straits of Magellan, where stormy waters lash the broad, windswept landscapes and snow-capped peaks of Patagonia.
Outline itinerary
UK clients depart arriving in Santiago, Chile, the following day.
Day 1
Walking tour of the colonial centre.
Day 2
Optional visits to Pacific port Valparaiso or nearby vineyard.
Day 3
Fly north to San Pedro
Day 4
Explore the Atacama desert.
Day 5
Optional excursions around San Pedro.
Day 6
Fly via Santiago to the lake district and waterside Puerto Varas.
Day 7
Excursion to Petrohué Falls; boat trip on Lake Todos Los Santos.
Day 8
Optional full-day visit to Chiloé Island.
Day 9
Fly south to Punta Arenas in Patagonia.
Days 10 - 11
Explore the national park on some of the included excursions.
Day 12
By road to Punta Arenas
Day 13
Continue to Punta Arenas and fly back to Santiago.
Day 14
Depart for international flight or extension.
UK clients arrive home the following day.
Things to do
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Accommodation
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Holiday Extensions
If there's somewhere you particularly want to go that isn't included in this tour, we can add on an extension to take you there.
What our clients say
97% of our clients rated their experience with us as Excellent or Good.
This really is Extremes of Chile going from desert conditions to frozen mountains. He prepared for some tiring travelling - and some stupendous scenery.
DR, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tailor made holiday
Our specialists have been expertly crafting award-winning tailor-made holidays to Latin America for 40 years. We would be delighted to create a truly personalised trip which perfectly matches your wishes and requirements.
Sophie Barber - Travel Expert
Sophie lived in Chile before joining us and has travelled extensively across Latin America, from Mexico to the furthest tip of Patagonia and beyond to Antarctica.
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Chris Rendell-Dunn - Travel Expert
Anglo-Peruvian Chris grew up in Lima and spent much of his adult life in between London and Cusco as a tour leader, before settling permanently in our London-based Tailor-made and Group Tours sales team.
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Hannah Waterhouse - Travel Expert
Hannah had an early introduction to Latin America when her family moved to Ecuador and she returned to study in Buenos Aires for a year before backpacking across the continent.
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Evie Oswald - Travel Expert
It's hard to believe that Evie has had time to cram so much in to her life so far. Having lived as a child in the Americas and Europe she found herself immediately attracted to Latin America.
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Sophie Barber - Travel Expert
Sophie lived in Chile before joining us and has travelled extensively across Latin America, from Mexico to the furthest tip of Patagonia and beyond to Antarctica.
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Hannah Donaldson - Travel Expert
Having spent part of her childhood in Colombia and worked in Brazil and Costa Rica, Hannah's ties to Latin America run deep. Hannah is a much valued Travel Expert in our Tailor-made Holidays and Group Tours sales team.
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Mary Anne Nelson - Travel Expert
Born in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, Mary’s insider knowledge and dry sense of humour make her a highly valued member of the Tailor-made Holidays and Group Tour sales team.
