Tourism in Chile: where to go beyond Santiago

Tourism in Chile: where to go beyond Santiago


The increase in the demand for packages and the number of flights show the preference of the Brazilians […]

With high prices in nearby Argentina and the largest flight offer in Brazil, Chile entered the list of places most sought after by Brazilians, in international travel.

In fact, some media are already calling Santiago “the new Buenos Aires”, putting the Chilean capital as a cheapest alternative.

The result, according to the newspaper or globe, is a greater demand for packages in agencies such as the CVC, where there was a growth of 19%, compared to the same period last year, as well as a higher flight offer. Only Latam, for example, went from 136 flights per week in 2024 to 168 in 2025.

And if you are able to spend in foreign currency, why not break that old dream of crossing the Andes and finally visit Chile? After all, snow, patagoni forests and good food with wine also have the side of the mountains, dust.




Patagonia

In the southernmost region of the continent, Patagonia is one of the areas with the lowest demographic density on the planet. That is, it is easier to find penguins and marine lions than people.

Chile has the smallest stretch of Patagonia, compared to Argentina, about 240,000 km² of a total of about one million km², and is marked by the most isolated and inhospitable geography of the entire region, whose scenarios range from the steps to abundant green areas.

The most visited attraction is the Torres del Paine National Park, 1h30 by Puerto Natales.

The most famous attraction of the park is the basic Torres Trail, a walk 22 kilometers (round trip) that places the visitor at the foot of the granite mass, in the shape of glacial ice that gives its name to this preserved area.

Prepare to feel on the skin literally, which means being in such isolated lands. In a few minutes, there is sun, pines, wind, cloudy temple, sun, snow, light sky and a little more sun.

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Southern

The road is 1,240 km long and is a tourist attraction alone.

Among the cold lakes of Porto Montt, Marco Zero da Estrada and always green woods of Patagonia Chilean, the traveler crosses rivers, valleys, glaciers, glacial suspended, national parks and millenary rock formations and a water lake.

His most famous attractions are twenty -sequer full -sect, in the Queulat National Park and in the capilla de Marmol.



Twenty -sector culture, in the Queulat National Park

The first is 195 km from Puerto Chacabuco and 165 km north of Coyhaique. This tongue of ice suspended on a mountain can be seen on a short path (1,200 meters, round trip) in Laguna has pain, where you can take a boat to get closer to the glacial.

Already the Sanctuary of La Naturaza Capilla de Marmol It is known by the Millennial Marble Rocks, sculpted by the waters of Lake General Carrera. The boat ridges come out of the distant Puerto Río Quiet, 218 km from Coyhaique.

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Chylon

This archipelago is the Chile that we cost to believe there is.

The second largest island in the country has adventure activities, paths in surreal scenarios and wooden churches that are inheritance of humanity.

One of the most surreal scenarios can be seen on the Duhato-Chpu path of Ancud, north-west of Chilo. There are 9 km of high difficulty walking, passing the coast of Costa, one of the oldest formations of Chile, and cross woods that are always green, even in winter, and the hills access the beach of the Chepu river.

Walking can be combined with a navigation of the wetlands, the result of the powerful earthquake that hit Chilo in 1960, considered the most powerful in the world.

Of magnitude 9.5 and followed by a tsunami, the phenomenon had an epicenter in the city of Valdivia and changed the rivers of Chiloé. It is here that these flooded woods, which can be visited during boat tours through the internal weapons of the Cheupo river, which, after the cataclysm of the 1960s, became one of the longest of Chiloé.

Lakes Andine

Created in 1913 by the Swiss Ricardo Roth, head of the first crossing with tourist purposes in the region, the crossing of the lakes is a seven stadium trip (lacous and terrestrial), which lasts up to three days, between Puerto Varas (Chile) and San Carlos de Barioche (Argentina).

The journey begins in Porto Varas, more than a thousand kilometers from Santiago, and is slowly rhythm with a unique sequence of landscapes that includes glacial lakes, dormant volcanoes of snowy peaks, centenary forests, high villages and wooden wets and wooden aller.

And to see all this at best, passengers have 10 different scripts options.



The most popular, but not recommended by Trip to the agendaThese are the crossings expressed in Chile in Argentina or on the contrary, a pulled journey that crosses three lakes connected by four terrestrial routes, among the fields of Puerto in Chile in Bariloche.

It is tiring, it is demanding and in a hasty rhythm that combines little with Patagonia. Therefore, the tip is to take the two -day crossings with the night in Peulla, an ecological village isolated with only 120 inhabitants.

The journey, which can be combined by bus and even bicycle sections, are performed throughout the year.

Atacama

Tourism trend in 2025, according to research on Booking.com, San Pedro de Atacama is the basic city for those who visit the Atacama desert in northern Chile.

Destiny has one of the most extreme geographies in South America: it is the highest desert address in the world, its land is compared to that of Mars and the rain is rare.

The archaeological capital of the country is also known as “the eyes of the universe”, whose sky is one of the cleanest of the southern hemisphere, hence another title: world capital of astronomy, due to the conditions for the observation of astronomical phenomena.



Valle de la luna

Source: Terra

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