Visit Chile - private tours
All the tours I provide are described below. The visits of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar can be taken separately, or put together for a full-day tour.
French version of the site here.
Walking on the colorful cerros (hills) Alegre and Concepcion, one of Unesco's World Heritage sites ... 
Climbing up to the cerros within the typical old ascensores (elevators) ...
Discovering the Museo a ciel abierto and several mural paintings, another of Valparaiso's specialties ...
Visiting la Sebastiana, poetic house of Nobel prize winner Pablo Neruda ...
Visiting the port and its popular handcrafts market ...
Walking through Valparaiso's Plan (down the hills) and its monumental buildings, the plaza Sotomayor and its historical monuments
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Discovering the oldest part of the city, plaza Echaurren and iglesia Matriz ...
Enjoying the great view at Paseo 21 de mayo, above the port and the city ...
About your guide
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26-years old French journalist, I left France and my job in 2006 and fell in love with Valparaiso, its region, and... one of its inhabitants. Since 2007 I stopped working as a journalist, and set
up these guided tours.Contact: visiter.valparaiso@gmail.com
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Clichés about Chile
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Chile IS NOT an exotic country: The climate is very different all
across the country: in the north, the Atacama is the dryest desert in the world. In the center, where half of the Chilean population lives (Santiago, Valparaiso, Viña del Mar: my region),
there is a mediterranean climate. Further south it gets colder and rainy (oceanic climate), and in the far south of Patagonia, it's almost a polar climate. Of course, there are exotic fruits
such as papaya or mango, as well as cactus and palms, but nor jungles neither tropical landscapes. Because Chile is stuck betweem the high Andes and the cold Humboldt's stream in the Pacific
ocean, that provide a climate quite different from the rest of South America.
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Chile IS NOT a Third-world country: It's a developing country, the
richest in South America. Chilean people are, for instance, more involved in new technologies than French people (in my opinion). Whereas it's one of the countries in the world with the
biggest differences between the rich (quite few but really rich and powerful) and the poor (about 20% of the population, according to oficial datas).
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Chile IS NOT a dictatorship: Although Pinochet just died one year ago, I bet many people still think there is no stability in this country. This is absolutely wrong. Pinochet lost the
elections in 1989, and since then a left-center coalition rules Chile through a stable and free democratic system.
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Chile IS NOT a coffee producer: Many people think it is, because most
of south-american countries (Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela...) are very imporant producers. But it seems that the very specific chilean climate doesn't allow for the production of coffee.
- Chile IS NOT the godfather of chili con carne: This very famous dish is even hard to find here: it comes from the south of the USA, mainly Texas and New Mexico. Chili is the name of the spice, it's not related to the country.
