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.
The tours described above are just a sample. As I provide private tours only, I can adapt the program according to your wishes: add a few stops, avoid
other things... you tell me!
For example, in Vina del Mar, it's possible to visit the museo Fonck, an interesting museum about Easter Island (mainly), or to go the botanic garden.
In Valparaiso, the museo naval can be added to the tour, as well as a walk on muelle Baron (the docks) or anything else. Visiting Neruda's house is not an obligation.
On the way to Isla Negra, it's not an obligation either to visit a wineyard in Casablanca valley.
In Santiago, I focus the tour in the center, but it's possible to take the funicular to Cerro San Cristobal, from where there is an excellent view of the city, or visit museums... instead of walking around. Just ask me!
I can also drive you to other places like the small fishermen's village of Quintay...
...or to the cute beach resorts of Ritoque and Maitencillo, adding them
to the tour of the North coast.
Any suggestion? Just let me know!
For example, in Vina del Mar, it's possible to visit the museo Fonck, an interesting museum about Easter Island (mainly), or to go the botanic garden.
In Valparaiso, the museo naval can be added to the tour, as well as a walk on muelle Baron (the docks) or anything else. Visiting Neruda's house is not an obligation.
On the way to Isla Negra, it's not an obligation either to visit a wineyard in Casablanca valley.
In Santiago, I focus the tour in the center, but it's possible to take the funicular to Cerro San Cristobal, from where there is an excellent view of the city, or visit museums... instead of walking around. Just ask me!
I can also drive you to other places like the small fishermen's village of Quintay...
...or to the cute beach resorts of Ritoque and Maitencillo, adding them
to the tour of the North coast.Any suggestion? Just let me know!
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
I've asked many people around me (family, friends, colleagues from France...) what they
know about Chile. Or maybe I should say: what they think they know. Cause most of them have the wrong idea about this country. Let's correct the most
common clichés I've heard 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.
