Chile with Luxury & Style
(13 Days): A Sample Itinerary
ID #: DT-C-13-11-23-07-BESI
DavidTravel Itinerary Highlights include:
•
An
introductory city tour includes the 18th-century Cathedral and a
visit to the
Pre-Columbian Art Museum, led by one of its curators. Stop
in the Barrio Brasil, today an enclave of Santiago's artistic
community
•Fly to Puerto Montt in the Chilean Lake
District. Visit the town and gaze across the waters of the
Llanquihue to the
mighty
Osorno Volcano.
•Raft through Class III rapids, ride horseback
through the native forest, trek in Chile's oldest National Park
or go on a photo safari to the Osorno Volcano.
•Once a booming port city and haven for big
clipper ships,
Punta Arenas
lost prominence with the opening of the Panama Canal. After a
brief city tour, continue to
Puerto Natales,
stopping en route at a typical farm for a sheep-shearing
demonstration and a barbecue lunch. • Travel through the windswept plains of
Patagonia
en route to
Torres del Paine National Park.
Spend three full days choosing from a variety of activities and
exploring the area's magnificent beauty.
Overview:
Chile will keep any traveler happy -
from the vast salt-flats in the north, to European-feeling
cities and coastal resorts in the centre, to the spectacular
mountains of the south.
Chile is situated in South America, bounded by
Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, the Antarctic and the Pacific Ocean.
Home of the Andes mountain range, it is a thin ribbon of land,
2,610 miles long and nowhere more than 115 miles wide.
Because of its unusual geography, Chile has a
hugely varied climate ranging from the world's driest desert in
the world - the Atacama, stretching for 621 miles, with areas
where rainfall has never been recorded, through a Mediterranean
climate in the centre, to a snow-prone Alpine climate in the
south. Travelers can enjoy the country's abundant fauna and
flora and spectacular scenery consisting of huge glaciers,
fjords, waterfalls, blue lakes and numerous national parks where
trekking is a very popular activity amongst tourists.