Chile

Places to visit in Chile

In Chile, with its 32 national parks, we will find many sites offering breathtaking natural sceneries.

The Atacama Desert in the north area of the country of Chile. In this area aboriginal groups Aymara and atacameños live together. Also we can find millennial mummies more ancient than the Egyptians, settler's traces of the Inca civilization or other civilizations such as Santa Laura. All of them have been declared Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO. Chile's sites are a perfect place for practicing ecological tourism, the rural tourism or sustainable tourism.

The National park Easter Island, declared as Cultural heritage of the Humanity by the UNESCO and famous for its monolithic human figures or Moais of millennial origin, carved in flat places and characterized by its enigmatic expressions.

Island of Robinson Crusoe, a very interesting place to visit in Chile and one of the islands conforming the Juan Fernández Archipelago, is characterized by its paradisiac areas, still unexplored by mankind and is one of the places that inspired writers such as Daniel Defoe (novel The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe).

The area of the lakes and the volcanoes, site in Chile, where the aboriginal cultures survive thanks to the craft market, with exceptional sceneries with thermal centers, volcanoes, forests and an abundant vegetation. Traces of the Spanish and German colonization era can be found specially in this region of Chile.

The Chilean Patagonia: In this area in Chile, we find an exuberant nature and a spectacular scenery. From deep and wild forests, up to ice fields of the glaciers, one of the most popular is the "Lagoon San Rafael". Other interesting areas to visit and admire one of the worlds most amazing natural sceneries are "Cabo de Hornos" (Cape Horn island) and Carlos III island, which is popular for whale-watching.