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San Pedro de Atacama is a small oasis town and of Chile's most popular tourist destinations because of the surrounding landscape. The town is near the Licancabur Volcano and the Atacama Desert - the driest desert in the world. The Atacama covers a 600-mile strip on Chile's Pacific coast, and received very little rain because of the Andes mountains to its East. Trekking and climbing tours can be arranged from San Pedro de Atacama, and there are many tour operators in the town

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua, is a Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific. On the island are 887 visible stone heads, known as moai. The moai were made by the Rapanui people and are a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Easter Island is one of the most isolated places in the world, situated roughly halfway between Chile and Tahiti. LAN Airlines flies from Santiago, Chile to Easter Island, with a flight time of under six hours.

Chile's Lake District is some 650 miles south of Santiago, the capital city. Located at the base of Chile's Andean mountains, the Lake District scenery includes conical volcanoes, green lakes and verdant forested valleys. Writing in the "International Business Times" in May 2009, Rich Grant indicates that canopy ziplines are an increasingly popular tourist activity in the Lake District. Canopy tours involve traveling between high platforms in the trees via an aerial runway.

The highlight of the magnificent natural spectacle of the Parque Nacional Lauca is without doubt Lake Chungará, one of the highest lakes in the world at over an altitude of 4 500m. This shallow lake is overlooked by the snowy peaks of the Parinacota .

Isla Negra, to the south of Valparaíso, was Pablo Neruda's favourite house. Extended by the poet on numerous occasions, the house was confiscated after the 1973 coup d'état. Neruda died shortly after and never saw the house again

The Valle de la Luna near San Pedro de Atacama takes its name from its lunar landscape. At sunrise and sunset, the dunes and rocky formations here take on striking shapes and golden and purple hues. Magnificent colours and magical stone silhouettes.

The Valle de la Luna near San Pedro de Atacama takes its name from its lunar landscape. At sunrise and sunset, the dunes and rocky formations here take on striking shapes and golden and purple hues. Magnificent colours and magical stone silhouettes.

The Chiloé archipelago, extremely verdant thanks to its climate, is renowned for its 150 churches and chapels, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Les Torres overlook the Patagonian steppe, acting as a landmark for the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine with their towering granite peaks. Here verdant rocky valleys alternate with patches of ice floating in the clear lakes

The small town of Santa Cruz extends across the middle of the magnificent wine-growing Colchagua Valley, which is covered with grape varieties imported from France in the 19C. Today these vines produce a red wine which is renowned across the globe.

Some of the oldest mummies in the world were discovered in the Azapa valley, not far from Arica. These are now the highlights of the Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa, which is also home to a collection of petroglyphs

10.10.2017

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