Luxury Chile
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Overview
Stretching over 4,300 kilometres along South America’s Pacific coastline, Chile is a land of startling contrasts and beautiful extremes. Embark on this luxury journey, travelling from the stark and inhospitable beauty of the Atacama Desert to the staggering Torres del Paine National Park, whilst staying in some of the best accommodation on the continent.
Begin exploring the historic architecture and meeting some locals in the capital, providing some balance to the ...
Stretching over 4,300 kilometres along South America’s Pacific coastline, Chile is a land of startling contrasts and beautiful extremes. Embark on this luxury journey, travelling from the stark and inhospitable beauty of the Atacama Desert to the staggering Torres del Paine National Park, whilst staying in some of the best accommodation on the continent.
Begin exploring the historic architecture and meeting some locals in the capital, providing some balance to the remote, exclusive hotel stays to come. Then, fly up to the harsh, surreal landscapes of the Atacama in the north, the world’s driest desert. Here, you’ll stay in the small luxury desert hotel of Awasi, set outside the small town of San Pedro de Atacama exploring the vast surrounding landscapes with a private guide and 4WD for two days. In stark contrast, you’ll travel to the remote island of Chiloé for a couple of days to explore the archipelago’s culture and untouched forests, before flying south to the windswept beauty of Patagonia.
Explore the glistening glacial lakes and snow-capped mountains of Torres del Paine National Park in search of its majestic wildlife. After three nights at your Luxury Patagonian lodge, once listed under National Geographic’s ‘Unique Lodges of the World’, fly back to the capital and spend your last couple of nights indulging in fine dining at a beautiful boutique wine hotel set in Chile’s famed wine region, the Colchagua Valley.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Suggested Itinerary
This is a suggested itinerary. Our experts have all travelled widely in the region and will be happy to tailor any of our itineraries to suit your tastes, or build a trip from scratch.
Day 1 Arrive Santiago
Day 1 Arrive Santiago
After arriving to Chile's capital, your personal guide will be waiting at the airport to meet and welcome you to the country, before taking you to your hotel in the city centre and helping you to settle in. You’ll have the rest of today to relax and settle in after your international flight.
Day 2 Santiago: Architecture, Viewpoints & Food Markets
Day 2 Santiago: Architecture, Viewpoints & Food Markets
After breakfast, you’ll head out with your guide to explore the city’s central markets giving you a flavour of the local cuisine and culture. Perusing the stalls, you’ll stop to talk to the stall owners and try a few specialities including fresh, exotic fruit juice and Chile’s national cocktail, the Pisco Sour, with a few seafood dishes straight from Chile’s extensive coastline. Then, moving on to the city’s central plaza, you’ll tour its colonial architecture, such as the Metropolitan Cathedral, for an immersive lesson into the country’s history. Finish with a beautiful view over Santiago from San Cristobal Hill, before being taken back to your hotel.
Day 3 Santiago - San Pedro De Atacama
Day 3 Santiago - San Pedro De Atacama
This morning, you'll taken to board a flight to Calama where your private guide and driver, which have been arranged at your disposal for the next three days, will be waiting to receive you. After being transferred to ultimate luxury hotel, the Relais & Chateau property of Awasi Atacama, you’ll have the rest of the afternoon and evening to unwind surrounded by stunning desert.
Day 4 The Atacama Desert: Otherworldly Landscapes
Day 4 The Atacama Desert: Otherworldly Landscapes
Following breakfast, and in your own time, you can out to explore the otherworldly landscapes and valleys of the world’s driest desert. After a consultation on the area, and taking your preferences, fitness level and mood into account, you’ll be paired with an expert guide and a private 4WD vehicle, who will be able to take you to your preferred sites.
Day 5 The Atacama Desert: Private Tailored Tours
Day 5 The Atacama Desert: Private Tailored Tours
A second full day provides the opportunity to head out on the lonesome desert roads once again, this time in the opposite direction to yesterday, exploring some of the natural wonders not yet seen. You can choose to take a packed lunch from the hotel’s kitchen and stay out all day, allowing you to reach further afield sites, or break up the day with some afternoon downtime and lunch back at the lodge in between morning and afternoon excursions. The day is completely flexible and tailored to your desires.
Day 6 San Pedro De Atacama – Chiloé Island
Day 6 San Pedro De Atacama – Chiloé Island
You’ll be driven back to the airport for an early morning flight to Puerto Montt, where you’ll meet your transfer through Chile’s stunning Lake District to the high-end Tierra hotel on the remote island of Chiloé, found in the heart of the rich, cultural archipelago. The rest of the day is free to enjoy the minimalist hotel and its surroundings.
Day 7 Chiloé Island: Private Forest, Lake & Waterfall Hike
Day 7 Chiloé Island: Private Forest, Lake & Waterfall Hike
Head out for a full day’s exploration of one of the island’s protected parks, a 20,000-hectare private conservation initiative. The day begins with a hike through its lush virgin forest with your local guide, as the trail leads you along a path of enormous mañio, tepues and cinnamon trees (some of which are more than 600 years old) to the refreshing Rio Bravo waterfall standing over 10 metres tall. Later, after lunch and some time to relax in the pure natural air, you’ll navigate the far reaches of the park that end at a splendidly peaceful lake. Arrive back to the hotel in the early evening in time for sunset in the outdoor, heated infinity pool overlooking the wildlife rich Pullao Wetland.
*Exact excursions are confirmed upon arrival. The above is given as a sample of the type of activities that can be included.
Day 8 Chiloé Island: Castro Cultural Boat Tour
Day 8 Chiloé Island: Castro Cultural Boat Tour
Your tour by boat today focuses on the culture and history of the island, in the island capital of Castro. Visit the traditional stilt houses of the 16th-century city, recounting the historic tensions and blending of cultures between the islanders and the mainland. A stop at the picturesque Yumbel Market allows you to browse some of the items and products most typical to the archipelago – including chilote potatoes, giant garlic, basketry, fabrics and seafood - and learn about their economy and traditions. A visit to the coastal shipyard offers insight into this immensely important part of island life. During the course of the day there will also be two significant architectural stops: firstly at the San Francisco Church, the region’s main Catholic house of worship and a UNESCO World Heritage Site; and Nercón Church, a legacy of the renowned Chilota School of Wood Architecture, where the tour concludes. Arrive back to the hotel’s farm-to-table restaurant to enjoy a fresh plate of the daily catch from the local fishing community visited on your tour, with warmly lit panoramic views of the inland sea.
*Exact excursions are confirmed upon arrival. The above is given as a sample of the type of activities that can be included.
Day 9 Chiloé Island - Torres Del Paine National Park
Day 9 Chiloé Island - Torres Del Paine National Park
Transfer back to the airport in Puerto Montt for your flight to Puerto Natales, where you will be met on arrival and taken through incredible scenery to your accommodation, considered the most luxurious lodge within the Torres del Paine National Park. Spend the rest of the day settling into these spectacular surroundings.
Day 10 Torres Del Paine National Park: Boat & Hike Exploration
Day 10 Torres Del Paine National Park: Boat & Hike Exploration
The full day voyage begins by boat along the ice cold, crystalline waters of the Cochrane River and lake basin. During this part of the excursion, camera at the ready, you’ll be presented with peaceful views of the forested mountains either side of you from the water. Later on, disembark and continue by foot along the southern slopes of the park, one of the main huemel habitats, hiking through the forests in search of wildlife, accompanied by birdsong. Your guide will find a particularly scenic spot in this quiet part of Chilean Patagonia to enjoy your picnic lunch, handmade by the hotel’s kitchen using fresh local produce.
*Exact excursions will be confirmed upon arrival. The above is given as a sample of the type of activities that can be included.
Day 11 Torres Del Paine National Park: Wildlife & Lagoons
Day 11 Torres Del Paine National Park: Wildlife & Lagoons
After breakfast, set out on your second full day of activities on foot from the lodge across the vast steppe. There are two options: for twitchers, your guide can lead you on a morning hike to Laguna Cisnes (Swan Lagoon) home to one of the largest variety of birds in the area or, alternatively, you can march on the region bordering the Chacabuco River to an area known to be populated by pumas and guancos to learn about these land-dwelling creatures of the park. Return back to the lodge for lunch and a chance to soak in one of the outdoor hot tubs at the foot of the mountains. In the afternoon, cover more ground in the comfort of your overland vehicle searching out the various lagoons, such as Edita, Cisnes, Los Flamencos and Seca, around the confluence of the Baker and Neff rivers.
*Exact excursions will be confirmed upon arrival. The above is given as a sample of the type of activities that can be included.
Day 12 Torres Del Paine National Park – Colchagua Valley
Day 12 Torres Del Paine National Park – Colchagua Valley
Saying farewell to this special corner of the globe, you'll be taken back to the airport in Puerto Natales for your direct flight back to the capital. Here, your driver will be waiting to transfer you to one of Chile's most renowned wine regions, the Colchagua Valley. Enjoy some downtime at the end of your trip in style at the Lapostolle vineyard, winery and hotel nestled in the hills overlooking Chile’s spectacular Apalta Vineyards in the valley. A recommended start to your time here might be to begin with a tour of the vineyard and a private tasting in the winery before dinner to set the scene for the rest stay.
Day 13 Colchagua Valley: Downtime & Wine
Day 13 Colchagua Valley: Downtime & Wine
A stay at Clos Apalta Residence is the ultimate luxury wine experience in Chile, where days can be spent whiling away within the picturesque setting of the verdant valley. A team of chefs prepares a menu for each wine using top-quality seasonal produce. Guests can work off lunch with a bike ride through the vineyards encircled by the mountainous natural tapestry in the distance. Later, relax with a glass of the hotel’s own wine in the chic infinity pool overlooking the valley at sunset, before enjoying your final dinner of the trip.
Day 14 Colchagua Valley – Depart Santiago
Day 14 Colchagua Valley – Depart Santiago
Depending on your flight time, you may have the morning at leisure at the boutique wine hotel, before being picked up by your driver and taken back to the airport in Santiago, where your Chilean holiday concludes.
SUGGESTED ACCOMMODATION
Awasi Atacama, San Pedro de Atacama
A marvellous boutique lodging on the outskirts of San Pedro de Atacama, fashioned from adobe, wood and stone to create a refined, rustic hotel with just eight rooms. Each room comes with a private patio, outdoor and indoor showers and is assigned its very own private guide and 4WD vehicle. There is an outdoor pool and lovely courtyard, providing an exquisite atmosphere at night with low lighting to fully appreciate the unique canvas of the starry Atacama night sky. The service is impeccable with incredible attention to detail, and the excursions offered are second-to-none. When not sampling their menu of exclusive excursions, guests can enjoy excellent cuisine within a unique setting. Awasi is one of the finest places to stay in Atacama.
Explora Patagonia Hotel Salto Chico, Torres Del Paine
An incredibly luxurious base for exploring the national park, Explora Patagonia is an upmarket, all-inclusive lodge located inside the Torres del Paine National Park. The Explora group handpick excellent local excursions that are fully inclusive of your stay. The Explora Patagonia offers more than 35 excursions, including highlight tours as well as original experiences like being a gaucho for the day (subject to availability). The lodge is located beside the Salto Chico waterfall and rooms either have views of the granite spires that give the park its name or the waterfall. Interiors are made of wood and slate copper, and a walkway connects the property to open-air whirlpools. Rooms feature almond-wood floors and have traded in televisions for windows with some of the most beautiful views anywhere in the world. As with all of their properties the food is very highly rated.
Clos Apalta Residence, Colchagua Valley
One of the most high-end options in the Colchagua Valley and Chilean winelands, the boutique Clos Apalata is set among vineyards and countryside, near the well-regarded Lapostolle winery, overlooking the pretty valley down below and scenic mountains in the distance from the outdoor pool and terrace. The small, intimate property is made up of four luxury casitas, each named after a wine (such as Casita Merlot), stocked with all amenities. As one would expect, the food is divine, perfectly combined with one of the wines from their premium selection, either before or after a tasting and tours, which can be arranged through them.
Tierra Chiloé, Castro (Chiloé)
Tierra Chiloé is a unique concept on the island of Chiloé, offering luxurious accommodation in the heart of a stunning archipelago with a rich cultural heritage. This is an incredible area of desolate beauty whose nature and wildlife can be explored on foot, on horseback, by bicycle or by boat. The main building blends harmoniously into the surroundings and the 24 elegant rooms are warm and inviting. Tierra Chiloé aims to maintain biodiversity over its 20 hectares of land through planting 18 different types of produce including herbs, fruit and vegetables; nine of which are native to the region such as hazelnut, nalca and rosehip.
The Singular Santiago, Santiago
If you want to enjoy the arts and culture of Santiago’s Lastarria Barrio from an elegant base, the five-star Singular hotel is your place. Located in the artistic hub of the city, the hotel’s neo-classic architectural style is a homage to the surrounding area’s culture and history. You will feel transported into an age of class and comfort as you dine in the restaurant, relax in the lounge or view the cityscape from the Sky Bar. The standard rooms are designed for luxury and comfort, whilst the suites feature stylish art deco and neoclassical interiors. The restaurant has gained a great reputation in Santiago’s gastronomic circles thanks to its flavour combinations and dedication to use of local products. The spa and gym suit business and leisure travellers alike and there is a glamourous rooftop pool to soak in after view the city you spent the day exploring.
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Accommodation listed here is intended as a guide only, to give you a taste of what we can do. Our experts can tailor any aspect of this itinerary and accommodation to suit your budget and tastes.
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When you book a trip with Wild Frontiers you are awarded points, which are based on the return distance from London to the arrival city of your trip. Points are awarded for all our holidays, including both our escorted group tours and tailor-made trips. When you accrue points, you will qualify for the following discounts on all future bookings:
| Blue | More than 10,000 points | 2.5% discount |
| Bronze | More than 30,000 points | 5% discount |
| Silver | More than 45,000 points | 7.5% discount |
| Gold | More than 60,000 points | 10% discount |
This itinerary is aimed to give you an idea of what we can offer. The price shown above is per person, based on two people travelling outside of peak periods. As this itinerary is only a suggestion and can be tailor-made to suit your interests and budget, your final price may differ.
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