Peru Chile Argentina

5 Jan 2022 – 23 Jan 2022 · by bri

Destinations

Lima, Peru
Cuzco, Peru
Machu Picchu Pueblo, Peru
Santiago, Chile

Restaurante 99 9 course Meal Make reservations La Vega - great food esp early on, not safe watch for pick pockets - Plaza de Armas is fun! Lots of street performers, shops, and restaurants. The Museo Histórico Nacional is on the plaza and free entrance. The cathedral is beautiful and worth peeking in. - Cerro San Cristóbal is a small mountain in the city that is a huge park. You can hike it, but there’s also a funicular that’s like $5 one way, or you can ride a bus up. - Chorrillanas! These are really dressed up French fries. Like poutine but (I’m sorry Canadians) way better. My favorite are from El Palacio De La Chorrillana in Providencia (which is near an entrance to Cerro San Cristóbal) - Try a Completo! These are hotdogs but topped with all kinds of things! The standard version is with tomatoes, avocado, mayonnaise and sauerkraut. And there’s always a ton of additional toppings you can add.
- Santiago: Sky Costanera Level 61 and 62 Entry Ticket
- Mercado Central de Santiago
- Santiago: Cousiño Macul Official Winery Tour with Tasting
- Bellavista
- Sculpture Park
- Museum of Memory and Human Rights
- Quinta Normal Park
- Chilean National Museum of Natural History
- Ekeka & Ekeko Murals
- Museum of Visual Arts
- Patio Bellavista
- Patio Bellavista
- La Vega Central Market
Viña del Mar, Chile
Valparaíso, Chile
- From Santiago: Valparaiso and Viña del Mar Day Tour
- La Sebastiana
- Flower Clock
- Wulff Castle
- Parque Italia
- Diego Portales Viewpoint
- Las Salinas Beach
- Quinta Vergara
Patagonia chilena, Chile

Torres del Paine National Park (Patagonia) was phenomenal. It takes 4-5 days to hike the W trail and all the others (or you can do what my sisters and I did and struggle to cram it into 2 days). If you're passing through Santiago, I cannot suggest strongly enough that you go visit Easter Island for 3 days. You have to fly through Santiago or Tahiti to get there, so why not? I loved it. Also, if it isn't too much trouble, go to Iguazu Falls!!! Easiest to get there flying through Buenos Aires. 2 days is enough and it's amazing. Largest waterfall system in the world! And nearby is Itaipu Dam, largest dam in the world. Tour of it was awesome. If you do both (Iguazu and Itaipu) I'd say give yourself 3 days--1 for the dam and 2 for the falls. Patagonia highlights for me: El chalten (the best), el Calafate for the glacier, around ushuaia there is beautiful hiking too, on the Chilean side Torres del Paine, also loved Pucon and Puerto Varas in the lagos region Aysen region of Chilean Patagonia (carretera austral route), including the northern end of it at parque pumalin which is phenomenal. Caleta tortel at the southern end and villa o’Higgins, which you can get to by horseback and crossing a lake - the most underrated part of Patagonia!