Santiago Information
Things to do during the day:
Places where you can eat:
Fuente alemana: Av. Bernardo O´higgins 58, variaty of sandwiches, $4000 p/p.
Los canallas: tipical chilean food, only with reservations, You must have “the password” to get in: “CHILE LIBRE”. Tarapaca 810 phone: 6325491. website: www.canallas.cl
Mercado central: variaty in fresh sea food. Metro Station Cal y Canto. $5000 p/p.
Tours:
Andes & wines: $34000, full day tour (9-10hrs) Monday- Wednesday-Friday from 8:15am.
Pablo neruda route: $48000, full day tour (8-9 hrs) Tuesday to Sundays from 9:00 am.
Tour viñedo udurraga, half day tour, $28000 p/p, departures from 8:15. (4–5 hrs). Monday to Sunday.
Viñedo concha y toro: half day tour, $28000 p/p, departures from1 pm. (4–5 hrs). Monday to sunday.
Hop on hop off tour: 11 stops, $18000 p/p, departures every half hour from 9:30am untill 6 pm.
Cena show: Monday to Sunday, 8:15 pm, $32000 p/p , 3-4 hrs.
Viña del mar & Valparaíso: $32000 p/p, Monday to sunday, from 8:15 am, (9-10 hrs).
Santiago Pub Crawl, night tour through different bars of santiago. Starts at 9.30 pm. $10000 p/p Fridays and Saturdays.
Things to do for free or very cheap:
Free santiago tour in english: 4 hour duration from Monday to sunday, tour through different historical places from santiago downtown.
Pueblito “Los Dominicos”.
Santa Lucia Hill and enjoy some particular and unique flavour of icecream at ”emporio”.
Centro cultural Palacio la Moneda.
Metropolitan Zoo.
Metropolitan Park: Picnic, pool, funicular area www.parquemet.cl.
Planetarium, metro Universidad de Santiago., www.planetariochile.cl.
Museo Chileno de arte precolombino www.precolombino.cl.
Museum-house “La Chascona” de Pablo Neruda.
Things to do at night:
places where you can eat and drink:
Barrio Brasil, variaty of pubs and restaurants, all kind of specialities. $7000 p/p.
Patio Bellavista, diferent restaurantes and a big space to chill out. $10000 p/p.
Where to go dancing:
Subterraneo discotec, paseo orrego luco 46, providencia.
Blondie, alternative disco, av. Bernardo O´higgins 2879.
Club la feria, electronic music, providencia.
Le habana, salsoteca, SALSA! bucarest 95, Bellavista.
La Batuta, plaza Ñuñoa.
El tunel, santo domingo 439.
Sugestions and recomendations:
What kind of clothes do i have to take with me?
In winter you need glooves, scarf, jacket and shoes that can resist water.
In summer: shorts, sandals, fresh clothes, t-shirts.
Weather
Winter is cold, during the day it could be sometimes fresh and during the night gets very cold.
Summer temperatures are high and intense and very dry specially during january, february and march.
Others
Electricity in chile is 220v so is necessary for US and UK citizens to bring an adaptor.
Transportation:
How to get to the Hostel from the airport?
Transvip: they are located in the main door of the airport. $5000, 24 hours, they leave you in hostel door.
Cetropuerto buses: located in the main door of the airport, $1700, from 6:00 am to 23:00pm. The stop at the city is located in Los heroes metro Station. From the airport is about 30 min.
Bus terminal: if you are at the hostel, you need to go to the nearest Metro Station Line 1 (red one) and get off at metro station Universidad de Santiago.
How to get to the airport from the hostel?
Taxi: $13000, pick up at the hostels door.
Centropuerto buses: Located at Los Heroes metro station. $1700, every 10 min.
Transvip: pick up at the hostels door, $5000.
From the bus terminal: metro station Universidad de Santiago and your stop is Los Heroes. Walk one block until Tucapel Jimenez ST. #24.
How can i go to the 3 nearby most turistic cities?:
Viña del Mar & Valparaiso by bus: only an hour and a half from Santiago, $3000 the ticket. The bus terminal is at Universidad de Santiago metro Station.
La Serena & Coquimbo by bus: 4 -5 hours from Santiago, $10000 the ticket, bus terminal Alameda, metro station Universidad de Santiago.
La Serena & Coquimbo by plain: one hour trip, from $40.000 plain ticket. Airlines: sky airlines and Lan Chile.
San pedro de atacama by bus: $20000 aprox depending the season. From bus terminal Alameda, 20 hours trip from Santiago.
San pedro de atacama by plain: from $40.000 depending the season, 3 hour flight. Airlines: lan chile and sky airlines.
What you need to see in:
Viña: quinta vergara, flower clock, the coast.
Valparaiso: the port, concepion hill.
La serena: la recova, Av. Del mar, the Elqui valley.
San pedro de Atacama: moon valley, tatio geysers, Chiu Chiu, Atacama salt flats and Uyuni Salt flats.
