Insight Guides Chile & Easter Islands (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

Description

Let us guide you on every step of your travels.

From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, Insight Guide Chile and Easter Island, is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Chile, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like the Atacama Desert, Torres del Paine, Easter Island, Tierra de Fuego and the Colchagua Wine Valley, together with hidden cultural gems like the chucrches of Chiloe.

This book is ideal for travellers seeking immersive cultural experiences, from exploring the streets of Santiago and Chiloe, to discovering the Juan Fernandez Islands and the southern fjords.

- In-depth on history and culture: explore the country's vibrant history and culture, and understand its modern-day life, people and politics 
- Excellent Editor's Choice: uncover the best of Chile, which highlights the most special places to visit around the region 
- Invaluable and practical maps: get around with ease thanks to detailed maps that pinpoint the key attractions featured in every chapter
- Informative tips: plan your travels easily with an A to Z of useful advice on everything from climate to tipping
- Inspirational colour photography: discover the best destinations, sights, and excursions, and be inspired by stunning imagery
- Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
- Covers: Santiago, Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, El Norte Chico, El Norte Grande, the Juan Fernandez Islands, the Central Valley, the Lake District, Isla de Chiloe, Aisen, Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego and Easter Island. 

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

Sujets

• América del Sur
• Travel
• Easter Island
• South America
• Chile
• Chili

Informations

• Publié par: Apa Publications
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781839051746
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book
This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Chile, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Chile. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Chile are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Chile. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

© 2019 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd




Table of Contents
Chile’s Top 10 Attractions
Editor’s Choice
Introduction: Bienvenidos
Earth, Fire, and Ice
Decisive Dates
The Wild Frontier
Independence and Prosperity
A Century of Upheavals
The Chileans
The Mapuches
A Cultural Renaissance
A Taste of Chile
Fruit of the Vine
Wild Chile
Adventure Activities
Insight: The Skills and Thrills of the Rodeo
Introduction: Places
Santiago
Santiago Excursions
Valparaíso and Viña del Mar
El Norte Chico
El Norte Grande
Insight: The Atacama Desert
Juan Fernández Islands
Central Valley
The Lake District
Isla de Chiloé
Aisén
Insight: Cruising Chile’s Southern Seas
Magallanes
Insight: The Pick of the National Parks
Tierra del Fuego
Easter Island
Travel Tips: Transportation
Travel Tips: A–Z
Travel Tips: Language
Travel Tips: Further Reading


Chile’s Top 10 Attractions



Top Attraction 1



Atacama Desert. It may be the driest place on earth, but the Atacama Desert is rich in natural and geological treats as well as indigenous history. Don’t miss the El Tatio geysers and their stunning display of geothermal energy as they thrust columns of steam into the cold morning air. For more information, click here.
Nowitz Photography/Apa Publications


Top Attraction 2



Valparaíso’s ascensores. These funiculars may look rickety but are, in fact, quite safe and afford spectacular views of the bay. One of the most curious is the Ascensor Polanco , which rises vertically through the heart of the hill up to a suspended walkway. For more information, click here.
TIPS Images


Top Attraction 3



Torres del Paine. The undisputed queen of Chile’s national parks lies at the southern tip of the Andes mountain chain. It can only be visited comfortably in the southern hemisphere summer (Dec–Mar), but it offers exhilarating walks amid scenery of unparalleled beauty. For more information, click here.
Chile Tourist Board


Top Attraction 4



Tierra del Fuego. There are few places where it is possible to be so alone as on this windswept island at the tip of South America. You’re more likely to see guanacos and, in the woods, beavers than other people. For more information, click here.
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Top Attraction 5



Chile’s southern fjords. With their inlets, islands, glaciers, and dense forests, the fjords are a transport engineer’s nightmare, but the boats that ply the channels are a nature lover’s dream. For more information, click here.
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Top Attraction 6



Volcán Villarrica. Look down into the molten lava, listen to its tectonic rumblings and sniff the sulfur; the crater of the conical snow-capped volcano is a relatively easy one-day hike from Pucón, and a sight few will ever forget. For more information, click here.
Nowitz Photography/Apa Publications


Top Attraction 7



The Colchagua Wine Valley. Although badly damaged by the 2010 earthquake, this prestigious wine-growing area retains its old rural traditions, alongside state-of-the-art wineries and boutique hotels. During the vendimia , or grape harvest, which takes place between early March and mid-April, there are numerous festivals. For more information, click here.
Chile Tourist Board


Top Attraction 8



Easter Island. Famous for its mysterious stone statues, this Polynesian island is 2,000km (1,240 miles) away from the nearest inhabited land, farther than any other island in the worldFor more information, click here .
Nowitz Photography/Apa Publications


Top Attraction 9



Palacio de la Moneda. Santiago’s presidential palace is still the seat of government, although no longer the president’s home. This is the building that Chilean Air Force fighter planes bombed during the 1973 military coup; its courtyards are open to the public. For more information, click here.
Nowitz Photography/Apa Publications


Top Attraction 10



The churches of Chiloé. Notable for their unusual wooden architecture, these churches often stand alone by the sea where they were built by Jesuit missionaries during the colonial period. Some of them have been listed as World Heritage sites. For more information, click here.
Nowitz Photography/Apa Publications


Editor’s Choice




Kayaking on Lago Grey.
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Best National Parks

Lauca. At the heart of this national park on the border with Bolivia, the Chungará Lake lies at 4,500 meters (14,760ft) above sea level against a backdrop of snow-capped volcanoes and teeming with birdlife, including flamingos. For more information, click here
Nevado Tres Cruces. Overshadowed by Ojos del Salado, the world’s highest volcano, this national park is off the beaten track but includes several Andean lakes and part of the spectacular Salar de Maricunga salt flat. For more information, click here
Vicente Pérez Rosales. Founded in 1926, this vast national park, at the eastern end of Lago Llanquihue, has some of the most beautiful countryside in the Lake District and is dominated by the Volcán Osorno. For more information, click here


Best Adventure Sports

White-water rafting. From the Maipo River near Santiago to the Futaleufú River in the far south, Chile’s fast-flowing mountain rivers are prized by rafters, both for their scenery and their range of difficulty. For more information, click here
Surfing. The pick of Chile’s surfing beaches is Punta de Lobos in Central Chile, but there are also plenty of good beaches in the north. The coastline around Antofagasta is also popular with kite-surfers. For more information, click here
Mountain biking. The Carretera Austral in Aisén is the ultimate goal of mountain bikers in Chile, but the Lake District offers many less challenging, but equally beautiful, routes. For more information, click here
Sea kayaking. A kayak is a great way to explore the Patagonian fjords, and the inlets and remote islands of Chiloé. For more information, click here
Mountaineering. Climbers from around the world visit Chile, attracted by peaks like Aconcagua, the Ojos del Salado volcano, and the “towers” of Torres del Paine. click here
Paragliding. Although paragliding is practiced at many places along the coast of central Chile, Iquique in the north is by far the most popular center. For more information, click here


Best Food and Wine

Fruit. Chilean restaurants only too rarely serve the fresh fruit that is one of the country’s joys, whether peaches, apricots, and figs in summer, grapes in fall, or c