Articles tagged with "Chile"
Chile holds four climates that have almost nothing to say to each other, arranged in a line. This guide takes them in order from north to south, because that is the only order in which they make sense.
The most useful thing to know about entering Chile is not about visas at all. It is a piece of paper: immigration gives you a tourist card, you are expected to produce it when you leave, and there is a defined way to replace it if it goes missing.
Chile runs from a hyper-arid desert to the edge of the Antarctic, so the month that suits one end of it rarely suits the other. This guide takes the regions separately, and then adds the three fixed dates that a Chilean itinerary should be planned around for reasons of civic life rather than…
Chile's newest World Heritage property was inscribed in 2021 and protects the settlement and mortuary sites of the Chinchorro culture, whose people lived on this coast from about 7400 years before the present. Their mummification predates Egypt's by thousands of years.
The Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaiso was inscribed in 2003, and the protected area is small: 23.2 hectares with a buffer zone around it. What it protects is an unplanned nineteenth century port built into a steep amphitheater of hills.
Rapa Nui National Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1995 and covers 6,666 hectares of the island Chile administers as part of the Valparaiso Region. What is protected is a living Polynesian culture, not a ruin, and that distinction governs how a visitor should behave there.