This tour will take you the cities of Viña del Mar (the “Garden City”), and Valparaíso (World Heritage site) visiting the main points of historical, social, cultural and economic interest of the Valparaíso area.

From your hotel we start by discovering the history of Viña del Mar by way of its main streets and avenues, museums, and its large houses and palaces before heading along the coast towards Reñaca (stopping to see the wildlife and birds around “Sea lion Rock”), Chile’s most famous beach town, before heading round the bay to Valparaíso. Our first stop in Valparaíso is at the “Artillería” lift, from where it’s possible to see the imposing view of the city, the port activity and further more to see how the city has developed over recent years. 

We continue around and across the “cerros” or folds in the hills of the city  to the San Luis square from where we will discover “Cerro Concepción” on foot, with its 19th Century architecture like the St. Paul’s and Lutheran churches, and the Paseo Atkinson alleyway with its famous Brighton Restaurant. We walk across to “Cerro Alegre” along the Paseo Gervasoni alleyway where the famous Café Turri and the house of the cartoonist Lukas are located. A number of other traditional alleyways will be walked to cross to Cerro Alegre to see “Paseo Yugoslavo” and the Baburitza Palace with another amazing view of the bay, before descending to the “Plaza Sotomayor” via the “El Peral” lift. The tour ends along the main city avenues passing Chile’s parliament building and examples of the historic architecture which help make Valparaíso a World Heritage Site.

As an optional extra we can visit the museum house of Pablo Neruda “La Sebastiana”.