Tours & Activities in Santiago

Come with us to discover every corner of the Historical Center, as well as the most interesting cultural aspects of chilean society, politics and current events, with an honest and informed opinion from a local expert.

Besides the great tour, you will receive my exclusive Google Maps guide with absolutely everything you need to know about Santiago, food, wine, nightlife, viewpoints, museums and much more!  

 * Saint Francis Church (Masterpiece of the Colonial Times)
* Alameda Avenue
* Stock Exchange Building
* La Moneda Presidential Palace (Coup D'etat  1973- Dictatorship)
* Former Parlament & Supreme Court
* Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
* Plaza de Armas (Foundation of Santiago)
* The Cathedral of Santiago (Architectural Gem)
* Santa Lucía Hill (Beautiful Views)
* Lastarria neighborhood (Bars, Restaurants, Arts and Nightlife)

*Important before booking* 

We do not wait for people who arrive late, the tour starts on time, so you should consider this before booking. 

The only way to tip is in cash in Chilean pesos, we do not accept foreign currencies or electronic payments.

We do not accept group reservations of more than 6 people. If we detect a group divided into smaller reservations, we will deny the service at the meeting point even if they have confirmed reservations.

This walking tour will help you to understand the essential Chilean history linked to current affairs but in simple and clear words.
You'll also learn about our culture, food and drinks by this lover of the chilean lifestyle . Moreover, along the trip, you will have all the key recommendations on the places to visit, the best restaurants and bars in town, and the things you Must do in Santiago during your stay.
By the end of the tour, you'll get more information about other towns and places to visit in Chile!

We visit all the jewells of the city that not everyone will show you such as:

• Plaza de Armas (main square)
• The pre-Colombus art museum
• Supreme court
• Former national congress
• The Ancient Inca Road
• The Presidential Palace
• Stock market building
• New York (Yes, an area called New York in Santiago)
• Paris and London (Yes, an European neighbourhood in town)
• Former-secret detention center (Pinochet's regime)
• The oldest building in Santiago!
• The opera House
• Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center (former Pinochet's headquarter)
• Lastarria (a gastronomic area full of options also for vegetarians and vegans)

To consider:
-It's a 2:30hrs walk
-Bring water for the trip
-Hat and/or sunscreen are essential
-Average tip 10.000clp per person.

9th coolest neighbourhood in the world- Barrio Yungay

If you're looking for an out-of-the mainstream tour in Santiago de Chile, in this tour you could explore some of the best alleys in Santiago where graffiti have taken over the first neighbourhood ever planned in Chile.
According to Timeout, Yungay is currently having a renaissance due to its  with "accessible, cutting-edge culture and nightlife; brilliant and affordable food and drink" at some incredible holes on the wall.


On this tour we're visiting the most remarkable places in this area (cause it's huge, we're doing only 1/4 of its size:

• The Quinta normal park 
• The human rights museum
• Museum of education (Gabriela Mistral's former school)
• "Cité" concept
• Sound Museum
• The current president's house (believe it or not).
• Casona compañía
• The french barber shop and its restaurant.
• Stop at the Selvaggio bakery before "once time"
• "Casa Gárgola"
• Plaza Yungay
• Álamos palace
• Metro Cumming (final stop)

Come and join me to explore the B-side of downtown Santiago.

We will visit two of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Santiago.

We will start with the normal Parque Quinta to continue with the most colorful and artistic neighborhood in the city, " El Barrio Yungay " which appears on the list of the "coolest" neighborhoods in the world.
Its History will transport us in time through its architecture from the 1920s and to that are added all the GRAFFITI and street art that stands out in the neighborhood.

*Meeting point:

*Inside the normal Quinta Metro Station next to the metro ticket office

Look for the Green Cap!

We are waiting for you!

Walking tour through the beautiful Providencia neighborhood, a modern, commercial, bohemian sector of great cultural importance. Tour aimed at showing the development of Santiago through the last decades of the 20th century, providing an immersive and enriching experience through the city. We will travel through the hidden treasures of the area, discovering Santiago and all its attractions at every step.

We will cover all the nuances of the sector, combining history, art, culture and gastronomy in our stories. We start the tour on the main avenue of the city and end just around lunchtime in the neighborhood with the widest gastronomic offer in the city.

Hello everyone and welcome to Santiago de Chile!
During this tour you will visit the historical center of the city exploring the best that the city has to offer in its history in the most classic places!!

and many recommendations of places where you can enjoy a rich experience in restaurants with typical food and the best local bars with the best craft beers and wines.
I invite you to enjoy this enriching and fun experience Por Santiago.

Embark on a captivating 3-hour bike tour through the heart of Santiago. Our route is designed to immerse you in the city's most famous neighborhoods, all at a leisurely pace that suits everyone. We carefully planned the route using bike lanes, with no uphill climbs, allowing you to fully enjoy the views and sights.

• Discover Barrio Italia, with its colorful murals,  galleries, and  restaurants.
• Enjoy the bohemian charm of Bella Vista
• Experience the modern Las Condes, with its modern buildings and beautiful parks. 

Whether you're interested in history, architecture, or just looking for a unique way to see the city, our tour offers a glimpse into the diverse neighborhoods of Santiago.

Join us for a journey through Santiago. Let's ride together into the heart of the city!

*The bicycles and helmets will be provided by us with no additional cost. 

Santiago has been world recognized as one of Latin America's most important cities! However, sometimes its beginning is forgotten. On this tour, you will be able to visit the key places of downtown Santiago which were the points from where our city started to grow as the huge Metropoli that it is today.
We'll start in Estación Mapocho, to go then to Plaza de Armas, La Moneda, Santa Lucía Hill, Bellas Artes, and Lastarria. 
We will have a great walk that will show you the most important spots in the center of our city, from where the story of our great capital began.

🗣️ 🇪🇸 / 🇧🇷 / 🇬🇧 ✨ TRILINGUAL TOUR! schedule the tour at any available time, I manage groups with different languages 🙂

🍫 If there's no places left for a date, that means it's gonna be good and you better join anyways! See you!

Welcome to Santiago de Chile!!
You've probably already felt the temperature, you've probably already seen the giant mountains that surround our capital, but do you know the story behind it?
The city of Santiago has an enigmatic personality that I invite you to discover together. We will learn about history and culture through the city's heritage, with curious stories and local slang. You will have a complete, fun and definitely interesting experience touring the civic district and getting to know the ✨Essentials of Santiago✨.

Bora! Let's Go! Let's go!

📍 ARMS SQUARE
🏔️🔔 Chile before Chile Who lived in this territory?
🐴🍇 The arrival of the Spanish; The Viceroyalty of Peru, How was the first contact between cultures?
📍 PRECOLUMBIAN MUSEUM
🏔️👁️ Ancestral cultures of Chile
📍 JUSTICE SQUARE
🏴What was the latest thing that happened in Chile these days?
📍 ORPHANS WALK
☕✨Shall we stop for a coffee?
📍 MINT PALACE
🇨🇱Changing of the guard.
🏴The 1973 coup d'état and the Dictatorship.
📍 NEW YORK STREET
📸✨ The most instagrammable photo of Santiago
📍CHRIST OF MAY CHURCH AND MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF SANTIAGO
👁️👄👁️Earthquakes in Chile
⚔️ The Pacific War🇨🇱🇵🇪🇧🇴
🏴 The occupation of Wallmapu
📍 FOREST PARK AND MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
🌳🌿 Green area of the city, former elite neighborhood. Chile's uncovering era.
📍 DIGNITY SQUARE
🏴Social outbreak of 2019.
📍 GABRIELA MISTRAL CULTURAL CENTER (GAM)
📍 LASTARRIA NEIGHBORHOOD
✨End of the tour✨


✨🌈SAFE SPACE🌈✨

An offbeat walk where the only thing that will be to the beat is the sound of our feet.
 
Together we discover Santiago’s fresh fruit, veg, (and everything in between) market in La Vega Central.
Our feet bounce off the tourist path (like the General Cemetery) and we will interact with true Chilenos as they hustle over the capital city, tasting, smelling, bartering, and bantering.

Are you a traveler with an inkling of excitement and enthusiasm for culture? This tour will fill your inner desires. This is not your average tour! A tour where you should expect the unexpected and discover what it is like to be a Santiago local.

Charge your camera and slap on some sunscreen friends! A personal tour for life’s culture seekers.

This free tour will take you back in time and discover that before the arrival of the Spanish in the city, two large indigenous communities inhabited and coexisted: the Incas and the Mapuches. You will learn about the oldest and most important architectural landmarks concentrated in the heart of the city and how they merge with the new lifestyle of Chilean society.

The tour has an educational purpose, a critical view of the city and information of interest so that you can enjoy and broaden your perspective, above all, providing information of interest that you don't get on a conventional tour.

Also during the tour you will get information about places of interest: restaurants, bars, places to visit in the city and its surroundings so that you can make the most of your stay in Chile.

During the free tour we will make the following stops/visits:

• Plaza de Armas-Plaza Mayor (meeting point),
• Chilean post office
• National History Museum
• Municipality of Santiago
• The Cathedral and the Archbishopric
• Portals: Bulnes and Fernando Concha
• Royal Company Cinema
• Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
• Former National Congress-Church of the Jesuits
• Palace of Courts of Justice
• Larrain Palace
• coffee haiti
• La Moneda building
• Diego portales statue
• Grand Hotel Carrera
• Salvador Allende statue (end of the tour)

Considerations/Recommendations:
- It's a 2:00 hrs walk (approximately)
- Bring water for the tour.
- Essential hat and/or sunscreen
- Come prepared to have fun!

Get to know Chile's nature, one step away from Santiago!
When you book this tour, you will visit the Quebrada de Macul, a natural park where you can learn about Chile's flora and fauna.
This excursion will take you deep into the mountains, an experience you will certainly not forget.
We will meet at the entrance of the natural park and enter the Quebrada de Macul. We begin the ascent through a small valley, through a forest, with beautiful views. We will try to reach the bottom of the ravine, where there are two small waterfalls. Finally, we start the return to the park entrance, passing along the banks of the stream that flows through the creek.
The hike is 8 km (5 miles), round trip.
It is a hike of moderate difficulty, designed for people who enjoy hiking and nature. It is recommended to wear appropriate footwear for walking on rocky terrain. We also recommend carrying a backpack with water, a snack, sun protection and protection against the cold, depending on the season.
We finish the tour at the starting point, that is, at the entrance of the Quebrada de Macul Natural Park, around 2:00 pm.

¡Ven a hacer avistamiento de aves a pasos de Santiago!
Visitaremos las laderas cercanas a la Quebrada de Macul, en búsqueda de las aves presentes en el sector. 
Intentaremos avistar aves tales como codornices, perdiz chilena, cernícalos, águilas mora, peucos, chunchos, tórtolas cordilleranas, loicas, tencas, pitíos, carpinteritos, colibríes, aguiluchos, diucas, tordos, chercanes, cachuditos, entre otras. 
En algunas ocasiones, con algo de suerte, también es posible avistar cóndores en las inmediaciones.
Haremos un recorrido de baja a mediana intensidad.
También observaremos insectos, mamíferos, reptiles y plantas propias del bosque esclerófilo chileno.
Te recogeré en Santiago, para luego dirigirnos a la Quebrada de Macul y sus inmediaciones.  
¡No te pierdas esta experiencia única!

Join us through a walking adventure around the city!

We visit and chat about architecture, side streets and both political and cultural destinations, explaining blank spaces you may have in your knowledge of Santiago.

We'll teach you why Santiago has so many street dogs, what it means to be Chilean and our bizarre coffee culture. You will go through streets with graffiti and murals, visit Plaza de Armas, and learn about our past in front of La Moneda Presidential palace.

This tour will help you love the city with as much passion as we do!

Get comfortable clothes and footwear on and be ready to ask every single question that comes to mind, as our red and white striped t-shirt Wally guide takes you through the city!

Free walking tour Barrio San Borja and the history of Gam.
In this tour you will learn how these buildings are related to the contemporary history of Chile.
As well as details that no one will tell you.

We will visit:

• The gam cultural center with all its hidden architectural and historical details.
• We will cross to go to the towers of San Borja
• We will finish in the park of San Borja