Upon arrival to Santiago, you will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel.

Upon arrival at the Santiago airport, receive assistance and transfer to the hotel. On arrival, enjoy the delights of Santiago with an afternoon Santiago city tour. Explore the historic-colonial downtown area, Main Square, Cathedral, Government Palace, Santa Lucia hill, bohemian, artistic, culinary Lastarria and Bellavista neighborhoods. Experience the lively atmosphere of the Fine Arts Museum and the pleasant Forestal riverside park. Yampu Travelers will also have the oportunity to stop here at the bohemian and cultural area to enjoy a coffee or delicious ice tea at the trendy Emporio La Rosa ice cream parlor (or similar). Continue towards the eastern sector of the capital, main financial City Centre, surrounded by major hotels, design boutiques, restaurants and chic open-air cafes.

Dinner tonight will be at the lively and sophisticated "Bocanariz resto-bar" in the easy-going Lastarria neighborhood. Still relatively new, it offers the unique premise of allowing diners to choose between a straightforward dining experience, and a full-on wine tasting, overseen by experts. Return and overnight.
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Taste the contrast of the traditional cuisine of Santiago and visit the market with a modern and gourmet scenery.

This will be the best way to know the City of Santiago and a perfect way to start the trip in Chile. First, be picked up from the hotel. Next, head to the market area where you will experience for yourself, different food sampling and drinks. Select ingredients that will form the basis for the menu prepared by the chef for us.

Transfer to El Galleon restaurant and enjoy lunch in the interactive kitchen.

Return to the Hotel.
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Colchagua Valley is located 180 km (110 mi) south of Santiago. The southernmost portion of the Rapel Valley is one of Chile's best known wine regions and has earned much appreciation for its full-bodied Cabernet, Carmenere, Syrah, and Malbec. This region's wine regularly appears high on the world's lists of leading wines. The majority of the wineries are concentrated in the center of the valley, although new plantations are working their way up hillsides to explore the western frontier toward the sea.

Vina Viu Manent is a Chilean winery owned by the Viu family. It was founded in 1935 when the Catalonian immigrant, Miguel Viu-Garcia and his two sons Agustin and Miguel Viu-Manent came across Bodegas Viu in Santiago, Chile. They bottled and sold wine in the local market under the "Vinos Viu" brand. In 1966 Miguel Viu Manent fulfilled his long-time dream of making his own wines when he acquired the Hacienda San Carlos de Cunaco in Colchagua. This traditional estate included 150 hectares of vineyards planted to noble, pre-phylloxera vines, as well as a winery and manor house. Viu Manent produces Pinot Noir, Merlot, Carmenere, Malbec, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Viognier, and Semillon.

We will then continue toward Colchagua Valley's main plaza to have lunch at local restaurant.

After lunch we can visit the Museum Colchagua which is the largest and most complete museum in Chile; with a large collection of pieces collected from the pre-historic era. Modern racing cars, natives, and Andean from old pre-Hispanic cultures along the continent, rescued pieces from the Second World War from different European countries, old carriages, fossils, unique handicraft and furniture. A copy of the mine up north where the Chilean miners were rescued in year 2011, the biggest mine accident in Chilean history, is also found here.
Afterward this tour, you will continue your journey heading to Millahue Valley. Our wine lovers will have the pleasure to taste the VIK iconic wine, an excellent blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenere, produced with a holistic concept: The synergy between a great terroir with 12 different valleys all high in precision viticulture, technology, passion, art and architecture is incredible. You will discover a one-of-a kind winery and enjoy a private barrel wine tasting. We also invite you to connect with the peace of nature with horseback riding, mountain biking, or trekking. The Vik Experience will not leave you indifferent! Vik produces Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenere, Syrah, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc.

At the appropriate time you will be met at your hotel to transfer to your Santa Cruz hotel.
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Lapostolle was founded by Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle and her husband Cyril de Bournet in 1994. The Marnier Lapostolle family, founders and owners of the world-renowned liqueur Grand Marnier, is famous for producing spirits and liqueurs, but the family has also been involved in wine making for generations. In creating Lapostolle, the family has pursued the same uncompromising approach to quality that made Grand Marnier a global success. Its objective is as simple as it is ambitious: to create world-class wines using French expertise and the superb terroirs of Chile.

Lapostolle winery is located in the town of Cunaco, right next to Santa Cruz. It is the original winery, where Lapostolle was founded in 1994 and today it is here where our Casa and Cuvee Alexandre wines are produced. Lapostolle owns 370 hectares in three different vineyards and produce a total of 200.000 cases spread over Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenere, and Syrah. With a traditional Chilean old hacienda style, it has a production capacity of 3.300.000 liters in stainless steel and French oak tanks, and more than 3.500 French Oak Barrels. Lapostolle is distributed in more than 60 countries around the world.

At the appropriate time you will be met at your hotel to transfer to your Santiago hotel.
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The tour will depart from Santiago to the coastline, located 120 kilometers of Santiago, passing through the fertile Curacavi and Casablanca Valleys, its vineyards, fruit plantations and forest reserves. While traveling this route, visit two important cities, Vina del Mar and Valparaiso, a port city founded in the XVI century and declared a World heritage site by UNESCO.

The promenade includes a panoramic tour by the emblematic places of Valparaiso, such as National Congress, O'Higgins Park, Italia Park, Victoria Square, Sotomayor Square and Prat dock located in the same port. Next, visit the Museum of the famous Chilean poet, writer, and Nobel prize-winner in Literature, Pablo Neruda. The house was the dream place of Pablo Neruda to escape from bustling Santiago. In the house, collections of old navy maps and other paintings are kept. There are many other relics of the port and strange objects, such as music boxes and an antique carved wooden carousel horse.

Walk through the wonderful viewpoints of Atkinson and Gervasoni, located in the most important hills of Valparaiso, Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepcion. Also, one will use its old and picturesque cable cars, which are still connecting this city. Enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant of the area before continuing this beautiful seaside route to Vina del Mar. Once in The Garden city, walk past the picturesque Flower Clock and go through the Peru Avenue with its traditional Casino and fine Hotel Del Mar, founded in 1930. Finally, see and take a picture of an authentic Moai from the Easter Island located on the outside of the important Museum of Paleontology and Anthropology Fonck.

Return to the Hotel.
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At the appropriate time, you will be met at the hotel and transferred to the airport for the flight from Santiago to Puerto Montt.

Upon arrival to Puerto Montt, you will be met at the airport and transferred to Puerto Varas hotel.

Bordering Lake Llanquihue, arrive at the city of Frutillar, founded in 1856 as a port of embarkation for the German settlers who came to the area. On the way, take the chance to appreciate companies devoted to the cultivation of salmon, which are of great importance to the country's seafood exports.

The next destination shall be the "Se Cocina" restaurant which has the kitchen at the center of its premises; everyone can gather around and participate in the cooking of the various dishes served here. One will be able to choose the ingredients from the vegetable garden and enjoy various tastings of very typical food of the area.

In the afternoon, after visiting the Colonial Museum, free time to explore the waterfront and enjoy the exquisite pastries of the German cuisine and then what better way to end the day than to visit the Salzburg, traditional craft brewery and enjoy Beer tasting and a gift of one beer of choice before returning to the hotel.
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Breakfast at the hotel and morning at leisure. Transfer to the Puerto Montt airport and take a domestic flight to Santiago to connect with your international flight home.