Santiago de Chile

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Santiago de Chile is the capital of Chile, a country on the west coast of South America.

	santiago de chile Travel Guide : 1 Districts 2 Understand 3 Get in 3.1 By plane 3.2 By car 3.3 By bus 4 Get around 5 See 6 Do 7 Learn 8 Work 9 Buy 10 Eat 11 Sleep 12 Contact 13 Stay safe 14 Get out 15 External links

Districts

• El Centro
• Barrio Brasíl
• Barrio Suecia
• Barrio París Londres
• Barrio Bellavista - The neighbourhood where most of the nightlife is concentrated.
• Plaza Nuñoa

Understand

Get in

By plane

Santiago (SCEL or SCL) is the main gateway from travellers around the world. All major airline alliances include Santiago in their network, i.e. Oneworld, Star Alliance and Skyteam

• Qantas and LAN operate a code-sharing flight from Sydney to Santiago via Auckland, New Zealand every week. It's at least 12 hours each way, with a stop in Auckland, but the cabin crew are attentive to a fault.

• Air Canada operates a daily flight from Toronto

• American Airlines and LAN operate flights from Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Dallas. Some of them will have layovers in Guayaquil or Lima.

• Air France, Iberia (code-sharing with LAN), LAN and Lufthansa operate daily flights into Santiago from their hubs via Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires or directly.

• Air Madrid is the only charter airline which serves Santiago on a regular basis. Flight originate from Madrid, Barcelona and Tenerife Norte. Prices start at ?500 (US$600) per round-trip. (note: meal is excluded!)

Please note that flight times from Europe vary between 18 hours from Frankfurt to 12 hours from Madrid and is considerably tireing! Routes to Europe are used with the Airbus 340 on this night flight route. Airlines serving North America mainly opt for the Boeing 767 on their routes to Chile.

By car

By bus

There are bus connections to all major destinations on the continent.

From Mendoza in Argentina it's a beautiful eight hour bus ride crossing the Andes. The border crossing is at about 4000m. Be aware that it is not allowed to bring fruit, vegetables or animal products into Chile, and all luggage will get checked at the border.

The Principals Bus Terminals are located at:

• Terminal Alameda: Avda. B. O'Higgins 3750 (U. Santiago subway station, Line 1). Private station for Turbus and Pullman buses. National and international departures. Phone: 7762424
• Terminal Santiago: Av. B. O'Higgins 3848 (Pila del Ganso subway station, Line 1). Phone: 3761755
• Terminal Los Héroes: Tucapel Jiménez 21 (Los Heroes subway station, Line 1). Phone: 4200099

Get around

• Metro - Santiago has one of the best metrosystems in the world, from 6.30 to 22.30 hrs
• Bus - Bus "Micro" travel can be a great adventure. Since the drivers are paid directly from the number of passengers they carry - and since there are no timetables of when buses need to be at stops, there is a constant competition between drivers to get to fares first. The driving can seem wild and frenzied. There also is not an incentive for the drivers to let passengers off at stops that don't have people waiting (no new fares to collect) - so sometimes they will conveniently not hear your request to stop. But overall the buses are cheap, quick (though not as fast as the metro), and exciting.

• Plane Chile has a very good airport infrastructure. The main hub for flights in Chile is the Arturo Merino Benitez Airport (http://www.aeropuertosantiago.cl) in Santiago from where several airlines serve even the remotest corners of the country. These airlines are LAN, Sky Airline and Aerolineas del Sur. When travelling within Chile please consider reserving your tickets before entering the country. It is recommended use flight coupons which can be bought at LAN when you also purchased your flight to Chile with them. These can also be processed online. Unfortunately the other to airlines do not have any internet service available yet and you should consider comparing fares by asking your local travel agency or by phone.
  Because of the shape of the country, many routes are served with several, time-consuming layovers in between. You might take this into account as you can have up to 4 stops until you reach your destination! (e.g. for a flight from Punta Arenas to Arica: Punta Arenas (PUQ)-Puerto Montt(PMC)-Santiago(SCL)-Antofagasta(ANF)-Iquique(IQQ)-Arica(ARI)) Domestic routes are served by Airbus 319 or Airbus 320 when flying with LAN express (http://www.lan.com) as well as Boeing 737-200 when flying Sky Airline (http://www.skyairline.cl) and Aerolineas del Sur. (B737-200s are remarkably older and noisier!)

See

• Parque Metropolitano - This vast park is home to Cerro San Cristóbal. From the top there is a beautiful view over the city and, on a clear day, the Andes. The summit can be reached by funicular, cable car or a long hike. In the park there is also a botanical garden, zoo and a nice swimming pool.
• Cerro Santa Lucia - A park with nice fountains and stairs leading up to the top. From there you have a nice view over the skyscrapers of Santiago.
• San Jose de Maipo
• Pirque
• Forestal Park
• La Moneda Palace
• Hidalgo Castle

Do

Learn

Work

Buy

Santiago Have a lot of Malls the principal are:

• Mall Plaza Vespucio
• Mall Plaza Oeste
• Mall Parque Arauco
• Mall Alto las condes
• Mall Florida Center
• Mall Plaza Norte
• Mall Marina Arauco
• Mall Plaza del Trébol

Eat

The Downtown area is dotted with restaurants. One worth a visit is the Bar Nacional, which offers hearty meals and a range of local and imported drinks.

Terremoto(Earthquake): typical Chilean drink that consists in a mix of pineapple ice cream with pipeño (like white wine).

Sleep

On the edge of the Barrio Paris Londres, the Hotel Fundador is conveniently located for sightseeing. It also has a good quality restaurant. Another place is Providencia, a quiet nightboardhood you can go to SuitesChile (www.suiteschile.com) apparts with gym, pool, internet, tv, near restaurants, shooping and bar.

Contact

SERNATUR (http://www.sernatur.cl) (Tourism National Service). Main office: Av. Providencia 1550. Phone: 7318336 ? 7318337.

Stay safe

By South American standards, Santiago is a safe city, but visitors should be aware of pickpocketing and other petty crimes. But if you compare Santiago with another cities in South America, is by far pretty secure.

Get out

• Easter Island - LanChile has daily flights to the magical Easter Island.

External links

• American Airlines (http://www.aa.com)
• Aerolineas Argentinas (http://www.aerolineas.com)
• Air Madrid (http://www.airmadrid.com)
• Air Canada (http://www.aircanada.com)
• Air France (http://www.airfrance.com)
• Iberia (http://www.iberia.com)
• LAN (http://www.lan.com)
• Lufthansa (http://www.lufthansa.com)
• Pullman Busses (http://www.pullman.cl)
• Transantiago Busses (http://www.transantiago.cl)
• Tur-Bus (http://www.turbus.cl)
• Living Santiago (http://www.livingsantiago.com)
• Saborizante (http://www.saborizante.com)

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