This tour is a real treasure for people who enjoy the mountains as well as the urban zones. We will go around different neighbourhoods of Santiago where you will enjoy different views of the city. We will visit a local artisans market where you will have an opportunity to learn about traditional handicrafts. At the end of the tour, we will visit the Andes and a temple of Templo Bahá'í de Sudamérica and its gardens.
At your hotel
We depart from your hotel with a vehicle and start this very unique experience going by the eastern area of Santiago. You are going to enjoy different views of the city.
After about twenty minutes we are going to do the first stop in an old area, which used to be out of the city and today is surrounded by it.
Currently, there is an artisans market where the local expert is going to give a ten minutes talk about the general characteristics of the handy crafts; how they are originated along the very different regions of the country, this is a testimony of the diversity of raw material and how people have created crafts that are part of their own identity.
In this area, you are going to see and enjoy for forty-five minutes a large number of small shops which show part of the folk and the patrimony of Chile or you could just get a coffee or try some of the great local fresh fruit juice
Then we are going back to our transportation to continue the tour, going by different neighbourhoods, when reaching our next stop you will see the social class differences in the house's construction too.
Arriving at our next point you walk for just about ten minutes up a hundred steps, there you will be on the foot of the largest mountain range in the world, The Andes.
The views and the gardens will make you forget you are in the capital city of Chile. This is a very nice area and totally unique as well as for the geographical location of the building you are going to visit.
This temple took about sixteen years to be finished. The local expert is going to give a fifteen minutes talk to explain about this incredible construction.
Afterwards, you will have thirty more minutes to enjoy the gardens, the views, and the spirit of a mountainous country. We are going to take our transportation back to the hotel
At your hotel
Expert local guide in English
Transportation
Temple lecture
Beverages or Snacks
Good walking shoes recommended
I teach Spanish and English independently so I can accommodate my lessons depending on the tour dates depending on the programs.