Tours

Sernatur the national tourism service, maintains a listing of experienced individual tour guides who will take you on a half-day tour of Santiago and the surrounding area for about 25,000 pesos. These tours are a great way to get your bearings when you have just arrived in the city. They can also greatly enrich your visit. Altué Active Travel arranges adventure trips such as white-water rafting on nearby rivers and hiking to the mouths of volcanoes. Chilean Travel Services and Sportstour handle tours of Santiago and other parts of Chile. With more than a dozen locations, Turismo Cocha, founded in 1951, is one of the city's biggest private tour operators.