Santiago Travel Blog

Photo from Santiago a Mil. Since 1994, every year the stages and plazas and theaters of Santiago light up for three weeks in January, with Santiago a Mil. The name means Santiago for 1,000, referring to the fact that many of the productions cost 1,000 CLP, or about two dollars. Many are also free, though...

Photo by peregrine blue on Flickr. With just a few weeks left until Chile’s national Fiestas Patrias, an alcohol-infused, rocking good time that marks the end of summer, the beginning of sunshine, and for most people, a stomach-distending amount of food, preparations are already underway. Already...

Photo by bearshapedsphere on Flickr. Used with permission. It might surprise you, if you didn’t know a lot about Chile, to know that it’s got a strong German influence. We eat kuchen with our coffee for our evening snack (once), and even say “yah” for “yes” alot of...

In a move that problably has the whole Chilean craft beer network picking hops more furiously than before (except that most hops are imported here), a beer called Duff, after Homer Simpson’s famed beer will shortly be hitting the Chilean market. CNN Español reports that Duff beer, which will...

El Secreto de Tus Ojos Cine a La Fresca, a production of the Spanish Cultural Center (Centro Cultural de España) here in Santiago is opening its doors for a once a year film event coming up next week. Every night at 9 PM, the cultural center will show movies outdoors in its courtyard at Providencia...

By not francois on Flickr Valentine’s day, like many other Americanish holidays, does not make a giant splash in this city way south of the equator. The truth is, though you can see pink paper hearts and other trappings of the holiday popping up around Santiago, foil wrapped chocolates in pink...

Documentary lovers, park-sitters, passersby and others trying to save some coins for their next humita won’t want to miss this year’s cycle of free documentaries in Parque Forestal. Screenshot from A la Sombra del Moai In a somewhat unpredictable pattern, this event was held in 2004, 2009,...

If you’re looking for a last-minute and down-home thing to do this afternoon and evening, you couldn’t go wrong hopping over to Barrio Yungay, a “typical” (middle-class) neighborhood in downtown Santiago, easily walkable from metros Quinta Normal or Cumming on the green line metro,...

Providencia Contemporary Music Concert Summer is a great time to be a santiaguino (Santiago-dweller), on a permanent or short-stay basis. For those of us who live here, the slower pace and the fact that about half the population is off vacationing at any given time (nearly everyone takes part of or all...

Photo of fireworks over the Entel tower by mabahamo on Flickr. If you’re in Santiago this weekend, looking for the party to end all decades (or was that last year?), you might be a little surprised to find out that most Chileans spend the actual stroke of midnight with their families and close...