Chile’s Garden City on the Pacific

Santiago: Valparaíso, Viña del Mar & Casablanca Valley Tour

The classic coast day from Santiago and one of the best-reviewed tours in Chile, with more than two thousand reviews. A guide walks you through Valparaíso’s UNESCO-listed hills, you drive along Viña del Mar’s seafront past the Flower Clock and Wulff Castle, and you stop for a tasting in the Casablanca Valley.

• Walk Valparaíso’s hills and ride a historic funicular
• See the Flower Clock and the seafront of Viña del Mar
• Wine tasting at a Casablanca Valley winery on the way

Santiago: Valparaíso, Viña del Mar & Casablanca Wine Tour

A small-group alternative to the big coach tours, rated 4.8 by well over a thousand travellers. The day balances time on foot in Valparaíso, ocean views in Viña del Mar and a proper tasting at a real vineyard rather than a quick stop.

• Relaxed small-group pace with a local guide
• Valparaíso’s murals and viewpoints, Viña del Mar’s coast
• Tasting at a working vineyard in the Casablanca Valley

Santiago: Valparaíso + Viña del Mar Classic Guided Sightseeing Tour

Excellent value and very well reviewed: a full day on the coast with a guide, a local lunch and the main sights of both cities. A good choice if you want everything organised at a budget price.

• Valparaíso’s murals, viewpoints and historic centre
• Viña del Mar’s Flower Clock and seafront
• Local lunch included, plus a stop with llamas on the way

Valparaíso Tour: Street Art, Funiculars & Port (6 pax)

The best way to spend a morning in Valparaíso if you are staying in Viña del Mar: take the train to Puerto, meet your guide by the Prat pier and spend two hours climbing through the murals and lanes of the hills, with a funicular ride included. Rated 4.8 by hundreds of walkers.

• Groups of no more than six people
• Ride a historic funicular up into the hills
• Street art, colourful houses and hidden viewpoints

Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Casablanca, Reñaca & Oceanic Rock

The widest-ranging day trip from Santiago, adding the north coast — Reñaca and the dramatic Roca Oceánica near Concón — to the usual Valparaíso and Viña del Mar programme. Big groups and a full schedule, but a lot of coast for the price.

• The most-booked coast tour, with thousands of reviews
• Reñaca beach and the Roca Oceánica headland
• Valparaíso, Viña del Mar and a Casablanca wine stop

Santiago: Valparaíso, Llama Vineyard & Concón Dune Sunset

A later-starting coast day that ends the right way: watching the sun sink into the Pacific from the Concón dunes. A newer tour with a small number of very positive reviews so far.

• Sunset from the top of the Concón dunes
• Valparaíso’s hills and street art
• A vineyard stop where llamas roam

Valparaíso: Must-See Sites Walking Tour With A Guide

A three-hour guided walk that covers Valparaíso’s essentials, from the port and its squares to the painted hills above. Easy to combine with a morning train from Viña del Mar.

• Plaza Sotomayor, the port and the historic centre
• Funiculars, stairways and Cerro Alegre
• The best viewpoints over the bay

Casas del Bosque: Wine Tasting, Lunch & Transfer

A more upmarket wine day from the coast: a guided visit and tasting at Casas del Bosque, followed by a long lunch among the vines, with transport there and back. Pricier than the combination tours but a far more relaxed experience of the valley.

• One of Casablanca’s best-known wineries
• Guided tasting and lunch at the winery restaurant
• Transfer from the coast included

Flower Clock (Reloj de Flores)

Viña del Mar’s most photographed landmark

A working clock whose face is a bed of flowers, set into the grassy slope of Cerro Castillo opposite Caleta Abarca beach. Installed in 1962, the year Viña del Mar hosted World Cup matches, it has become the city’s symbol — and the first photo stop on almost every coast tour.

Quinta Vergara

Park, palace and home of the song festival

The former estate of the Vergara family, founders of Viña del Mar, is now a public park of exotic trees around the Venetian-style Palacio Vergara, home of the city’s fine-arts museum. At its heart is the open-air amphitheatre where the Viña del Mar International Song Festival has been held every February since 1960.

Wulff Castle (Castillo Wulff)

A little castle on the rocks above the Pacific

Built in 1906 for the merchant Gustavo Adolfo Wulff on a rocky outcrop of Avenida Marina, this turreted mansion is one of the most photographed buildings on the coast. Today it is a municipal cultural centre with changing exhibitions and a glass-floored passage over the waves.

Viña del Mar’s Beaches

Caleta Abarca, El Sol, Acapulco and more

A chain of city beaches runs along the seafront, from little Caleta Abarca by the Flower Clock to the long urban sands of Acapulco, Los Marineros and El Sol, with the old iron Muelle Vergara pier in between. The sea is cold — the Humboldt Current sees to that — but the promenade, the sunsets and the summer atmosphere are the point.

Concón Dunes

Sandboarding and sunsets above the sea

Just north of Reñaca, a protected field of huge sand dunes rises straight up from the coast road — a nature sanctuary with views over the whole bay. Climb for the sunset, try sandboarding where it is allowed, then head down to Concón for its famous seafood empanadas and the Roca Oceánica headland.

Valparaíso

UNESCO-listed port city of hills, funiculars and murals

Viña’s older, wilder neighbour is only about twenty minutes away by train. Its historic quarter, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003, climbs a jumble of hills covered in colourful houses, linked by century-old funiculars (ascensores), stairways and some of the best street art in Latin America.