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Located in an exclusive residential neighbourhood of Las Condes, only 20 minutes away from Santiago city centre Grand Hyatt Santiago is considered as one of the finest hotels in Chile and Latin America. The hotel is near to many local attractions including Pueblito de los Dominicos Market, Palacio de la Moneda and San Cristobal Hill. This five-star Grand Hyatt property provides an impeccable service and deluxe facilities to satisfy even the most discerning of hotel guests. This luxury property has also received many awards from prestigious publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, Latin Trade and Travel + Leisure.

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Located in the most prestigious city’ suburb – El Golf and only 30 minutes from Santiago International Airport, the Ritz Carlton Santiago is the only Chilean Hotel awarded as the Nº1 hotel in South America (in 2007). This location is also 38 miles from Valle Nevado Ski Resort and 70 miles from Valparaiso Port and Vina Del Mar Beach. Designed for business and leisure travellers with high expectations, the hotel offers its guests great service and facilities. The Ritz Carlton Santiago is an ideal place to rest and enjoy the natural beauty of the city.

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Located minutes away from the Providencia business district in the central core of Santiago, the San Cristobal Tower is part of Starwood Hotels and Resorts’ Luxury Collection. Situated very close to the city’s popular shopping centers and attractions, this luxury property offers its guests exquisite surroundings, unique service and quality. Offering many marvelous modern facilities and amenities, San Cristobal Tower was considered as one of the “Top 10 Hotels in South America” by Condé Nast Traveler’s readers.

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A two-hour flight west of Santiago, this rugged isle earned its fame from the 18th-century sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose wild spell as a castaway there inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe. The aura of adventure still endures. Travelers arrive on a seven-seater plane, then take a 30-minute speedboat ride to the town of San Juan Bautista. At the new Crusoe Island Lodge, all 15 bungalows are made with recycled materials and wood from the nearby forest. Get a good rest and the attention you deserve by choosing one of the 15 lodges and suites with terrace overlooking the Bay Pangal for accommodation.

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The Aubrey is a luxurious boutique hotel situated in a bohemian district of Bellavista, Santiago de Chile. The hotel housed in 1927 mansion was once the patrician home of a Chilean railway magnate. With a total renovation completed in March 2010, this is a perfect choice for your relaxing vacation.

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Founded in 1541, Santiago de Chile is one of the more attractive capital cities of South America. With a population of nearly six million, it is a modern metropolis and you can find almost everything you need. Whether you are here on business or pleasure travel, Santiago is of interest to many visitors.

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Portillo is a smaller ski resort located in the Andes Mountains of Chile, about 100 km northeast of Santiago. Over the past 60 years, Portillo has earned a reputation as an excellent destination for skiers and snowboarders from all over the world. The ski season starts mid June, and goes to as late as October.

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“We cannot change our past, we can only learn from what we have lived. This is our opportunity and our challenge.”
The museum is situated in Santiago, Chile‘s capital city. It shows a permanent observance of the human rights violations committed in the period of the Pinochet dictatorship during 1973-1990. You can see the efforts made by successive governments and victims organizations to establish and recognize the truth of the violations, to find the disappeared, to obtain justice, to provide reparation to victims and to learn from and remember this brutal time. It it provided information and graphic materials of relative case studies from different countries, displayed on a large world map.

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Valle Nevado ski resort has some of the highest quality snow in Chile, because of its location at 3 thousand meters of height. It counts with modern infrastructure and the best equipments to give and excellent service to its visitors, that want to enjoy the white sports in the wonderful summits of chilean Mountain.

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The Tierra Atacama Hotel is sited between the bright blue sky of Chile and its terracotta mountains, among lush green vegetation and rocky path and burbling river, which make you feel there is nowhere in the world you’d rather be. The hotel is set in 5 hectares of land just outside the oasis town of San Pedro de Atacama, beautifully designed in muted tones of adobe and local materials to blend with its surroundings perfectly.

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