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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.

Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.

In port at Santiago, the bucket-list move is Private Santiago City Highlights with Expert Local Guide. Below: 5 bucket-list things to do on a Santiago port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Private Santiago City Highlights with Expert Local Guide
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Private Santiago City Highlights with Expert Local Guide

A bespoke, chauffeured private tour of Santiago's most iconic landmarks — Plaza de Armas, Cerro San Cristóbal, Bellavista & La Moneda — curated entirely around your pace and passions. This is Santiago distilled to its finest, with no crowds, no rushing, and a vetted local expert who knows every hidden corner.

Book it Private Walking in Santiago: Explore with a Local Expert + Lunch $150 per person
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Maipo Valley Private Wine Estate Experience & Gourmet Lunch
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Maipo Valley Private Wine Estate Experience & Gourmet Lunch

Journey into Chile's most celebrated wine valley for an exclusive estate visit, barrel-room tour and sommelier-led tasting of premium Carménère and Cabernet at one of Maipo's legendary bodegas — paired with a refined lunch. This is Chilean viticulture at its most aristocratic.

Book it Private Maipo Valley Wine Experience: 2 Premium Wineries & Lunch $290 per person
Run by Maipo Wine Tours · 4.60 from 52 reviews
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Valparaíso: Funiculars, Street Art & UNESCO Quarter with Private Guide
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Valparaíso: Funiculars, Street Art & UNESCO Quarter with Private Guide

Valparaíso's labyrinthine hillside neighbourhoods, UNESCO-listed historic quarter and world-famous open-air murals are best navigated with a private local guide who can decode every painted alley and Victorian mansion. Ride the legendary Ascensor Concepción and sip cortado in a clifftop café with infinite Pacific views.

Book it Street Art in Valparaiso and Wines in Casablanca from Santiago $125 per person
Run by Sotomayor Square · 4.50 from 19,000 reviews
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Cajón del Maipo & Embalse El Yeso: Andean Canyon Luxury Day Trip
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Cajón del Maipo & Embalse El Yeso: Andean Canyon Luxury Day Trip

Follow the Maipo River deep into the Andes along one of South America's most dramatic canyon roads, culminating at the impossibly turquoise El Yeso Reservoir at 2,500 m elevation. This private full-day adventure delivers Patagonia-calibre landscapes without a flight — just raw Andean grandeur at your fingertips.

Book it Tour Cajón del Maipo + Embalse el Yeso $65 per person
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Cerro San Cristóbal Funicular & Skyline Pisco Sour Sunset
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Cerro San Cristóbal Funicular & Skyline Pisco Sour Sunset

Ascend Santiago's beloved Cerro San Cristóbal aboard its 1925 funicular railway to the summit statue of the Virgin Mary, where the entire city spreads below and the snow-capped Andes fill the horizon. Time it for golden hour and toast with a perfectly made pisco sour at the hillside terrace bar.

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Portillo & the High Andes: Chile's Legendary Mountain Pass Private Tour
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Portillo & the High Andes: Chile's Legendary Mountain Pass Private Tour

Drive the spectacular Ruta 60 through the High Andes to the legendary Portillo ski resort and the Argentine border at 3,832 m — a road-trip through snow tunnels, switchback hairpins and glacier-carved valleys that rivals any mountain drive on earth. Out of ski season, you'll have the epic landscape virtually to yourself.

Book it Inca Lagoon in Andes Mountain Range - Visit Local Vineyard with Tasting included $79 per person
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Cruises that call at Santiago

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