Tours & experiences

🛕 Culture & History in Chile

Small-group tours, day trips, cooking classes and multi-day adventures. Every tour vetted for traveller reviews first.

Start with a country

🌍

CategoryDurationRatingPrice

7 tours in Culture & History in ChileClear filters

Sort by:

Santiago Barrio Yungay Street Art Walking Tour Experience

★ 5.0 (27)

🛕 Culture & History

Chile

Santiago Barrio Yungay Street Art Walking Tour Experience

When Priya from the crew did this Santiago street art walk through Yungay, she found herself in the thick of Chile's most politically charged and visually arresting neighbourhood. Starting at Quinta Normal Park and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights — essential context for understanding why these walls speak so loudly — the route dives into Yungay's transformed streets where murals function as public testimony. You'll clock the Adriana Cousiño and Lucrecia Valdés passages, meet working artists in their gallery space, and stumble onto oddities like the French Hair Salon (second oldest in the world). The crew reckons it's a solid 2–3 hours on foot with real insight into Santiago's creative resistance and neighbourhood identity.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $73

Private Tour: Full-Day Easter Island Archeological sites

★ 5.0 (20)

🛕 Culture & History

Chile

Private Tour: Full-Day Easter Island Archeological sites

When Tomás from the Global Hobo crew did this seven-hour private tour, he got a proper deep-dive into Easter Island's Moai mystery with a guide who actually knows the place. You'll hit the Rano Raraku quarry where these massive stone heads were carved, wander through Ahu Tongariki's stunning 15-statue platform, and track the engineering puzzle of how the Rapa Nui people shifted multi-tonne sculptures across the island. The vibe is intimate — max 8 people in a private vehicle — and the guide shapes the pace around what fascinates your crew. It's the opposite of herding through with cruise-ship crowds.

The Beginning and End of Moai Full Day Tour

When Tomás from the Global Hobo crew tackled this full-day tour, we got the sprawling story of Rapa Nui laid out across six to seven hours on Easter Island. You'll hit the quarries where moai were carved from volcanic stone, then roll through the island's ceremonial sites, including the restored platform at Ahu Tongariki. The vibe is archaeological and contemplative — you're basically hiking between ancient sites with a guide who knows the island's history. It's not a party tour; it's the kind of thing you do when you actually want to understand a place rather than just tick a box.

6 hours – 7 hoursfrom AUD $176

City Historical and Cultural Tour in Santiago: Walking Tour

★ 5.0 (16)

🛕 Culture & History

Chile

City Historical and Cultural Tour in Santiago: Walking Tour

When Ngaio from our Global Hobo crew did this Santiago walking tour, she spent 3–4 hours threading through the city's colonial heart on foot. The guide steered us past 19th-century façades, through plazas heavy with political history, and into the kinds of laneways you'd miss rattling past in a bus. Santiago's historic centre is compact, walkable, and genuinely animated — locals doing errands, market stalls, that particular Santiago light — and the pace felt designed to actually let you absorb it rather than tick boxes. It's the kind of tour that works because you're *in* the streets, not above them.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $73

Andes Mountains: Discover the Magic and Colors

★ 5.0 (15)

🛕 Culture & History

Chile

Andes Mountains: Discover the Magic and Colors

When Finn from the crew did this Santiago loop, it turned out to be less about mountain wilderness and more about the city's foothills and cultural backbone. You'll start in the artsy Barrio Los Dominicos, swing past the colonial Casona Santa Rosa de Las Condes (where Chile's first president hung his hat), and detour through the Museo de la Chilenidad to eyeball traditional textiles and crafts. The highlight's a 360-degree views from Cerro Calán with a traditional Chilean snack in hand, then you finish browsing the Centro Artesanal market. It's a three-hour pre-Andean meander that blends history, street culture, and local handiwork—perfect if you want to understand Santiago's backbone without leaving the city proper.

arica and parinacota in 2 days 1 night

When Finn from the Global Hobo crew booked this two-day jaunt through Chile's far north, he was after something beyond the usual tourist circuit—and Arica and Parinacota delivered. You're talking archaeological dig sites, geothermal hot springs, and some genuinely wild landscape tucked between the Pacific and the Andes. The region feels remote but accessible, pulling in a mix of culture-hungry backpackers and nature seekers keen to step off the gringo trail. Two days is snug but workable for covering the main sights without feeling totally rushed.

Valparaíso: Heritage, Art & Queer Culture Tour

When Delphine from the crew took this eight-hour Valparaíso tour, she ditched Santiago for the day and got the proper local treatment. A queer-led guide walked us through Chile's most chaotic, colourful port city — all steep hills, street art murals, vintage funiculars, and the bohemian grit that makes it tick. The tour peels back Valparaíso's LGBT+ roots and cultural pulse, then loops you through Viña del Mar's coastal stretch. It's a small-group setup with someone who actually lives here and knows where the real stories are buried.

8 hoursfrom AUD $235

Some tours listed with Viator, a Tripadvisor company. Prices and availability confirmed at checkout.