What to do and where to go in Santiago

Santiago is a sheet. I would recommend activities to this hypothetical tourist if he was with a group, a group who wants to have parties and have good times. In that case, the place it doesn't matter to much: only import the people who they will know, because that people will show them how is Santiago and how is Chile really -and not tourist places that don't teach very and important things.

The thing is, then, to visit places out of Santiago.

Like I said in my last post, Santiago is a very bad city, mainly because it wasn't build with a project: it was build at random. And how there was a social context in that history, the city was finally (above this random) a city of classes: very divided, polar, with a city to poor people and a city to rich people. It is very Ugly, without projection, and even more, without and idea of city! Ugly.

A tourist, instead of Santiago, should visit, for one hand, the south of Chile. That is a really beautiful place. I would recommend specifically Valdivia: go to see the nature, meet very good people, and have a quiet time. There, this hypothetical tourist will know new food, new customs, and a new rate of live, with people not so alienated as Santiago's people.

And a tourist should visit, for other hand, the north of Chile. I think it is not as good as the south, in terms of number of very good places. But the north is really great too, because their few good places are excellent. Traveling over there, it is very relaxing to see, at the same time, so huge places and so quite. I would recommend specifically San Pedro de Atacama, a retired place very relaxing and very beautiful as nature places.

But, if this tourist is looking for places not so quiet, I would recommend, finally, Iquique, because is city with a lot of movement and, mainly, a perfect beach.