Exploring Latin America

Chile’s Patagonia region

Interested in exploring Chile, the southern cone and South America? You’re in luck!

Traveling throughout the region is accessible, affordable and can fit within your semester schedule, with some good planning! Here are a few destinations you might consider traveling to while studying in Santiago with a reasonable personal budget:

Travel included within the program’s Signature Seminar:

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Chile’s Patagonia region
  • Valparaiso, Chile

Common beach destinations just a bus ride away from Santiago:

  • Concón
  • Zapallar
  • Horcón
  • Algarrobo
San Pedro de Atacama desert

Top destinations within Chile:

  • San Pedro de Atacama desert
  • Región de los Lagos (Lake’s Region)

Heading outside of Chile? Check out these sites:

  • Mendoza (Argentina)
  • Cusco and Machu Picchu (Perú)
  • Iguazú Falls (border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay)
  • Rio de Janeiro and other destinations on the coast of Brazil