What is Santiago Walker? SANTIAGO WALKER is definitely the best way - along with La Bicicleta Verde - to experience culture and live the localīs life in our nation's capitol.
Similar to our bicycle tours, STGO Walker reaches beyond the traditional city tour, helping every visitor to observe Santiago from an inside-out perspective. We seek to give every visitor both a real and entertaining experience as we walk through the ins and outs of Santiago.
If you're looking for a large tour group, with inflexible routes, led by a guide carrying a big yellow umbrella who helps you point your camera in the right direction...then you've come to the wrong place.
STGO Walker, as a form of presenting Santiago, attempts to provide intriguing fun facts, an astonishing variety of routes, complete and utter reliability and - without question - superb guides.
We are so confident that you will be pleased with any of the STGO Walker tours, we have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. The finest tours in Santiago can offer the best satisfaction guarantee.
Currently Picnic Sur offers the following spectacular walking tours:
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Before we describe the tour, let’s try defining Guachaca or Huachaca (pronounced WA-CHA-KA):
Guachans are Chileans who characteristically shy away from any formal definition of who they are, but could perhaps be described as a societal movement that promotes humble living and simple pleasures.
They also champion the lifestyle of urban Chile’s “common people.” Their motto is “Humilde, Cariñosos y Republicanos” (Humble, Affectionate, Republican). They oppose class discrimination, all things “cuico” (posh, upper-class, pretentious) and the privileging in Chile of foreign culture.
The STGO HUACHACA Tour attempts to wrap this definition up into an experience for our visitors. It is a walking tour that that takes you down under to where the locals buy their daily commodities, fruits and vegetables, fish fresh from the coast and drink their local “
terremoto” cocktails.
Our guides will take you to the most authentic and traditional places that the guide books don’t even know about on a taste-test-tour through street markets, hidden bars and cafes.
We uncover the delights of Chilean
Pisco Sour, fresh juices,
Sopaipillas and the unique
Mote con Huesillos.
This tour guarantees to introduce you to the real Chile and its people. Of course, we are not talking about supermarkets and tourist bars, but rather the biggest street and tent markets in Santiago along with the most traditional yet secret,
'cueca' bar "La Piojera". You will come across ancient men shouting out their best prices on Chilean grapes, tomatoes, or just Tuesdays best dog pellets.
Looking to meet harmless, although rough-looking, individuals selling Chilean daily staples? You found a life-long Kodak memory in STGO La Huachaca.
Stops include: Estacion Mapocho - Central Market - ‘La Vega’ market - ‘La Vega Chica’ market - Coffee ‘n’ Legs - ‘La Piojera’ downunder bar and restaurant.
