Arrive to Santiago, Chile’s metropolitan capital, where your private guide will take you to your hotel in the charming Lastarria neighborhood. Lastarria is a nice area for walking around, with quiet streets, flowering trees, attractive colonial architecture, and a variety of restaurants and boutiques.

By arriving two days before your Easter Island visit, you won’t have to worry about the risk of any flight delays or missed connections causing you to miss this experience.

Travel into the wine region and stop for a tour and tasting at Viña Catrala, a boutique winery known for its pinot noir and sauvignon blanc. Continue to the central coast to discover Valparaiso, one of the first Chilean cities founded by the Spanish and the former home of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003 for its architectural and cultural significance, the city is one of Chile’s most interesting. Spend the afternoon wandering among colorfully painted buildings and winding, art-filled streets, with spectacular views of the harbor below. Your private guide will lead you through two of the most famous and eclectic neighborhoods, Cerro Concepción and Cerro Alegre, and you will have the chance to visit one of Pablo Neruda’s three homes-turned-museums, La Sebastiana.

Depart the mainland and head to mythic Easter Island on a flight of roughly five hours. A local representative will be waiting at the Mataveri Airport to take you to your lodgings, a beautiful and refined boutique hotel overlooking the South Pacific Ocean. Here, you will meet the staff and guides, have a briefing to go over your excursion options for the coming days, and enjoy time to relax and begin exploring this beautiful area.