Casa Newen offers travelers and tourists our fun santiago tours for the summer of 2010! We organize and arrange private and group tours to the must see attractions that Santiago and Chile has to offer. The tours are with experienced bilingual guides and can be personalized to fit your needs.

There are 10 tours throughout Santiago and central Chile catering to every want imaginable! If you fancy the beach and coastline we offer tours to the iconic port city of Valparaiso and the resort city of Vina del Mar as well as the enchanting fishing town of Zapallar. The Isla Negra and Pomaire tour will take you on a journey into the life of Chile’s Nobel Prize Winner Pablo Neruda, visiting the poets home and Pomaire, the traditional potters village known for it’s handmade arts and crafts.

If you love Chilean wine then the tours in Chile offer a smorgasbord of lush green valleys and vineyards. The Wine Train Tour is a popular tour in Santiago and features an original steam train and a trip to the Colchagua valley. There are also wine tours to the Maipo Valley featuring the vineyards of Concha y Toro, Undurraga. The Colchagua Ranch Tour is a unique experience of Chilean wine and culture with a traditional folklore dance and rodeo as well as visit to the Colchagua Museum.

If you are the outdoors type then a tour of Cajon del Maipo and San jose is a sure bet. Here you will find various activities at your disposal. Trekking El Morado National Park to the San Fransisco Glacier is unforgettable as well as a visit to Colina Thermal Baths, a natural wonderland with the Andes Mountain range as your backdrop.

And finally the Dinner and Show tour highlights the best attractions that Santiago has to offer! The cultural center that is Santiago’s main square, the majestic Cathedral of Santiago and the resilience of the Presidential Palace. Finally a traditional restaurant of Santiago will introduce you to Chile’s typical dances, wines and gastronomy.

Visit our website at www.casanewen.com and view our Tours section for more info. You can also book a tour by clicking on “bookings and enquiries” or by Clicking Here you can also reach us by sending an email at contact@casanewen.com or by Tel:+56 02 716 9007 (Santiago de Chile)

We pride ourselves on providing travelers, guests and tourists our renowned personal service and friendly advice so we hope you discover Chile with our Santiago tours

Alejandro Carvajal
Casa Newen Tours Santiago Chile

Another year is gone… we have meet so many nice people from all over the world and the most important thing is that we have learned from each other, sharing our culture differences, the languages and even sharing some political point of views! What we really like is for guests to leave Casa Newen and Chile with great memories and new friends.

One of the great things that happened last year was related to the wine industry in our country. One of our wines was awarded by the Magazine “Wine Spectator” as being amongst 100 top wines from all over the world, our “Clos Apalta 2005” from “Casa Lapostelle - Colchagua Valley” won 1st Prize.

The Colchagua region is located about 128km southwest of Santiago. It enjoys a balmy, Mediterranean climate matched in only a few other places on earth. Currently the Colchagua Valley has about 50,000 acres of vineyards. The predominant varietals are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Carmenère, Malbec, and Syrah, with lesser amounts of Chardonnay, Sémillon, and Sauvignon Blanc. Most of our guests visit the picturesque town of Santa Cruz, located in this region.

Talking about wine we would like to rise our glasses with a nice Chilean Carmenère and say SALUD! and wish all our guests from the past years and the future, a very Happy and rewarding 2009!!

After being spectators to the magnificent fireworks in Viña del Mar, we are ready to welcome the New Year and of course our new guest!

Did you know that for the second consecutive year our Chilean wine “Don Melchor” from the Concha y Toro vineyard reached the fourth place of the top ten international wines for 2006 according to the North American magazine Wine Spectator. The winner was Italy with “Casanova de Neri” sold at US$70 compared with our “Don Melchor” sold for US$47. For this year`s ranking they tasted 13,500 wines worlwide

Recently Luis and I have had the pleasure of enjoying the “Tantehue” Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon from Ventisquero Vineyard it isn’t one of Chile´s traditional brands, but we find it quite nice, with a plumb aroma and very smooth, ideal for a barbecue, cuisines and cheeses. By the way…Chilean tennis star Fernando Gonzalez promotes the “Tantehue” wine, and according to him it’s fantastic and youthful.

The best thing is that it’s inexpensive and can be found at “Jumbo” supermarkets in Santiago, the biggest store is close to Casa Newen, in Francisco Bilbao Street. The other young brand is “Calama” you can also find it at “Jumbo” supermarkets in Santiago.

For those interested in Chile´s main vineyards, they are located in the “Valle del Maipo” which is within the Metropolitana region, this means within Santiago and sorroundings areas. The two main vineyards are Cousino Macul and Concha y Toro. Santiago also has an interesting Wine Train Program “Tren del Vino”, were you can have a cocktail and wines of the region on board . Luis and I havent had the pleasure of enjoying this tour YET, but we are sure we will have the oppurtunity very soon!

Adda Y Luis from Casa Newen Bed and Breakfast