Chile & Easter Island - Chiloe (PDF Chapter)

This is the Chiloé chapter from Lonely Planet’s Chile & Easter Island guide-book.

When the early-morning fog shrouds misty-eyed and misunderstood Chiloé, it’s immediately apparent something different this way comes. Isla Grande de Chiloé is South America’s fifth-largest island and is home to a fiercely independent, seafaring people.

• genuflect in awe at Chiloé’s Unesco-listed wooden churches
• maps
• trek across Chiloé’s landscape to the mythological Dock of Souls
• transport
• take a dawn kayak trip through a misty sunken forest in Chepu
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Ancud, Monumento Natural Islotes de Puñihuil, Quemchi, Isla Mechuque, Dalcahue, Isla Quinchao, Peninsula de Rilán, Castro, Parque Nacion-al Chiloé, Parque Tantauco, Quellón.