Valparaíso City

Valparaíso needs 2 days: its hills with street art and historic funicular elevators on one, and the port and the Muelle Prat pier on the other. March-May brings the best coastal weather. It's cheaper than Santiago, with boutique lodging in hillside houses at affordable prices. Its port historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is known for world-class street art and its chaotic layout of stairs and winding streets across 45 hills, an inspiration for poets like Pablo Neruda, who had one of his houses there.