
Chile Travel Podcast with Tomás Fuentes
Tomás Fuentes
Chile Travel Podcast is a resident’s guide to travelling through a country that stretches across 39 degrees of latitude. Between the Atacama Desert, the central valley, and the cool, damp south, journeys are measured in changing climates and landscapes as much as in kilometres. The show treats travel as a process of learning one place at a time.
Over the series, the host’s range includes Santiago, Valparaíso, the Atacama Desert and the Chiloé archipelago. Each episode connects one place to the next, so the listener gradually sees how Chile fits together: the Andes to the east, the coastal mountains to the west, and the central valley where most people live.
The podcast unfolds by returning to places in different seasons, letting Chile change around the listener. A valley heard about in summer is revisited after winter rains; a port town becomes familiar through repeated visits over a year. The result is a slow accumulation of knowledge, closer to how a resident comes to know a place than how a tourist passes through.
Tomás Fuentes lives in Chile and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Tomás is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement.
A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers.
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Episodes5
Yesterday · 10 min
Tuesday · 9 minBarrios, Markets, and the Custo of a City
Monday · 9 minA City in Winter, and a Free Museum
Sunday · 10 minThe River, the Rain, and Winter Plums
Saturday · 12 minFirst Days in Santiago, Winter of 2026