South of Santiago is the Santa Cruz vine region with some great red, but rarely any white wines. Mostly the Cabernet Sauvignon is famous here.

We were most impressed by the local museum in Santa Cruz, just next to the main square. It featured great fossils, an impressive historic section about the chilean independence and other wars, plenty of inca information and (what we missed in Peru) Inca jewelry and gold, and finally a section about the mining disaster where 33 miners were trapped for 2 months underground in 2010. And the best thing is that the museum fee allows you to start your visit on one day and finish the next (24 hr entry).

And just next to the Vina Santa Cruz vineyard is a great automobile museum.

Not far from Santa Cruz is Pichilemu, a beautiful coastal town with the best surf waves in Chile (so they say). The water is quite cold though, even in summer.