The way up from the Santiago side is hard to find, right before the tunnel, it is not marked. This road is also way worse than the road up from the Argentina side. Tough ride up in a front wheel drive car, good thing it was a rental. Took the Argentina side down, way easier. 3 gift shops on top with lots of souvenirs. Get a hot chocolate. Cold on top in March. Ate lunch at the bottom of the Argentina side in the arch building over the road, very good. If you go back through the tunnel to Chile you will have to go through customs, make sure to have passports and car rental forms. ## make sure to tell them you just drove up to the Christ the Redeemer and are going back to Chile. They should let you in without a stamp from your car rental place.

Fantastic place! Also of a special significance for the peace between Chile and Argentina. Doable on a 2WD, but definitely not an easy drive up the dirt road from Chile. It took me over 3.30 hours to drive from Santiago with no traffic. A few times I had to stop and remove rocks from the road and in one occasion had to move the soil to create a little ramp for the car to go up. Definitely a pain to have to go through Chile border control on my way back to Santiago. So unnecessary as I never entered Argentina 😅 After 2 hours queue the woman was very friendly and understandable so she let me go without having to do any paperwork. Enjoy but pay attention!

Scary drive to this interesting monument to the peace of Argentina and Chile. The views are just stunning. Very windy and somewhat cold due to the heights.

Great alternative to the tunnel if you have the time. Off-road vehicle is nice but not necessary (but use engine braking!). Great views, cool temps, some random vendors selling hot chocolate and whatnot. Both sides of the pass are dirt! Argentine side seems to be in better shape.

What a wild ride!!!!!! We came from Santiago and the climb up the massive mountain highway with all of the trucks was sooooo cool!!! Then you get to the old dirt road and that's when things get really fun lol. You're on this gravel road for about 25 minutes, and as long as you go slowly, it is totally fine but is a lot steeper than it looks in the pics. If another car passes you might have to backup 15 feet so they can pass, but there were hardly any people or vehicles on this route. At the top it is sooooo windy and cold, but truthfully you only need 5 minutes to take some photos before heading back down :) it is so steep and high that you certainly can feel the altitude... it was pretty neat and a totally fun ride. We didn't realise that we had to go through Chile border again but luckily it didn't take long and we had our passports. We explained we had just gone up and come down and they basically let us through. This whole adventure was so worth it and might be the only time we ever drive roads like this!

The drive up there was rather difficult especially with a normal city car but it’s manageable if you are a very good and confident driver. The only downside of visiting is that you will cross over to Argentina (if you come from Chile) and you do need to go through immigration and wait at the border for quite some time. We spent around 1:30h there and almost no one spoke English. We were lucky that someone who was also queuing was speaking some English and helped us fill in the forms. Be aware that apart from filling in the immigration form you also need to fill in TWO forms for the car (everything in Spanish and only if you have a rented car) Also don’t forget to bring a pen with you :). I would still recommend to go cause the view of the Andes makes it all worth it! But be prepared to spend most of the day there (driving + visiting + immigration).

Signed up for the Alta Montaña tour and I had an amazing experience. The tour is simply beautiful, breathtaking...literately 🤣. If you are passing through Mendoza, you must go here.

The place is so beautiful, lots of tourists goes there looking for snow, it should be better explored and offer better service..

It's a good snow park to go with your family.

Good place to go with children. Poor infrastructure. Not good to professional ski

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Beatiful sky park for beginners

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