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Just beyond the European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes located at Cerro La Silla, some 2-3 hours driving from La Serena – you will find interesting petroglyphs dating from one millennia...
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Punta Arenas was formally known as Magellanes – staying just in front of the Magellan Strait, which definitely dominates the city life.
It is an important harbor especially for...
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I always like to visit the historical parts of the cities I travel to. In Santiago de Chile I suggest Cerro Santa Lucia and its nearby art craft market. You can get to the area quite easily using...
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If you like astrophotography then La Silla is the place to be at – or the region around, so the nearby telescopes of Las Campanas are equally a good place to set your own equipment.
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Santiago de Chile is a good point to plan further voyages across South America – or just inside long, long latitude-wise Chile.
Surely traveling by bus is a cheap way to do it –...
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El Caracol is the famous dangerous road that connects Chile with Argentina across the Andes. Located on the Chilean side, it has 29 loop-like closed curves that in winter time often get impossible to drive across. This road stays immediately after the border Chile-Argentina, at Paso de los...
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The main geographical characteristic of Santiago is that it is surrounded by the Andes Mountains – as one can clearly see both driving across the city and from the air. In fact in my first visit...
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After 3 weeks in the Atacama Desert mountains I will be in Santiago around middle May - with 2 free days in between flights.
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The fauna of Torres del Paine is quite diverse and exotic. It was the first time I saw at a distance of a couple of meters a huge condor – understanding now why they can indeed fly away with a...
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Nordenskjold was a Finnish-Swedish explorer from the XIX century – he went across North America, Patagonia and also Antarctica. Just in front of the most majestic peaks of Torres del Paine stands...
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A good couple of hours north of the Strait of Magellan, driving from Punta Arenas the asphalted road ends a bit after the city of Puerto Natales. From there on expect lonely dusty roads and amazing...
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At about 160 Km from La Serena, after 2-3 hours drive up into the mountains of La Silla, you find the European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes of La Silla, at an altitude of 2400 m. This is...
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The Chile/Peru border was dull except for the thorough searches the officials insisted on which allowed me to rescue my sleeping bag from my rucksack for one night of warmth on the bus. I still felt the bus driver was conspiring with whoever was trying to break me and I waited until he was...
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My endurance of the Peruvians and they're increasingly more frequent and high pitched mocking exclamations of por favor paid off, because that night I was given a coat, and a blanket to sleep with. Maybe it was out of kindness, or maybe it was to stop my teeth from chattering so that they could...
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