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Chile

3 places
Chile is the strangest shape of any country, a ribbon over four thousand kilometres long and rarely more than two hundred wide, pinned between the Andes and the Pacific, so that it runs from the driest desert on Earth in the north to glaciers and fjords near Antarctica in the south. Along the way…

The Centre (Santiago & the coast)1 place

Santiago & ValparaísoTown · ●●●●○Chile's contrasting central duo: a modern, orderly capital pressed against a wall of snow-capped Andes, and, over the…

The North (the Atacama)1 place

The Atacama DesertNature · ●●●○○The driest desert on Earth, where some weather stations have never recorded rain, a high, otherworldly landscape of…

Chilean Patagonia1 place

Torres del PaineNature · ●●●●●Patagonia's crown jewel: three sheer granite towers soaring above a turquoise glacial lake, at the heart of a national…