Mainland Chile

South America » Chile
September 26th 2019

Published: December 13th 2019

Once we crossed into Chile, the bus descended, down and down, losing elevation quickly until we reached 2500m. This is the lowest I'd been at in about two and a half weeks. I could breathe a lot easier. We were now in the Atacama desert, one of the driest places on the planet. We soon found ourselves in the (tourist) town of San Pedro de Atacama which seemed like something out of a western movie w... Read Full Entry

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15th December 2019

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Valparaiso
A jungle of a jumble...great city overview shot. I will post it in our "Streetscapes" thread in the Photography Forum. Check it out.

15th December 2019

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Calama to Santiago
Fantastic that you entered the Atacama through the high altitude backdoor from Bolivia. But when you flew from Calama to Santiago did you look out the left side of the plane and were lucky enough to see the scores of volcanoes all in a line?

19th December 2019

Danny347
Danny

Sadly the sun had already set, so not much in terms of views. Did see some incredible visuals of the Andes when I flew out of Santiago towards Paraguay later on in my journey.

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