Chile

Country number:
75
Territory number:
82
"I’m not a dictator. It’s just that I have a grumpy face."
Augusto Pinochet

Tales from Chile

Chile, The Country of Poets - in a Nutshell

At a count just over 1300, Chile is one of the countries with the most volcanoes and several of them are still active.
At a count just over 1300, Chile is one of the countries with the most volcanoes and several of them are still active.
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Chile - Santiago, Puerto Varas and the Volcanoes of the Lake District - Antarctica and South America 4

My hotel is in Puerto Varas, on the edge of a very large lake, Lianaquihue, and I’m told that there are two very large...
My hotel is in Puerto Varas, on the edge of a very large lake, Lianaquihue, and I’m told that there are two very large volcanoes just across the water from my room. But I will have to take everyone’s word for it.
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Chile - The Amazing Atacama Desert - Antarctica and South America 1

I wake to an incredible view of the Andes of Chile, snow spattered. The plane is descending, before commencing a sharp, and slightly alarming,...
I wake to an incredible view of the Andes of Chile, snow spattered. The plane is descending, before commencing a sharp, and slightly alarming, ninety degree turn into Santiago, just the other side of the mountain range; there isn’t much space between me and some of the frosted peaks I’m eyeballing. We pop, not entirely smoothly, over some glistening salt pans, before coming into land.
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Chile - Easter Island and Patagonia - Round the World Anticlockwise 3

From the tranquillity of the Everglades to the tranquillity of Easter Island, Chile. The journey via Santiago not so tranquil.
From the tranquillity of the Everglades to the tranquillity of Easter Island, Chile. The journey via Santiago not so tranquil.
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