Plan Your Ultimate Chile Getaway
11 Things to Know Before You Travel to Chile
It’s a weird and wonderful place
The redeye from JFK to SCL is almost eleven hours long and touches down before its scheduled arrival of 6:35 am. A very early morning for me. Like any seasoned traveler, I know that the best way to beat jet lag is to stay awake on your first day and keep to your normal food schedule.
When I arrive at my hotel in the peaceful neighborhood in Providencia, it’s before nine and I’m more than ready for a coffee and pastry, because I’m not the type of person who can sleep anywhere outside of a bed. Also, I purposefully chose an eastern-facing window seat and watched the rising sun paint the horizon electric red over the crumpled white pleats of the Andes.
After wheeling my suitcases to my room, I ventured out to the wide, tree-lined block to see what sort of hip coffee shops this neighborhood of mixed residential and office buildings had to offer. The first place I passed wasn’t going to open until 9:45, and the second would open fifteen minutes later.
Where in the world did I end up?
Separated from the rest of the world by the Pacific Ocean to its west, thousands of mountains and volcanoes to its east, and the driest nonpolar desert in the…
