PATAGONIA

We had to fly into Punta Arenas, one of those end-of-the-world places you wouldn’t mind too…

CHILOÉ

There’s only 2 km separating the island of Chiloé from Chile, but that small distance has been enough to make the islands pretty different to the…

CENTRAL CHILE & THE LAKES DISTRICT

After the days of dust and mud of the Atacama desert, I was ready…

SANTIAGO

When I told people that I was about to spend three weeks in Chile, they gave me a puzzled look. If they hadn’t been to South America, they…

THE ATACAMA DESERT

My only reference point to what a desert would be like was Disney’s Aladdin and a…

DOGS OF CHILE

There were dogs everywhere around Chile. After trudging up a huge dune — there were two dogs chilling out. They looked at us as if to…

VALPARAÍSO

Rounding out our trip was a two night escape to Valparaiso, a coastal town 1.5 hours away…