chile-2023

1000 km south on the Pan-American Highway. Nothing but desert. We need to get closer to Santiago de Chile as our return flight is on the 15th. La Serena was founded in 1543 by...

400 km of road along the coast on the N1 or 500 km on the Pan-American Highway inland? We choose the coastal road, which is very well maintained and beautiful. 6 hours later we...

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About 100 kilometers from Iquique in the Salar de Pintados, there are approximately 450 drawings (engravings) over a length of about 3 kilometers. Geometric shapes, animals, and...

Humberstone is located 50 kilometers from Iquique in the middle of the Atacama Desert, where the world's largest reserves of saltpeter are found. In the so-called saltpeter war...

We take the road to go to Iquique in the north of Chile, 1850 km from Santiago de Chile. 200000 inhabitants. Important silver mines, exploited by the Spaniards in the 16th...

San Pedro de Atacama, 1700 km from Santiago de Chile and 200 km from the Argentine border, is the starting point for excursions in the Atacama Desert. Most people fly to Calama...

At 60 km from San Pedro de Atacama on the road to Rio Grande is Yerbas Buenas, rocks where you can admire prehistoric engravings. We haven't counted them, but there would be...

In the region of the Atacama salt flat, over the past 100,000 years, there have been a total of 4 times when lakes formed and then dried up, leaving behind sediment. According...

Les Atacamenos, peuple d’ origine de l’oasis San Pedro, ont construit ici au 14ieme siècle une forteresse pour se défendre contre les ennemis venant de l’autre côté des Andes....

Departure planned at 08:30 as we have about 800 km to drive today. When I arrive at the parking lot, I notice that the light is on. A sense of anxiety sets in and indeed, the...

Departure at 08:30. The journey is supposed to take 5 hours one way. Straight road at the beginning, no trees, no toilets, nothing but the desert, but still impressive. Then the...

Rest day in Copiapo because tomorrow we are going to try to see the laguna verde at 4000m and it's a 3-hour drive. Copiapo has 160,000 inhabitants and is known for its silver...

From Vina del Mar to Copiano, south of the Atacama desert. 800 km on the Panamericano, a road that goes from Alaska to Patagonia, 18000 km. In Chile, 3400 km and we will drive...

A 100 km from Santiago on the Pacific coast is Vina del Mar.

Franz Fonck, a German doctor, born in 1830, comes to Chile in 1854, attracted by his interest in natural sciences. At that time, many German scientists come to Chile and later...

Pablo Neruda, born in 1904, his father a locomotive driver and his mother died shortly after his birth. Nobel Prize in Literature. See his complete biography on the fundacion...

We picked up our vehicle this morning at Chilean. Not bad, but without GPS. In the meantime, we bought a SIM card for 700 pesos, 1 Euro, 2 GB, and 100 minutes, hoping to use it...

What is this? A jewel? Was ist das Schmuck?

National Library

Iberia overnight flight from Madrid at 23:55. 13 hours of flight. Small seats with rows of 3 x 3, not much space. Arrival at 09:00 in Chile. 1 hour for customs. The Chileans ask...

Departure imminent 13 hours of flight Arrive in Santiago at 09.20