Venture into Chile's wild open spaces

Everything is more vivid in Chile: the wind doesn't blow, it howls; and the mountains don't stand, they reign. Even the shape of this long, narrow country contributes to its rugged nature and rewards travelers who are not afraid of long distances. Corralled between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains, moving from west to east is a relatively easy excursion, but traveling north to south is a 2653-mile (4200 km) undertaking that will take you from the arid, rugged deserts in the north to the green mountains that glaciers continue to actively carve in the south.

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