Northern Chile and the Atacama Desert Travel Guide
Travel to Northern Chile and the Atacama Desert - The driest place on earth
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Overwhelmingly vast and desolate, the Atacama, the world’s driest desert, stretches from beyond the Peruvian border in the north to the sun-baked rolling hills north of Santiago. Its scenery is some of the most spectacular in the world.
From Ocean to Andes, from the northern moonscapes to the shrub-covered hills outside Santiago, Northern Chile has set the scene for Inca conquest, colonial settlement, nitrate and copper booms and a full scale war. The relics of all of these – the Inca forts and the nitrate ghost towns such as Humberstone – are all preserved by the dry environment.
Heading south towards Santiago we enter what scientists call the transitional zone. Plant life exists here in the form of grasses and shrubs, while in the valleys formed by rivers running down from the Andes, crops can be sown. These beautiful valleys, including Elqui and Hurtado, lead from the coast and its popular beaches like La Serena, through stunning scenery right up to the snow-crowned peaks of the Andes.
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