Getting Ready for the Carretera Austral
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Getting Ready for the Carretera Austral

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The Carretera Austral (Ruta 7) stretches approximately 1,240 kilometers throughout Chilean Patagonia, from Puerto Montt in the north to Villa O’Higgins in the south. This highway, officially opened in 1988, was initiated in the 1970s by Augusto Pinochet during his military regime, claiming it makes no sense you need to travel through another country to…

San Pedro de Atacama on a Budget

San Pedro de Atacama on a Budget

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San Pedro de Atacama (aka SPA) is a small lovely village in the middle of the Atacama desert. In pre-colombian times, it was the home of the atacamaños – an ancient group of the Likan Antay people (some remains can still be seen in the desert around). It was ruled by the Incas till Spanish…