Chile

Chile runs from the driest desert on earth to the glaciers of Patagonia. The Atacama offers salt flats, flamingos, and the clearest night skies anywhere. Santiago sits beneath the Andes, Valparaíso spills down its hillsides in painted houses and century-old funiculars, and the Colchagua Valley pours the deep, smoky Carmenère that has become the national signature. Rapa Nui waits offshore.