Chile

Chile stretches 4,300 kilometers from north to south but never more than 180 from east to west. A country that seems designed to collect extremes: the Atacama, the driest desert on the planet; Patagonia, one of the last wild territories; Easter Island, the most remote inhabited place in the world; and the Andes, accompanying it from start to finish. Torres del Paine is the crown jewel: three granite towers rising above glaciers, turquoise lakes and lenga forests. A national park that competes with any place in the world for scenic beauty and has made Chile a world-class trekking destination. But Chile is also the Atacama with its cleanest skies on the planet for astronomy, its geysers at dawn and its infinite salt flats. It is Valparaíso with its colorful hills and port bohemia. It is the wine region with world-class Carménère and Cabernet. A country that deserves multiple visits.