We spend several days in the Atacama desert, doing daytrips with our rental car and staying in a cabaña, just before the corona crisis hit Chile.

San Pedro de Atacama day trips

The Atacama desert had been at the top of our todo list for Chile since the beginning, and this showed in the number of days we booked there - six. This was twice the time

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9 days, 4 flights, 8 flight cancellations. How to return from Chile to Belgium during a global pandemic. Certainly not recommended for the faint of heart.

Trouble in Paradise – Corona comes to Chile

Our last stop in Chile was the Atacama desert. But it was while we were having a merry old time watching llamas prancing about and flamingos dancing around that the Coronavirus pandemic brought things toppling

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Santiago turns out to be the first big city in which we regret not spending more time, and we learn that living in Valparaíso allows you to skip leg day.

Valparaiso and a bit of Santiago

After dropping our hire car in Talca we walked back to the bus station, firmly backpackers again. We needed to book a couple of long-distance buses for the north of Chile, including one across the

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After our first night bus experience, we spend two days in San Carlos de Bariloche to hike a couple of trails around the lakes.

San Carlos de Bariloche

We got to Bariloche from Malarguë via San Rafael, by taking a Buttini bus to San Rafael, then killing about 8 hours there, before getting on the night bus to Bariloche. We’d been on several

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