Santiago, Chile
It's big, really big. Properly big.
Each day with Ercio we covered 400 to 500 kilometres in 10 or so hours of moving through the landscape, and that's just Region VII of Chile - Chico Norte, the little North.
It's astonishingly beautiful with varied landscapes that we quickly adapted to and stopped bring amazed by. It's richer and more European than Peru and Bolivia. It has infrastructure and pride and much less litter.
The observatory tour was worth the effo...