Chile Retrospective

Note: the publish date is a bit off: it looks like we forgot to publish this almost a decade ago!

We really enjoyed our travels! Chile has a variety of amazing experiences to offer all in one long country. We got a taste of high-altitude beauty that we might rather follow up on in Peru. The Lake District in the middle of the country is great, but probably not something we would travel just to Chile for since similar experiences can be had in other places of the world. Our favorite experiences were in Patagonia and in the Atacama desert. These are 2 amazing landscapes that I hope to see again someday. We would really like to see the Argentinian side of Patagonia.

We didn't enjoy the larger Chilean cities very much. Staying the first month in Santiago was sort of the safe thing to do - it is a large city that has everything you need - but in retrospect we would have rather stayed somewhere else. But we have never stayed in such a dense area before, and we probably wouldn't like it that much in a dense American city either. We appreciated the few museums and other attractions that we saw in the bigger cities, but we enjoyed the smaller towns much more.

Chile doesn't do a great job of catering to foreign tourists. I see this as an advantage though, since there are not many foreign tourists crowding sites.

Chilean food is great at the ocean where there is fresh seafood.