Yet this merely supplies it with a remoteness that adds to its charm. The Atacama Desert is Chile at its most serrated; Chile without a safety net. Over three days, I use the Alto Atacama as a ...

From the arid expanses of the Atacama Desert to the icy realms of Patagonia, the country presents a unique blend of natural wonders and cultural experiences. In the heart of Chile lies Santiago ...

In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...

It’s surprisingly simple to reach the Atacama Desert. Most people choose to fly into Santiago, the capital of Chile. You can fly from New York (JFK) to Santiago (SCL) nonstop in under 11 hours ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a ...

Chilean filmmakers Erick Bellido and Sebastián Bugueño are shooting a feature-length documentary on Ignacy Domeyko, a ...

a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, sun cream and ponchos. Tour operators and vendors call out to visitors in ...

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North ...

Supported by By Humberto Basilio Every year, hundreds of racers from around the world gather in northern Chile with their ... hundreds of miles around the Atacama Desert, carving tire tracks ...