Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and ... began poking through the earth in October 2022, Chile’s president Gabriel Boric Font declared the diverse ...

Spanish colonial rulers paid less attention to the desert, but Chile, Peru and Bolivia were all the more interested, and after gaining independence they fought over the area and its valuable ...

"you could argue that it's Chile at its most alluring." Ready refuge from the sun and heat is a must. Over the next three days, the Alto Atacama Desert Lodge & Spa, outside San Pedro de Atacama ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

Chile is packed full of wonderful sites and attractions including stunning beaches and is home to just ... with the northern Atacama Desert in the north being one of the driest places in the ...

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. Today, it has been reduced to the world’s dumping yard Mountains of discarded clothes, shoes, and scrapped tires have been ...

The second-hand clothing trade is a well-established business in Chile. Traders import unwanted ... clothes imported each year ends up in illegal desert landfills, with dire consequences for ...