In the
north of Chile, the 1900 km which separate Arica from Santiago
seem plunged in a deep silence, in the vastness of the desert
of Atacama (one of most arid in the world), the prevalent
physical features are those of the Indians Quechuas or Aymaras.
In the
center of Chile, Valparaiso and Vina LED mar form the second
human concentration of the country. The charming town of Valparaiso,
with its sinuous streets famous sound funicular and its multicoloured
houses leaned with the 17 hills which dominate the port, offers
calms and serenity. Contrary to Fortified LED mar, seaside
resort famous of Chile, where Chiliens but also Argentins
comes prélasser on its beaches the day and to benefit
from the restaurants and the connected discotheques the evening.
The area
of the lakes offers an infinite succession of green encircled
alpine valleys of Andean tops and majestic volcanos to the
snow-covered summits. Its glacial lakes are true jewels of
their frozen water are made the mirror of surrounding splendours.
In the
south of Puerto Montt, in Patagonie, the ground and the sea
merge in a labyrinth of islands, fjords, rivers, lakes and
planted mountains of thousand-year-old trees, landscapes of
an intense beauty which have escaped with the devastations
of the man.
Lost in
the beautiful medium of the Pacific, to 3800 km of the Chilean
coasts,the Easter Island was a long time the place more isolated
from the ground. But, since now more than 30 years, it attracts
the visitors and curious about the whole world, fascinated
by the mysterious megalithic statues left by attractive people.
Lastly,
Santiago of Chile, omnipresent capital in the economic and
political life of the country and which gathers more of the
third of the Chilean population, offers an aspect different
from the other Latin capitals, more European, but nevertheless
not stripped of charm.
