To ensure our knowledge graph for Chile is dense enough and of high quality, we took inspiration from several cool travel stories and made them interactive. The links to the original travel stories are present right after the short excerpts. One journey we authored ourselves — Curiosio Originals — let’s start from it.
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Mankind always looked up to the skies and asked the questions: “What is there? How big is it? Who is there? Who we are?” It’s only ~400 years since Galileo Galilei pointed his primitive telescope to the stars.
It is Chile where the cutting-edge telescopes are watching the stars nowadays. There are many telescopes of different types. The telescopes are clustered into the astronomical observatories. There are many observatories. Atacama desert in Chile is an astronomer’s paradise.
“Because of its high altitude, nearly nonexistent cloud cover, dry air, and lack of light pollution and radio interference from widely populated cities and towns, this desert is one of the best places in the world to conduct astronomical observations.” Wikipedia.
It is allowed to visit the observatories and figure out what is going in the sky yourselves. We took the astronomical observatories, added some wine towns, and a coastal drive, and thrown them all onto the algorithm, with Santiago as a starting and finishing point. We got a very geeky trip for you. We call it Per Aspera Ad Astra which is a popular Latin phrase meaning “through hardships to the stars”.
At the Bottom of the World
“Chilean Patagonia is a rugged region — isolated, wild, and ecologically diverse. Where else could you stand next to human-size rhubarb leaves, watching dolphins play in a fjord while impressive waterfalls cascade from the glaciers behind you? On a road trip down Chile’s Route 7 — also called the Carretera Austral — you can pack the Patagonian adventures of a lifetime into a two-week journey.” National Geographic.
You can change literally everything by clicking [Supertrip] button and editing the trip plan. The total number of points is limited to 30, so make sure you are staying within 30. You can change the starting and finishing points. You can set your own duration and budget, your number of travelers. Curiosio will tell you what’s the best possible experience will be in your requirements. You will review the options and decide, Usually, you will search again and again because you will learn a lot about Chile during those sessions.
Carretera Austral
This trip is similar to National Geographic, but it is still significantly different by points. Everything in Chile is similar — vertical — because the country is narrow and very long vertically.
“The Carretera Austral (CH-7, in English: Southern Way) is the name given to Chile’s Route 7. The highway runs south for about 1,240 kilometers (770 mi) from Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins, passing through rural Patagonia. Carretera Austral provides road access to Chile’s Aysén Region and southern parts of Los Lagos Region. These areas are sparsely populated.” Wikipedia.
Patagonia, Chile
This is an epic adventure. Probably it’s the world’s greatest road trip. “Barely 30 years ago, much of this country was accessible only on foot, on horseback or by boat. Locked between mountains and ocean, this was the end of the world, ‘the uttermost part of the earth’ in the memorable phrase of an early settler. This road trip winds through one of the least explored corners on earth — and nobody really knows where it ends.” Condé Nast Traveler.
Here is Cerro Paranal at night for you with laser beams groping the sky. Stay tuned and always follow your curiosity.
