Stargazing in Chile
| by Linda | 6 Comments » | Chile, Guest Post, South America
Courtesy of www.spaceobs.com
Travel in Chile doesn’t always go as planned, as our guest writer Linda Martin discovers…
We’d hoped to visit San Pedro de Atacama on our first trip to Chile, detouring off the main road from Santiago to the border to see what this desert town has to offer. But while we were in the south of the country, Chile was rocked by the 8.8-grade earthquake that killed more than 500 people and left thousands more homeless; it was a sad time for the country. The quake caused major damage to roads and highways, and airports and bus stations in several cities were closed for several days. Even in the south where we were, far from the epicenter, transport came to a complete halt for a couple of days – you couldn’t travel in any direction. (more…)
