Chile is a LONG thin country. The north of Chile is one of the driest places in the world with the Atacama Desert and Salt Flats. Down south is the stunning Patagonia which crosses into Argentina.

Unspooling like a gaucho’s lasso down the western edge of South America, Chile is so vast and so slender that it can seem hard to know how to tackle it. Flanked by the Andes Mountains to the east and ...