In the
north of Chile, the fearsome Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on
earth with a rich and rugged terrain.
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| View of San Pedro de Atacama valley and distant Andes from Pukará de Quitor, an Inca fort |
Patagonia (Chile)
Where
Patagonia meets the Andes, the dry steppe becomes a landscape of mountainous, snow, ice, lakes, fjords, channels,
islands and changeable weather systems from the Pacific Ocean.
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| View of the massif from Río Paine, Torres del Paine National Park |
Patagonia (Argentina)
On the
opposite side of the Andes to Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine, lie more
glaciers, mountains and lakes before the landscape returns to the Patagonian steppe.
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| Iceberg dwarfed by the size of the surrounding mountains, Lago Argentino |



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