Visit Santiago de Chile

Gael Garcia Bernal sells the campaign that voted out Pinochet in 1988, shot on 1980s video.

A rich boy and a poor boy at a Santiago school in the months before the 1973 coup.

Visit Concepcion, university city of Chile

German-style houses on Lake Llanquihue under the perfect cone of Osorno volcano.

The last stop before Torres del Paine, on a fjord of the Ultima Esperanza.

An adobe oasis in the driest desert on Earth: geysers, salt flats, flamingos and the clearest night sky.

Colonial churches, a long beach and the observatories of the Elqui valley behind.

Stilt palafito houses and wooden churches on Chiloe island, with curanto cooked in the ground.