Chile Footprint Handbook

Ben Box has been working on the South American Handbook for over 30 years and is a Latin America expert. Ben has contributed to newspapers, magazines and learned tomes, usually on the subject of travel, and has also been involved in Footprint’s Central America & Mexico, Caribbean Islands, Brazil and Peru since their inception. Having a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese studies from London University, Ben maintains a strong interest in Latin American literature and culture. Anna Maria Espsäter, originally from Sweden, first moved to Mexico at 20, enjoying the culture shock, spicy food and sunny weather. She has since returned repeatedly for shorter and longer stays. Now based in London, she works as a freelance travel and food writer, chasing the ambition of visiting every country in the world. With 87 visited to date she has a way to go yet, but remains undaunted despite surviving tropical disease, earthquakes, assault and armed robbery on the road. Chris Wallace has been traveling through, and writing about, Central and South America since 2004. He has lived in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru. He has spent long weekends at family fincas in Antioquia, traveled along both ends of the Amazon river, failed at tango classes in Buenos Aires, and made frequent escapes to Valparaiso to receive the palliative benefits of coastal air and electric pink sunsets. He has tailored travel and tourism content for entrepreneurs and publishers alike, having covered events as grand and life affirming as Barranquilla’s Carnival festival on some days while dealing with tortured history by writing about Argentina’s Dirty War on others. More than 10 years in, he feels he’s barely scratched the surface of what this continent has to offer. Having said that, his primary goal is to see more monkeys.

1) Introduction 2) Essentials 3) Santiago Region 4) Valparaíso and Vina del Mar 5) From Santiago to La Serena 6) Into the Atacama 7) Antofagasta, Calama and San Pedro de Atacama 8) Iquique, Arica and the Altiplano National Parks 9) Central Valley 10) Lake District 11) Chiloé 12) Carretera Austral 13) Far South 14) Tierra del Fuego 15) Chilean Pacific Islands (Islas Juan Fernandez; Rapa Nui [Easter Island]) 16) Background 17) Footnotes