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03-18-2024, 8:06am | #1 | ||||||
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Travel, destination Chile!
Any advice? Sights, Restaurants, etc.
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Where in Chile? It's a big country with cities, deserts, mountains, wildly different climate zones, etc.
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Do not try to reach peak of Andes,,,
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I've spent time in Santiago but never ventured north of there. Food in Chile is most excellent, and Carmenère wine is a must-try. It's a variety of grape originally from France but is now grown exclusively in Chile. |
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Just had vineyard owner friends make a trip there for the fourth time and Antarctica. The wine there is incredible according to their winemaking heads.
Carmenere is definitely the grape to look for in a medium bodied red. Kinda like Bikaver in Hungary. You mostly get what you pay for. Spend a few extra bucks and get the good versions. The other one to look for, although more popular in Uruguay, is Tannat. Bigger than Carmenere and way harder to make a wine that can be drank within a few years, but the top examples rival some of the best CA wines I have had. I was never traveling to SA, but seeing it in their summer would be pretty sweet. |
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A coworker spent 10 days in Chile last month. She sent me these photos:
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Based on the thread title, I'd be sure to bring warm clothing.
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I didn't lose a THING in South America - the US State Dept assesses Chili as Level 2 "Exercise Increased Caution" - that alone will keep me away; maybe when I was younger I'd be more confident but not now.
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LOTS of other places to go than South America.... I went to Costa Rica a couple of years ago and went cross-country on a bus, there are some scary-azz places all over the country. |
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Pretty sure that same warning should apply to every major city in the US.
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Go see the ELT, not finished until 2028, but I am sure you will be impressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope |
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