The Atacama desert is the driest place in the world. In some parts, it hasn't rained in over 200 years. And with hundreds of miles of it still to go, we decided to stick to main roads to make up some time from our 3 day off-road desert excursion. Almost immediately as you cross the border into Chile, their are roads again... nice ones too. Chile is a highly developed country, which is a night and day difference from Bolivia. It was a similar situation when we crossed from Honduras into Costa Rica. The roads went from crumbling resemblances of pavement with dead horses laying in the middle to freshly paved, painted lines, and clearly marked routs. You can tell how well a country is developed right away by their infrastructure. We threw down a 450 mile day with the Atacama on our left and the ocean on the right.
The Atacama desert is the driest place in the world. In some parts, it hasn't rained in over 200 years. And with hundreds of miles of it still to go, we decided to stick to main roads to make up some time from our 3 day off-road desert excursion. Almost immediately as you cross the border into Chile, their are roads again... nice ones too. Chile is a highly developed country, which is a night and day difference from Bolivia. It was a similar situation when we crossed from Honduras into Costa Rica. The roads went from crumbling resemblances of pavement with dead horses laying in the middle to freshly paved, painted lines, and clearly marked routs. You can tell how well a country is developed right away by their infrastructure. We threw down a 450 mile day with the Atacama on our left and the ocean on the right.
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