Top 5 reasons to visit Chile

The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world.According to estimates the Atacama Desert proper occupies 105,000 square kilometres (41,000 sq mi), but its size rises to 128,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi) when the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes. (Source – Wikipedia)

The driest place on Earth, so why would you want to go there, you may ask?

You can also go and checkout the salt flats of Atacama… The salt layer is about 500 meters thick by the way and though no salt is extracted anymore it is one of the richest sources of lithium in the world!