Leaving Copiapo, the road heads west back to the coast, with your first view of real desert on your right. If you’re travelling in the evening, you may have the good fortune to see the sun setting on the dunes and rocks. You will also come to a good place to spend a night: Caldera.
The small seaside town of Caldera has a number of what you will have now started to realise, on this journey, are attractions: a petrol station (at the road junction with the town), cafés, bars, shops and places to stay. As always, it’s best to fix up a room for the night before doing anything else, and among the recommended places is the Costanera, right on the front. It’s clean, cheap and they’ll let you park in their patio. A more upmarket hotel, 100 metres along the promenade, is the Puerta del Sol.
This road along the front is actually called Wheelwright, named after the British engineer who made the town a railhead for the export of minerals from the country’s vast mines. Today, the station has been converted into a dance hall, but the old railway lines and platforms are still there as a reminder of the past. This is just one of the many occasions when you’re likely to see the evidence of the part played by British and Irish individuals in Chile’s history.
The small seaside town of Caldera has a number of what you will have now started to realise, on this journey, are attractions: a petrol station (at the road junction with the town), cafés, bars, shops and places to stay. As always, it’s best to fix up a room for the night before doing anything else, and among the recommended places is the Costanera, right on the front. It’s clean, cheap and they’ll let you park in their patio. A more upmarket hotel, 100 metres along the promenade, is the Puerta del Sol.
This road along the front is actually called Wheelwright, named after the British engineer who made the town a railhead for the export of minerals from the country’s vast mines. Today, the station has been converted into a dance hall, but the old railway lines and platforms are still there as a reminder of the past. This is just one of the many occasions when you’re likely to see the evidence of the part played by British and Irish individuals in Chile’s history.
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