Hello,
I have started to think about an extended trip to Chile and maybe Argentina during one of the next solar eclipses:
- 2nd July 2019
- 4th December 2020
This is where the eclipses are:
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2019Jul02Tgoogle.htmlhttps://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2020Dec14Tgoogle.htmlI see now that the 2020 eclipse is better, in the sense of having the full obscuration above land.
I realize that it is a long time ahead, but as it is a place that we don't know much about, I would appreciate to get some good ideas about where to go, how things work over there and what to watch out for.
A bit about me and my DH:
- We enjoy (multiple day) hiking trips with a backpack and sleeping in a tent.
- We also like using a simple airBnB in a nice village (preferably not a major big city)
- We like fly fishing and Patagonia is high on our list to visit.
- I am interested in finding mushrooms.
- We like to see and photograph wildlife.
- DH likes to free dive, I like to snorkel.
- I am interested in skywatching.
- We are interested in visiting interesting historic and natural sites, but rather not with millions of tourists.
- We like to eat in non expensive restaurants that serve well-tasting food. I hate restaurants with persuaders outside.
- I want to avoid criminality.
- I don't tackle extreme heat well and need to be mostly in the shadow if we are at a place with strong sunlight.
The plan is to be FIRED by then, or at least be able to take a long sabbatical, so that we would have time to go there for 2-3 months, which means we can have a long trip for what the flight will cost. Travel hacking is not a very obvious thing here in Norway as we don't get lots of points for signing up on credit cards, so I rely on finding a flight at an unpopular date/time with lower fares.