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This monument of Gabriela Mistral with 2 students welcomes people who arrive in #Montegrande, the birth town of the chilean nobel prize. It is a very beautiful environment, the monument is next to the main square, an old church, a playground for children and close to the poet's house museum and a few meters from her mausoleum.

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July 1, 2019 - Eclipse Road Trip, Destination Three: Valle de Elqui, Chile

How is it possible that the next few days of the road trip were even better than the first few? This was such a special trip. We drove from Punta de Choros, windswept and with salty skin, all the way back to Valle de Elqui. The drive was stunning, with such a change of terrain as we moved from the coast into the valley.

We arrived around 5pm, and I instantly fell in love with the place. This was such a special witchy campground, and our site was right on the edge of the river that ran through the middle. 

We set up and then quickly rushed back to the entrance of the campground to meet our guide for a night hike in the mountains. He drove us (in the back of his pickup truck) up one of the mountains converging in the Elqui Valley and let us out just as sunset was at its most beautiful. We then hiked up to the peak of the mountain and sat in a lovely silence there until the whole world was dark except for the stars above us. It felt just like the Atacama – you could see so many stars, with the whole Milky Way, Jupiter, Venus, and el Cruz del Sur wonderfully visible.

The next day was the big finale of the trip: eclipse day. We decided we needed to get some work done, so we found a café in town to sit at for a few hours (I just read my book, as my classes luckily were all done, but the rest of the group pulled out their laptops to grind.) This café was my soul spot. I felt a wave of happy energy hit me the minute we walked in. There were dreamcatchers and beautifully made mobile-esque things hanging everywhere, and everything was focused on the energy of the sun and moon. This was the energy I needed going into the eclipse, and I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed with joy at where we were in that moment.

We eventually made our way back to the campground for the thing we had been waiting for: a total solar eclipse that just happened to occur during our last week in Chile. With the rest of the people of the campground, we hiked up the side of the mountains again and found a very prickly spot right between a few cacti. We then put on our glasses and settled in to watch. I never could have even imagined what would come. I knew the solar eclipse would be spectacular, but it was beyond that.

If there’s anything Chile has given me, it’s the deepest love I have found in the sun and moon and stars. With the end of my trip being this solar eclipse, I have never felt so centered. I truly felt the reality of my existence: a tiny human sitting on the outside of a rotating celestial body as we fell in line with two others. My heart was so happy. Thank heavens for the moon.

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Elqui Valley

[chileilikeit]

The Gabriela Mistral street with a stencil of Gabriela Mistral in #Vicuña #wereadmistral #leemosmistral . .

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On september 28, 1954 Gabriel Mistral wrote a message that she put inside a bottle. This was buried in #Montegrande and in 2010 was found inadvertenly. In the message she expressed that she wanted a place to be built for the local children. Her dream was realized and adorned with phrases from her poems. In the #photo a seesaw with "give me your hand and we will dance, give me your hand and you will love me, like a single flower we will be, like a flower and nothing else".

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1/2/2025 - valle del elqui

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After 3 months camping at Rancho Elquino in Vicuna, Chile, the time has come to say goodbye. New adventures await us in Brazil, but we will be leaving behind friends that have got us through a crazy time in our life. Vicuna was our sanctuary and we're so grateful for all the beautiful memories we made here. #vicuna #elquivalley #desert #chile #chiletravel #explorechile #discoverchile #worldnomads #worldschooling #vanlife #vanlifediaries #momandsontravel #weareworldschoolers #learningtobreatheabroad #exploretheworld #digitalnomads #ontheroad #travelwithme #travellingtheworld #overlandingtheamericas #travelbloggerlife #instadaily #picoftheday #naturelover #nature_brilliance #cacti (at Vicuña, Valle de Elqui) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF3QaDxnND6/?igshid=virnpfuf8cq9