Been to Chile twice. Fell in love with the country, the surf, and a girl I met from Norway. I describe to people like this. If you take the entire west coast of USA from canada to mex and mirror it to the southern hemisphere, you have Chile.
We have Sierras.
They have Andes.
We have desert in the south.
They have desert in the north.
We have Death Valley.
They have Atacama.
We have warm water in the south.
They have warm water in the north.
We have 161 active volcanos in PNW.
They have 500 active volcanos.
We speak spanish.
They speak spanish.
They even grow the same food we do. Life is a trip.