How a 12-Room Hotel Turned a Remote Archipelago Into Chile’s Next Big Thing
With sensitivity and style, Tierra Chiloé has put the rugged, unexplored Pacific Coast squarely in the luxury spotlight
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As we sailed through the placid channels off Chile’s mid-Pacific coast, all was silent. Our wooden ship—painted yellow and blue and built in the style of a traditional fisherman’s boat—quietly cut through the sapphire waters between the small, low-lying islands of the Chiloé archipelago. On either side, gray, gravelly shores gave way to green hills beyond and nearly cloudless skies above. Here and there, livestock grazed around ramshackle, corrugated-tin farmhouses. Occasionally, a tuxedoed Magellanic penguin would softly swim by.
Then, suddenly, shouts of excitement erupted from the prow: