Chile is a long thin country stretching some 2500 miles down the south-western Pacific coast of the South American continent with some offshore islands in the Pacific Ocean including the remote Easter Island. Holidays to Chile offer an incredible diversity of landscapes from the world's driest desert in the north, to the bleak isolation of Tierra del Fuego in the south. The average width of the mainland, from the sea to the Andes, is just 100 miles.