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== Zones ==
* [[:Category:North (Chile)|North]]
* [[:Category:Central (Chile)|Central]]
* [[:Category:South (Chile)|South]]
* [[:Category:Extreme South (Chile)|Extreme South]]
* [[Chiloé Archipelago]]
''Here is a short anlysing of hitchhiking in Chile by [[User:Korn|Korn]] on [https://warmroads.de/en/hitchhiking-in-10-chile// - warmroads.de]
→Personal Experiences
The chilean border posts are nice and bored, might let you use their kitchen, living room and wifi if you ask nicely and chat with them. There is a nice place to camp by the river but bring enough food.
'''''Paso Internacional Los Libertadores''''' between [[Mendoza]] and [[Santiago de Chile]] is probably the best option with lots of truck and civilian traffic. You will also pass Mt. Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Southern and Western hemispheres. There's a tunnel between the two countries. Goes between Mendoza province and Region V de Valparaiso. To hitch, you can start at the road leaving Los Andes north (on how to get there from Santiago, check Santiago page). Careful, every once in a while it closes due to weather conditions for some 2 or 3 days - check twitter @UPFronterizos before going!
'''''Paso Vergara''''' on the Ruta 226. Crosses from Mendoza province to Region VII del Maule. Argentinian customs is 8km from the actual border. Let us know if you hitched this.
'''''Paso Carirriñe''''' on the Ruta 62. Crosses from Neuquen province to Region XIV los Rios. Argentinian immigration is 47km from the actual border. Let us know if you hitched here.
'''''Paso Hua Hum''''' on the Ruta 48. Crosses from Neuquen province to Region XIV los Rios. Argentinian In Chile, once you reach the town of Puerto Fuy, you need to take a ferry (it's called 'Barcaza Hua Hum'. See fares here https://barcazahuahum.com/es/horarios-tarifas/) and cross lake Pirehueico. [[Pirehueico]] is also the name of the last settlement one finds before reaching the border with Argentina. From Pirehueico, Chilean customs is 3km from at a distance of 11 km. The best option available is to ask passengers going to Argentina for a ride to the actual borderbefore disembarking. The Chilean one customs is on the actual border. In Chile Argentinian customs is 1,5 km from Chilean's, so it's within easy walking distance from the border. The nearest city from Argentinian customs is [[San Martín de los Andes]], which is 43 km away and it's only reachable through a completely unpaved road. Despite this fact, there are campsites nearby in case you need a place to stay the night, or in case you're looking for drivers. Also, the last bus going to take San Martín departs from customs at about 20.00 in summer (you can just ask for information in there, schedules might change throughout the year).[[User:christianmn| Christianmn]] was picked up in Pirehueico and crossed the border through Chilean customs. After this, he crossed Argentinian customs and waited at a ferry crossroad some meters ahead. He was lucky enough to get connected be picked up by four guys going back to [[Junín de los Andes]], so they dropped him in San Martín since it was on the other roads. Let us know if you hitched hereway.
'''''Paso Fronterizo Cardenal Antonio Samoré''''' on the Ruta 231. Crosses from Neuquen province to Region X de Los Lagos. The Argentinian customs is 17km from the actual border.
'''''Paso Pérez Rosales''''' on a Ruta with no number, from Puerto Frías in Argentina in Rio Negro province. Nearest Argentinian town of size is called Llao Llao, near [[Bariloche]]. You'll have to take several seasonal ferries in both Argentina and Chile to get here. The nearest town of size on the Chilean side is called Peulla in Region X de Los Lagos. This border is not visible on Google Maps, only on Open Street Maps. Please let us know if you accomplished this masterpiece.
'''''Paso Futaleufú''''' on the Ruta 259. Crosses from Chubut province to Region X de Los Lagos. The distance between the two immigration offices is less than 1km. This is a major tourist hot spot, so if the border isn't closed, it should be fairly hitchable. Please verify To get out futaleufu, you need to be patient : there is not a lot of trafic. Walk out of the hitchability once youtown until a bridge : cross it. Just after it there is a bus station : good place to wait espacially if it've crossed heres raining.
'''''Paso Rio Encuentro''''' on the Ruta 44. Crosses from Chubut province to Region X de Los Lagos. The Argentinian side has a town named Carrenleufú and the Chilean has one named Alto Palena. Let us know if you crossed here.
== Sleeping ==
Chile is a very safe and easy country to camp or squat. Hostels are rather expensive, so camping is a better method. The local gas stations (usually COPEC) are almost always hitchhiker friendly, and will be happy to let you crash behind the place for the night, as are police stations and truckers service areas. The cities to exert special caution in when crashing out are Valparaíso (known for a somewhat dodgy center) and the capital Santiago -- those two make for the lion's share of crime in Chile.Couchsurfing is quite popular!
[[user:MOAH| Mind of a Hitchhiker]] made a little [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwYI4EoysM YouTube video] of a day hitchhiking and freecamping around the Puerto Montt area.
'''XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antárctica Chilena''' ⇒ [[Punta Arenas]] — [[Puerto Natales]]
== Personal Experiences ==
''Hitchhiking Chile is coming home. Over the course of 2016 and 2017, I've hitchhiked in all regions of Chile for more than three months in total - and I'm currently here again. It's really easy to become friends with your drivers and my sketch-o-meter when driving with guys didn't move much. Freecamping is ingrained in their culture and no one tried sending me to a paid camping or hostel when I asked to get out at a beautiful spot. Hitchhiking over the summer holidays can be annoying when you're at the beaches. The police picked me up, the guy from customs drove me to his village and the mayor of Vallenar gave me a lift. I hitched to one of the world's most famous telescopes at Paranal Observatory and managed to stop a truck in the dense fog around Punta Arenas. All major roads have nicknames, like "Ruta de las Estrellas" and "Ruta de Madera" to keep things entertaining. If I ever had to hitch about one country forever, it would be Chile.'' - [[User:MOAH|Mind of a Hitchhiker]]
''Of all the countries I've traveled in the Americas, Chile was noticeably the easiest to hitch in (perhaps tied with México). Though unlike México, there is an abundance of personal vehicles in Chile. All of my hitching there was done in a pair (one male, one female). Waits were hardly ever longer than ten minutes, regardless of the setting, even in the middle of the night on the side of a high-speed freeway.'' - [[User:jhoule|jhoule]]
''Chile is a wonderful hitch. I made my way for three months from Arica to Puerto Montt and onward down the Carretera Austral all the way to Cochrane (in summer months). After the jaunt in Argentina, I reentered Chile near Puerto Natales and the hitching was superb there as well.'' - [[User:Chael777|Chael]]
''I hitched around Chile for about two and a half months and found it to be very easy. The only problems you might run into is in the summer it seems like everyone is hitching and you might have competition with thirty other people in some obscure desert stop off. I've found the farther you are from Santiago the easier it is, the northern and southern third being great." - Jason G''
''I hitched from Santiago to San Pedro in June/July 2014. Contrary to the above, I found it easier to get rides near Valparaíso and Santiago. North of La Serena I was met with longer waiting times. '' -[[user:Dr.Keith|Keith]]
''I decided to hitch almost the entire length of Chile as a young, solo, female gringo with horrible Spanish skills... It was great! Quick wait times, camping spots were easy to find, and the camion drivers were great hosts. I'm always looking for information of the experience of solo females, so I thought I'd share. The most relevant difference between latino and north american (my home) culture is how forward latino men can be. In North America, if I get in a car and the driver tells me I'm beautiful, I ask to be let out right away because of some bad experiences, but in Chile I'm figuring out that's a lot more accepted in their culture. You will probably get told you are "bonita" or "linda" pretty often, but I don't think you have to be scared.'' -[[user:Pidgintoe|Pidgintoe]]
''Here is a short anlysing of hitchhiking in Chile by'' [[User:Korn|Korn]] on [https://warmroads.de/en/hitchhiking-in-10-chile// - warmroads.de]
''Nice blog post about hitchhiking in Chile'' [http://loshermanoshambre.com/would-you-trust-a-trucker-with-a-scorpion-tattoo-a-hitchhiking-tale/ Would you trust a trucker with a scorpion tattoo? A hitchhiking tale],
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