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Eclipse-spotting is rapidly gaining in popularity, and Buenaventura had set up a successful camp for a July 2019 eclipse some 650 miles north of Pucón, near the city of La Serena. AN HOUR AND A HALF before the eclipse, Buenaventura invited everyone at the camp to gather on the deck outside the kitchen to talk as a group about our reasons for coming. On the two-hour trip from the airport to a glampsite in southern Chile's Lake District set up specially for the eclipse, my driver, peering out at dairy and berry farms through his rain-streaked windshield, fretted about the weather. AT MEALTIMES OVER the next two days, I met the 25 or so other guests who'd braved the weather, travel restrictions, and dubious odds of actually seeing the eclipse. [Extracted from the article] |
