Traveling to "Escondida" mining For many years I visited the BHP Billiton mining site, located in the north of Chile, specifically near the city of Antofagasta. To arrive quickly from Santiago, it is

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Claudio Bustos

Traveling to "Escondida" mining For many years I visited the BHP Billiton mining site, located in the north of Chile, specifically near the city of Antofagasta. To arrive quickly from Santiago, it is necessary to travel by plane. A flight takes approximately one hour and forty-five minutes to get to the "Cerro Moreno" airport. The airport is located on a cliff next to the sea, so the landing is always a beautiful sight. The trip is generally calm, without turbulence. Next to the airport, on the sea, there is a naural monument called "la portada". "la portada" is a large rock with a large hole in the center. If you go to Antofagasta, it is inevitable to take a picture in this place. The city in general is cloudy in the morning and in the clear afternoon, it has no natural beaches, only an artificial beach. It has a large promenade, where there are many restaurants, entertainment places and hotels with an ocean view. To get to the "Escondida" mining, you must take the road called "la negra". This road is almost at the end of the city. From the city to the mining, there are one hundred and seventy-five kilometers. When entering the road, it is necessary to be authorized. The speed of the vehicles is controlled, and it is a serious error outside the speed limits. The landscape is beautiful, in fact you are in the Atacama desert ... the driest desert in the world. There is a clear blue sky, Around there, only desolate hills of brown color. When you travel on the road and look around, and concentrate, you can feel that you are really on Mars. In the middle of the trip it is necessary to take a rest. The car stops at a special place where the driver and passengers can go to the bathroom or simply get out of the car. When you are in these places you can feel the wind in your whole body. If you are in this place at night. It is possible to clearly see the via lactea, and a sky full of stars. Little by little a headache is felt, because there is less oxygen in high geographical locations. When you arrive at the mining site you are to three thousand two hundred meters high, and at some point it is necessary to serve people who can not stand the lack of oxygen. To enter the site, people must show the guards, their identification cards and show their suitcases, and the guards verify if the people are authorized. Soon I will write the second part of this short story.

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Traveling to the "Escondida" Mining Area [In titles always capitalize the first, last, and all important words.]

For many years I visited the BHP Billiton mining site, located in the north of Chile, specifically near the city of Antofagasta. To arrive quickly from Santiago, it is necessary to travel by plane. A flight takes approximately one hour and forty-five minutes to get to the Cerro Moreno* airport. The airport is located on a cliff next to the sea, so the landing is always a beautiful sight. The trip is generally calm and without turbulence. Next to the airport, on the sea, there is a natural monument called La Portada**. La Portada is a large rock with a large hole in the center. If you go to Antofagasta, it is inevitable to take a picture in this place.
The city in general is cloudy in the morning and clear in the afternoon. It has no natural beaches, only an artificial beach. It has a large promenade, where there are many restaurants, entertainment places and hotels with an ocean view.
To get to the Escondida mining site/area***, you must take the road called La Negra.** This road is almost at the end of the city.
From the city to the mining site/area, there are one hundred and seventy-five kilometers. When entering the road, it is necessary to be authorized. The speed of the vehicles is controlled, and it is a
serious error to go/travel outside the speed limits. The landscape is beautiful, in fact you are in the Atacama desert — the driest desert in the world. There is a clear blue sky, and around there, only desolate hills of brown color. When you travel on the road and look around and concentrate, you can feel that you are really on Mars.
In the middle of the trip it is necessary to take a rest. The car stops at a special place where the driver and passengers can go to the bathroom or simply get out of the car. When you are in these places you can feel the wind in your whole body. If you are in this place at night. It is possible to clearly see the Via Lactea, and a sky full of stars.
Little by little a headache is felt, because there is less oxygen in high geographical locations. When you arrive at the mining site you are [at] three thousand two hundred meters high, and at some point it is necessary to serve oxygen to people who can not stand the lack of oxygen.
To enter the site, people must show the guards their identification cards and show their suitcases, and the guards verify if the people are authorized.
Soon I will write the second part of this short story.

[* We very rarely use apostrophes around common proper nouns, usually only the names of media titles, such as TV shows and movies

** The names of places and roads are capitalized in English since they are proper nouns.

*** Or: "the Escondida mines".]

Traveling to "Escondida" mining

For many years I went to the BHP Billiton mining site, in north Chile, near Antofagasta city. To arrive quickly from Santiago, one should fly. This takes approximately one hour and forty-five minutes to get to the "Cerro Moreno" airport. The airport is located on a sea cliff, so the landing is always a beautiful sight. The trip is generally calm, without turbulence. Next to the airport, on the sea, there is a natural monument called "la portada". "la portada" is a large rock with a large hole in the center. If you go to Antofagasta, it is de rigeur to take a picture in this place.
The city in general is cloudy in the morning and clear in the afternoon. It battery dies very well written! has no natural beaches, only an artificial beach. It has a large promenade, where there are many restaurants, entertainment places and hotels with an ocean view.
To get to the "Escondida" mining, you must take the road called "la negra". This road is almost at the end of the city.
From the city to the mining, there are one hundred and seventy-five kilometers. When entering the road, it is necessary to be authorized. The speed of the vehicles is controlled, and it is a
serious error outside the speed limits. The landscape is beautiful, in fact you are in the Atacama desert ... the driest desert in the world. There is a clear blue sky, Around there, only desolate hills of brown color. When you travel on the road and look around, and concentrate, you can feel that you are really on Mars.
In the middle of the trip it is necessary to take a rest. The car stops at a special place where the driver and passengers can go to the bathroom or simply get out of the car. When you are in these places you can feel the wind in your whole body. If you are in this place at night. It is possible to clearly see the via lactea, and a sky full of stars.
Little by little a headache is felt, because there is less oxygen in high geographical locations. When you arrive at the mining site you are to three thousand two hundred meters high, and at some point it is necessary to serve people who can not stand the lack of oxygen.
To enter the site, people must show the guards, their identification cards and show their suitcases, and the guards verify if the people are authorized.
Soon I will write the second part of this short story.

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