The world’s greatest road trips

Sarah Moore gets the motor running and heads out on the highway.

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General Carrera Lake is the second-largest in South America and is shared between Chile and Argentina
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The Carretera Austral ("the Southern Way"), Chile's version of Route 66, is some 1,270km long, stretching from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins, taking in rural Patagonia in southern Chile. It makes for "the world's greatest road trip, through spectacular scenery, stringing together remote settlements that had almost no connection until [the road's] arrival," says Stanley Stewart in Cond Nast Traveller.

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Sarah is MoneyWeek's investment editor. She graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA in English and History, before going on to complete a graduate diploma in law at the College of Law in Guildford. She joined MoneyWeek in 2014 and writes on funds, personal finance, pensions and property.