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  • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
    @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +9

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  • @Chris_M_Romero
    @Chris_M_Romero 3 месяца назад +24

    Now that's some hardcore commitment to urban exploration right there: homie sees a ghost town in the opposite extreme of the continent via Google Earth and his response is to fly there, then drive an untold amount of hours through the driest biome of this planet to visit an abandoned town contaminated with lung-killing pathogens. I salute you for your determination. Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +4

      Thanks a million Chris! Really loved Chile😄 Next Sunday we venture into the unseen factory part including a power station and other buildings😌

  • @ricardolemuscortes
    @ricardolemuscortes 3 месяца назад +19

    Hi! My mother was born in that place. In 1940. She still is alive, she remember 'La Pulperia', 'la escuela'.

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +4

      O wow! She must have a lot of stories to tell. I wonder how life was there😁

    • @SluiceBuckit
      @SluiceBuckit 2 месяца назад +1

      It would be awesome if I could here her speak of this place

  • @manuelolmedo-r9o
    @manuelolmedo-r9o 3 месяца назад +15

    Hello Bob! Pedro de Valdivia was a beautiful place to live, even with the inclement weather, life was quiet: there was no crime, there was no drug addiction, there were no homeless people. And if! The heat may have been stifling at many hours of the day, but that never stopped us from playing a soccer game in the middle of the desert. At night there were basketball and volleyball championships as well. We played explorers, traveling great distances in the desert... I don't know how we were able to withstand that level of solar radiation without harming ourselves. Excellent video, it filled me with beautiful memories...

    • @icascone
      @icascone 3 месяца назад

      What a grea and important insight!! Thanks! :)

  • @BlackSharn
    @BlackSharn 3 месяца назад +13

    These last few desert videos are some of my favorites!

  • @lucwilson1
    @lucwilson1 3 месяца назад +21

    Crazy how quickly abandoned places get run down and degraded - not even 30 yrs if it closed in 1996.

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +6

      I think some parts were already in a neglected state and abandoned in 1996 :)

  • @magonzalv
    @magonzalv 3 месяца назад +11

    Thanks for the video. Very very good and informative. I've visited Pedro de Valdivia and other "Oficinas Salitreras" (Nitrate Offices). When I was in Pedro de Valdivia (2006), still the industrial sector was in activity, with many workers, trucks and mine trains, with electric locomotives. ¿Did you notice the PCC Car bodywork in minute 24:17 to 24:20 in this video?... that were an special kind of tramways brought from USA to serve as workers transport. I saw that kind of PCC tram bodyworks used as store of all kind of things, also in "María Elena", another ghost town near Pedro de Valdivia. Congratulations! Can´t for the next part of the video.

    • @icascone
      @icascone 3 месяца назад

      Great insight ! I did notice it but thought maybe was a Diner lol
      Anyhow thanks for sharing!

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 2 месяца назад +2

    Yikes those dogs were so terrifying😱 Fun explore and always enjoy seeing the BTS stuff!

  • @shubus
    @shubus 3 месяца назад +32

    In this desert environment with such intense heat the first question that comes to mind is "Where did the water come from?" I didn't see any giant water tanks.

    • @chriscollins550
      @chriscollins550 3 месяца назад +4

      There was an American style water tank in the distance at one point

    • @mikeschlup5279
      @mikeschlup5279 3 месяца назад +4

      No sewage treatment plant?

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +21

      Check an earlier episode! Hydrostations pumped water to the towns😇

    • @problu9586
      @problu9586 3 месяца назад +4

      Wondered about the same thing, where did the water originate?

    • @exit_dj
      @exit_dj 3 месяца назад +2

      @@ExploringtheUnbeatenPathyeah you are right, great video…. they have such a nice dam structure.

  • @lindamesa5122
    @lindamesa5122 3 месяца назад +4

    Bob this place is epic! I couldn't stop thinking of Egypt an how the pyramid builders were housed in feelings like u filmed here! They had everything they needed except Trees and shade! Great explanation Bob thanks! 😮😮

  • @GrandPitoVic
    @GrandPitoVic 3 месяца назад +3

    I really enjoy these type of places. I think of the first person that stepped on that land to build and all of the people that made their lives there. And I think of the last person that left and were heartbroken because their lives had changed in a possibly bad way. Not knowing what the future will be. History has a way of making its way back to us. Thank you for these videos you are making. Those of us who can not make such a long journey. You are appreciated.

  • @rolfsinkgraven
    @rolfsinkgraven 3 месяца назад +3

    A very interesting explore, nice too what was left, heat kills places like that very fast, you were lucky there was no wind it would be very bad with all that light dust.

  • @spitfirecod
    @spitfirecod 3 месяца назад +20

    A Van's shoe print in the middle of a book in the middle of nowhere that's off the wall!

  • @glennjames7107
    @glennjames7107 3 месяца назад +3

    It's sad to see how well these companies in the past took care of their workers, and their families. Now, in such remote locations workers are lucky if they have a decent "man camp" for housing workers. The thought of bringing your family to any of the modern sites in operation is laughable. At least in all of the cases I've encountered. A theater, community swimming pool, shops, and a plaza would be unthinkable today. This was common in the early twentieth century through the seventies when de-industrialization was started in the west. These are the ghosts of our past, these places are a symbol of the power we once had in the west. Power that has been quickly drained and transferred to Asia where the labor is far cheaper, bordering on slavery. The same slavery our elites love to claim that they abolished. They didn't, they just moved their operations where it couldn't be seen as easily.

  • @abandonedavocados
    @abandonedavocados 3 месяца назад +1

    Bob, this was a great video. Nice work!

  • @pablobrera2376
    @pablobrera2376 3 месяца назад +6

    12:16 The sign ask the students to tell if the found explosives!

  • @magdalenadelrosal1043
    @magdalenadelrosal1043 3 месяца назад +2

    how great that yor're in Latin America!! In Mendoza, Argentina, on the road to Chile, there`s an old abandoned thermal hotel called Puente del Inca that is so mysterious. It would be amazing if you could go, but I think it's quite dangerous cause it`s kindof on the cliff of a mountain. don't know how you could access. but you could check it out! you're not far.

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +1

      I will be exploring in Argentina hopefully soon 🤩🤩collecting some places now

    • @magdalenadelrosal1043
      @magdalenadelrosal1043 3 месяца назад

      @@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath That's great! I will be watching all those videos. The thing here in South America is that it's quite difficult to find well preserved places or stopped in time like you did in Japan, China or Egypt. People will generally sell their stuff or it will get looted. But I guess you can find some hidden treasure out there💛

  • @DiaCeroShow
    @DiaCeroShow 3 месяца назад +4

    Excelent video, i love that places, they have mystique👍Greetings from Chile, by a chilean! Welcome 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

  • @Metalstacker
    @Metalstacker Месяц назад +2

    Great explore and still some history left. This must have been a fun day! At 15:10 was that a fart? LOL

  • @quietusplus1221
    @quietusplus1221 3 месяца назад +1

    Interesting. This is a part of history you don't normally hear about. Such massive towns.

  • @Onelesstraveledby
    @Onelesstraveledby 3 месяца назад +2

    Very cool! Greetings from Canada, and thank you for sharing this!

  • @BelungKak85
    @BelungKak85 3 месяца назад +4

    Luar biasa perjalananya hampir setiap bulan keliling antar benua,Impressive trip

  • @andrea6421
    @andrea6421 3 месяца назад +1

    Wow! Great video! Imagine all the people there!

  • @JahsRulz
    @JahsRulz 2 месяца назад +1

    Those faded Allende posters, what a story they hint at.

  • @Jacquline-i8d
    @Jacquline-i8d 3 месяца назад

    What an amazing video Seeing all the abandoned buildings Thanks Bob thoroughly enjoyed it looking forward to part Two

  • @lznexpedicao
    @lznexpedicao 3 месяца назад +9

    ABRAÇO DO BRAZIL 🇧🇷 👏👏👏

  • @johnadriani7467
    @johnadriani7467 3 месяца назад +1

    I can only thank you very much for your work, nowhere else can you get such information as from you... so you can reverse engineer a lot of things and participate in current conditions in the world

  • @pablo17667140
    @pablo17667140 3 месяца назад +6

    24:45
    no alcoholic drinks
    no cigarrete
    no sniffing agorex glue

  • @danildkjfa9309
    @danildkjfa9309 2 месяца назад +1

    Such a great video! I'm from Chile and I don't really know much about our ghost towns. I don't think the hospital was abandoned that early tho! In the walls there were some kind of memories that people must have left before leaving the town, or revesiting it when it was already abandoned; they had old dates, since they tell that some person was born in there in 1951, or died in the room between those old years

  • @ronbunker5778
    @ronbunker5778 3 месяца назад

    It would be interesting to see what these towns looked like in their glory days, great video!

  • @roybm3124
    @roybm3124 3 месяца назад +1

    Wauw zo’n bijzondere plaats, even kijken of er nog oude beelden van zijn.

  • @franktrask1264
    @franktrask1264 3 месяца назад +5

    The "Otro Lado" at Pedro de Valdivia would have been more for the British Resident's, (NOT American at all) There were few supervisor of other nationalities'. Many of the British national supervisors that worked at Potrerillos were people that had left their jobs with the Anglo-Chilean Nitrate Co and came to new copper mine close by.

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад

      Good to know. Frank ! My information comes from official websites. Wonder why they call it that way...
      Were there also Germans?

  • @InFamousProductions
    @InFamousProductions 3 месяца назад +4

    and what do you think happened to the roofs? looks like they were scavenged or salvaged

  • @rcravincase
    @rcravincase 3 месяца назад +2

    I was curious why children would be finding explosives and what sort of government was in control during the era of this mine and town. It seems like quite a mess and I got lost by the late 30's

  • @andreag.e.
    @andreag.e. 3 месяца назад +6

    Welcome to my country Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

  • @mrPzero
    @mrPzero Месяц назад

    Thanks for the interesting videos! This is a straight location for post-apocalypse movies

  • @Infinity.Freedom
    @Infinity.Freedom 3 месяца назад +8

    love it!

  • @janicecopeland9083
    @janicecopeland9083 3 месяца назад +1

    This is amazing in a bizarre way, thanks Bob.

  • @simonlb24
    @simonlb24 3 месяца назад

    Another excellent video, thanks guys! One observation though: Those floor tiles in the hospital will almost certainly contain asbestos as that was universally used as a filler in most floor coverings (along with numerous other commonly used items) during that time period.
    Looking forward to part two now. Stay safe guys.

  • @aldaoroman
    @aldaoroman 3 месяца назад +5

    27:55 It says "My taste is clear".
    Man, as an neighbor of Chile, I'd love to visit that abandone Town, I find it very interesting.

    • @BilisNegra
      @BilisNegra 3 месяца назад +1

      By neighbor of Chile you mean Chilean citizen or somebody from the neighbouring countries (Argentina, Bolivia)?

    • @aldaoroman
      @aldaoroman 3 месяца назад +1

      @@BilisNegra I'm from Argentina.

    • @BilisNegra
      @BilisNegra 3 месяца назад +1

      @@aldaoroman Ah, ok, saludos desde España!

    • @aldaoroman
      @aldaoroman 3 месяца назад +1

      @@BilisNegra Aaah jajajaja, saludos che, un fuerte abrazo.

  • @levigato125
    @levigato125 3 месяца назад +7

    27:15 Was that a Citroen 2CV?

  • @CMExploration
    @CMExploration 3 месяца назад

    Thank you Bob for taking us to these awesome places! 🙏

  • @RonaldDaub-xi5jz
    @RonaldDaub-xi5jz 3 месяца назад +8

    We have some geoglyphs in Southern Illinois

  • @R118GSiVVC
    @R118GSiVVC 3 месяца назад

    Loving the series Bob!

  • @gregrumble8207
    @gregrumble8207 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for another great video of your exploration!

  • @jamesjungbauer7963
    @jamesjungbauer7963 3 месяца назад

    This is a crazy share wow thank you so much!

  • @InFamousProductions
    @InFamousProductions 3 месяца назад +1

    amazing . you guys are the best at doing these kinds of documentaries . I have a question. did those workers houses have dirt floors, and does it look like there was flooding? the amount of dust on everything is crazy.

  • @Darkk6969
    @Darkk6969 3 месяца назад

    Can't wait for the second video. Subscribed!

  • @heatherjackson2520
    @heatherjackson2520 3 месяца назад +1

    Great video! I wish you would have shown the inside of some of the American houses though. Just to get a perspective in the differences in living environments

  • @andrebuter2568
    @andrebuter2568 3 месяца назад

    Intriguing location, you remain one of the best explorers out there 🎉

  • @beachcomberbloke462
    @beachcomberbloke462 3 месяца назад +1

    Absolutely briiliant exploration,they really were a self contained community.Had to laugh thet the one building that was supposedly open to the public.tthe Church was locked! Maybe they left some valuable religious icons in there! Looking forward to episode 2 Bob.😎

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +1

      Thanks again man! Part 2 is going to be fun. Some cool machinery inside :D

  • @rustynail2205
    @rustynail2205 3 месяца назад +1

    11:28 a Canada Dry bottle a long way from home.

  • @rogerpod1137
    @rogerpod1137 3 месяца назад

    Very intresting,,thanks for sharing be safe,,love and support from Devon/uk 👍👍👍

  • @Fran_SG
    @Fran_SG 3 месяца назад +1

    Amazing!!

  • @icascone
    @icascone 3 месяца назад

    Fascinating!

  • @larjoe68
    @larjoe68 3 месяца назад

    Another incredible video, thanks

  • @CHAZZ-i5k
    @CHAZZ-i5k 3 месяца назад +1

    👋 PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA USA
    VERY VERY INTERESTING. I IN JOYED IT. THANKS.

  • @jngaio
    @jngaio 3 месяца назад

    That was fascinating!

  • @ferrovocho28
    @ferrovocho28 3 месяца назад

    Great video! I hope you can visit another salitreras too, and some abandoned railroad workshops, like in Llanta and Barquito near Chañaral, and if you can, try to go to Sewell, but for that one you need to go with a tourism agency, because the road is used to go to the mines near there, so is quite vigilated.

  • @TattooedTraveler
    @TattooedTraveler 3 месяца назад +4

    Looks wild

  • @semih7838
    @semih7838 3 месяца назад +5

    Respect from Turkiye.

    • @iamperplexed4695
      @iamperplexed4695 3 месяца назад

      Turkey.

    • @angelmessenger8240
      @angelmessenger8240 3 месяца назад +1

      @iamperplexed4695. The leader Erdoğan changed the name to Turkiye a couple of years ago.

  • @petetovar1733
    @petetovar1733 3 месяца назад

    Always enjoy your videos 👍

  • @paladinkhan
    @paladinkhan 3 месяца назад +1

    Im curious if the sign pictured at 13:12 says if or when, that changes the context a lot. If it does say "every time you find an explosive" i suppose it was a problem. A problem enough to make a sign for

  • @maryhairy1
    @maryhairy1 3 месяца назад

    The amenities had to be been amazing in the hay day!

  • @Bender24k
    @Bender24k 3 месяца назад +1

    Great video, makes me think. Did the inhabitants have a good life? I hope so. Things change, humans go with the flow. Glad I saw this piece of Chile. Thanks.

  • @KristianK9755
    @KristianK9755 3 месяца назад

    Hi Bob.
    Amazing places...scary dogs.

  • @divarachelenvy
    @divarachelenvy 3 месяца назад

    Just amazing..

  • @nickwilkinson7728
    @nickwilkinson7728 3 месяца назад +1

    How did they get water out there with such a high elevation ?

  • @waynekoepke8128
    @waynekoepke8128 3 месяца назад +1

    what happened to all the roofs and the glass in the buildings did they rot away or reused or stolen

  • @mond000
    @mond000 3 месяца назад

    8:59 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was released in 1964.

  • @FreefireKing027
    @FreefireKing027 3 месяца назад +2

    Nest videos abandoned military bunker ❤❤❤❤

  • @baothiletran-ef8zn
    @baothiletran-ef8zn 3 месяца назад

    thank you!

  • @CharlesHarpolek4vud
    @CharlesHarpolek4vud 2 месяца назад

    Some of the buildings have solid roof and would be good for a person who has no home to set up his tent in the middle of the living room and then live better under a roof than he would live on walkway of a town

  • @DrtyPenguinz
    @DrtyPenguinz 3 месяца назад

    I couldn’t remember your channel name so i looked up exploring with Bob 😂

  • @vwfanatic2390
    @vwfanatic2390 3 месяца назад

    Bethesda Game Studios should hire you to film sites for their Fallout games and/or the Fallout TV show.

  • @jopycatalin2648
    @jopycatalin2648 3 месяца назад

    Great location, you escaped from the police, you were very lucky, take care of yourself, I follow you with great love

  • @dejapb5651
    @dejapb5651 3 месяца назад

    Dragović is Slavic probably from ex Jugoslavija.

  • @andrewmacaulay1585
    @andrewmacaulay1585 3 месяца назад +1

    👍🇨🇦 New Brunswick

  • @BilisNegra
    @BilisNegra 3 месяца назад

    14:40 A portrait of President Allende, nice find. One of dictator Pinochet would have been historically interesting... but not nice.

  • @timlabell
    @timlabell 3 месяца назад +1

    I have watched your videos for a very long time.Bob. 👍 I'm wondering ,is this planned, permission granted, or are you truly...sneaking into these places? because the latter makes the most difference when I watch your videos.😊

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +1

      Hi Tim. I always sneak inside, otherwise I say it's a legal visit. In this case I paid a ticket because it recently opened up partly. But we snuck to some off-limit parts. In the next episode you see the off-limit factory part :)

  • @johniksushibar165
    @johniksushibar165 Месяц назад

    thanks, really interesting, are there any photo,s of when it was still a working mine ?. greeting from England where it always rains and we dont know what hot weather is ;-)

  • @tartarughaninja4
    @tartarughaninja4 3 месяца назад

    the surnames ending in Ć could be people escaped from balkan during the 1st world war... i had a distant family of my grandgrandfather that escaped during the 1st world war and went to america. last time we heard from them from what my family told me, was in the early 70s. not sure what happened to them afterwards, nobody from here tried to reach them and they didn't do it either.

  • @screwthecabal6453
    @screwthecabal6453 3 месяца назад +1

    Nothing can live there

  • @DavidMadeira29
    @DavidMadeira29 3 месяца назад

    Jesus, I didn't remember that Pompei was once in the Desert. I don't know. Namastè.

  • @BananaBalintYT
    @BananaBalintYT 2 месяца назад

    Coco Yoda 😂

  • @suyogsawant1104
    @suyogsawant1104 3 месяца назад +1

    🔥🔥🔥

  • @thomashewson
    @thomashewson 3 месяца назад +1

    Why do they leave shoes behind?

  • @eriktred
    @eriktred 3 месяца назад

    Bob is the best

  • @TerriAnnNiemeier-dy3no
    @TerriAnnNiemeier-dy3no 3 месяца назад +1

    They should fly the Homeless into these areas. Today we could truck in water and even with modern Technology make these viable places

  • @iamperplexed4695
    @iamperplexed4695 3 месяца назад +1

    Why would you need to worry about losing your equipment in a ghost town and how did la policia even know you were there? Surely you bring things to ensure your personal safety, weapons and the like.

    • @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath
      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath  3 месяца назад +1

      Probably robbers.I read a lot of stories of theft, burglary and raids. I don’t have any weapons. I live in Europe. All forbidden by law and also impossible to bring on a trip. I would end up in jail if I did. 😄

    • @iamperplexed4695
      @iamperplexed4695 3 месяца назад +2

      @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath When you are camping out, you need some good tools like a good knife, a hatchet, maybe a hammer for tent pegs, things like that. Plausible things, buy them in-country and leave them there.

  • @godgink33
    @godgink33 3 месяца назад +1

    วังเวงยังไงไม่รู้

  • @black_eagle
    @black_eagle 3 месяца назад +1

    Are you lockpickers? Seems like a useful skill for urbex, but I'd probably make my own in-country instead of trying to take them in my luggage.

  • @johnbest5074
    @johnbest5074 3 месяца назад

    How about the cemetery. ?

  • @kmkhare385
    @kmkhare385 2 месяца назад

    Awesome, horrible & abandoned town. Though some houses are intact.
    May be inhabited again

  • @hm6750
    @hm6750 3 месяца назад

    Did I hear someone far at 15:10 😂😂 not sure if I’m the only one who noticed it

  • @andrewdavies4604
    @andrewdavies4604 3 месяца назад +1

    That's just crying out to be used as a film set, very Terminator
    Either that, or paintballing
    You'd think people would pay money to play in a place like that

    • @taylorcameron8943
      @taylorcameron8943 3 месяца назад

      The amount of pollution there is probably crazy not to mention the use of asbestos in the buildings is probably why it's not toured more.

  • @krnekipac1
    @krnekipac1 3 месяца назад

    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @johnadriani7467
    @johnadriani7467 3 месяца назад +1

    For your next trips, you should equip yourself with face masks with activated carbon

  • @wideyxyz2271
    @wideyxyz2271 3 месяца назад

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln 3 месяца назад +1

    Nobody wants to live were it's so bloody hot all the time.

    • @Oo-IIII-oO
      @Oo-IIII-oO 3 месяца назад +1

      Obviuosly someone did.