That's how the night sky used to look like everywhere.
Chile! Low population, high desert with the Southern Milky Way way up in the sky. With the cold, dry Pacific ocean and the trade winds to provide laminar air flow for sharp seeing. That's paradise for staragazers, and that's why they build the really big scopes there.
The time exposure in this photo brings out color that the naked eye wouldn't pick up in that scene, but that's pretty much what the unaided eye would see.