Sara Braun's mansion

The long road north starts here

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February 4th 2008
As we left Ushuaia to get the bus back across Tierra del Fuego to Punta Arenas in Chile I had the time to think about how much time it had taken us to get to the end of the world. Turns out to be about 120 hours of time on buses, not counting side trips. Five overnight trips so far. No idea how many thousands of kilometres. Anyway we had a fairly long day from Ushuaia to Chile, very rainy and ... read more

South America » Chile » Magallanes » Punta Arenas

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more