Smile for the camera

Pingu...and about 200,000 of his friends

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February 14th 2008
Getting down to Patagonia, I quickly discovered, is not the easiest of things to do. For one thing, there aren't any roads south through Chile. The furthest south you can go by road in Chile is the Carretera Austral, which stops someway north of here. When I started looking at my options for coming here, they all seemed to be either expensive (flying), take a long time (by bus through Argentina) o ... 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