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Back in Touch

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May 4th 2006
Yes after several days I am back in front of a computer. We have been crossing many hundreds of kilometres of the world´s driest desert- the Atacama and boy is it dry! No plants, no trees, no bushes, no insects, no birds, just rocks and sand! Yesterday we spent most of the day around the salt lake of the Salar de Atacama taking in the enormity of he landscapes - volcanoes, salt for miles, flami ... read more

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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