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Santiago, jetlag city

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November 24th 2010
Vowing to return to Sydney one day and excited about South America we arrived in Santiago very, very, very jetlagged. The flight took 15 hours, but we arrived only 2 hours later and it was the most disoriented and tired that we'd felt from our journey so far (in fact in our lives!). We spent a few days acclimatising at our funky hostel Don Santiago, a cool, welcoming place with a penchant for Jam ... 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