San Pedro de Atacama, Chile 019

San Pedro de Atacama, a 23 Hour 19 Minute Bus Ride

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March 30th 2011
We arrived into San Pedro de Atacama around 930a after a night ride that took about 11 hours. The bus was nice and the ride wasn’t terrible, my knee started hurting after a while simply from lack of movement. We got off the bus and I was planning on hailing a taxi however I quickly realized that there were no taxis in this city. You can pretty much walk around it in a half hour or so. There were ... read more

South America » Chile » Atacama

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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