Central Santiago

Farewell my sweet SA

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October 25th 2006
So its time to say a sad goodbye to South America. We have had such a wonderful time here - its hard to believe we have been here 5 months - it feels both longer and shorter than that. Our final days have been spent in Santiago - the capital of Chile aka the least recommended place we have been. Whenever we spoke to anyone previously about having been here we generally got a wrinkle of the nose, a ... 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