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Exploring Santiago

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March 14th 2014
This morning I had to take care of a couple of "housekeeping" chores before really starting the day. My shoes, as I have noted, had gotten very dusty in San Pedro, so I wiped them off as well as I could last night and today I found a shoeshine stand. As in Istanbul, there are shoeshine men everywhere you turn here in Santiago. One difference between the two cities is that the men here have signs 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