Santiago

turks & caicos
sounds like you two have had quite an adventure in south america. it has been very entertaining "traveling" with you. just wanted to add that in south america, arabs are often called "turks", because they came to the americas at the time the ottoman empire was still ruling the area so they arrived with turkish passports, hence the name turk. most of the ones in chile are palestinians, 85% of whom are christians, and chile has the largest palestinian community outside the middle east. they have been very successful in the 100+years they have been in chile and even have a professional division 1 soccer team. i read recently that 10% of the chilean congress is of at least partial palestinian descent. the bellavista area has relatively few palestinians left, most of whom have moved on. the area is still largely immigrant, with newly arrived koreans, chinese, and south americans. saludos!