Santiago, Chile Well it is amazing to think that two weeks has passed since we left Australia. In those two weeks we have crammed in so much, the first being a short stay in Santiago. South America, we are finding, is a place of contrasts at every level. In Chile alone you only have to look at the landscape to see where I am coming from. Nowhere else in the world can you go from the driest desert on the planet (the Atacama in the north), through magical mountains, and end up only a stone´s throw from Antarctica. After only 4 days in Santiago we came to the realisation that we aren´t going to be able to spend a lot of time here so moved to the port city of Valparaiso. This used to be a
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