Torres Del Paine from boat

Happy in Chile

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November 25th 2005
The bus journey down to Puerto Natales was pretty uneventful. We did see the Torres del Paine mountains in the distance however the only point of note was marvelling at just how long the border crossing process took. We passed this time with Rory, Emer and Bettina who we first met on the ruta40 trip and had met again in El Calefate and their stories of taking nearly 24 hours to cross a border in 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