Church Bells

Atacama desert

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April 20th 2007
Another overnight bus journey that was 15 1/2 hours of bliss in a Cama Saloon - these are seats that lie down flat and are like big lazy boy chairs. We arrived in this little town called San Pedro de Atacama without a hostel booking, the first time we had gone cold into a town. What a different little town to what we are used to. This is the first time we felt we had arrived in a different cult ... 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