San Pedro de Atacama 3

San Pedro de Atacama

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December 28th 2007
We arrived in San Pedro at around 4pm and discovered getting your hands on cash here can be a problem. Only one machine took our cards and rarely had money. We have never appreciated the american dollars in our wallet so much! After a good nights sleep we set of in the afternoon for the ´Moon Valley´. We were guided through the desert by a newcastle born chap with a south african accent (we don ... 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