Santiago

First Impressions

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February 3rd 2008
Well we arrived. After roughly 35 hours transit we touched down in Santiago at 6:00am monday 21st January. We easily negotiated the public transport system and by 7am were at our hostel - Che Lagarto. On arriving here we were quick to discover that unlike Europe not every second person speaks english, nor does every third, it is more like one in 20 at best. After confirming that we did in fact ... 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