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A Taste of Chile!

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April 3rd 2008
It took a while to settle, once I arrived in Santiago, as the flight from Auckand over gave me crazily awful jetlag! I didn´t know whether I needed to eat, sleep or cry for about 3 days! Nevertheless, I ploughed on with 2 days of sightseeing within the city centre. Santiago is a lot more cosmopolitan than I had imagined it to be. We were staying in the area of Provedencia, with its little streets ... read more

South America » Chile

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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