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San Pedro de Atacama.......bye bye to Chile

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April 25th 2008
San Pedro de Atacama is the driest desert in the world. It was also our first experience of being at high altitude - not so bad, a little breathless, but the main difference was the weather. It could be 30 deg C in the day, though cooler in the shade, but freezing at night, yet we still camped.........impressed? (no, of course not, that's just plain stupidity). Of course no South American camps ... 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