First hill/castle thing we climbed

Santiago

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August 23rd 2008
Polly: We´ve been in Santiago since Sunday, and have generally been relaxing. It´s a big city, but unlike Rio and Buenos Aires, everything shuts much earlier and is a lot more sleepy. Even KFC was shut at 10pm! It´s a fairly clean city and because the weather has been sunny with a gentle breeze, it hasn´t been very polluted. What really makes it special though is the snow capped Andes whi ... 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