View over Santiago

Chilly In Chile

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August 29th 2008
On leaving New Zealand at 5pm on a Sunday afternoon, and having done an 11hr flight, we landed in Chile 3 hours earlier than when we had left???? It left us feeling very disorientated!!! We flew into Santiago the capital of Chile and started to get a little worried as within the first day we saw a dead body, a shoplifter in action and a thief in the street, however there was no need as it turned ... 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