Taste of luxury before I hit the hostels.

Finding my feet in Santiago

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November 18th 2008
Hola, I am sitting in a hotel lobby in Santiago right now! I left my house at 7am on Tueday morning and it is still tuesday 26 hours later!! Long journey to get here via auckland but am here and in one piece. I checked myself into a decent hotel for the first night - Hotel Orly, as tomorrow I will fly to Rio and stay in hostels. They got my booking wrong so have sent me to a hotel across the r ... read more

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago

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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