Feliz Navidad - dashing through the snow capped mountains to Argentina for the silly season
December 29th 2009 Over the past few months we have often asked ourselves 'what exciting place will be for Christmas? And what will we be doing??'. Well it was a few days before Christmas and we still had no answers for these questions. And so a plan was devised to leave Chile and race through central western Argentina for the silly season.
Just a couple of hours out of Santiago and we were already high in the An
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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more 
