And we are back on the road, it is going to take 3 days to get to Santiago by dumping the car about a third of way back and flying the last 1000 miles.

End of the road for us

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February 4th 2010
It’s the end of the road for us! All good things come to an end or so we thought but the Carretera Austral had one last thing to throw at us. The road divides near the bottom of Chile and we had to decide where we stayed, the community of O Higgins or the remote outpost in the Chilean Fjords of Tortel . Both places were the end of the road. We chose Tortel. Not sure how to paint a pic ... read more

South America » Chile » O Higgins

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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