Santiago de Chile Photo 2

Santiago de Chile

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June 8th 2010
The flight passed swiftly with us once again travelling against time and loosing sleeping time as we went (not that it is particularly easy to sleep on long haul flights). Crossing the international dateline, we touched down in Santiago effectively earlier than when we'd left Auckland. Immigration was smooth but at customs we were faced with our first lot of incomprehensible Chilean Spanish, ass ... read more

South America » Chile » Santiago Region

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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