Plaza de Armas, Sorata

Getting our just des(s)erts

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July 8th 2010
Hola amigos; here we are now in Chile, writing to you from the sleepy (and very touristy) town of San Pedro de Atacama. It's been quite a journey since we last wrote to you, so I guess I'd better start from the beginning... The day after our bike ride we decided to take a trip out of La Paz to a village a few hours North called Sorata, known for a nearby cave containing a pool historically beli ... 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