One of the larger geysers

El Tatio and El Tonto (The Grandfather and The Idiot)

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November 5th 2010
San Pedro de Atacama El Tatio Oozed out of bed at 330am yesterday morning, rugged up with all of the warm clothing that i'd brought with me, and headed out the front of the hostel to wait for the van that was supposed to take me to the El Tatio geyser field. It arrived about half an hour late, by which time my face had pretty much lost all feeling from the cold (apparently deser ... 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