ARICA AND BACK AGAIN: A TALE OF CHICKEN & CHIPS, LOCAL BUSES & FLYING SHITTY NAPPIES.
July 24th 2006 As is normal, life doesn’t really always go to plan! Thinking that I still had a month left to extend my three month visitor pass and organize my documents: it was quite unplanned to find out that my three month pass was actually a two month pass and that I had but three days to get to the border and leave the country. However, 24 hours and a 17 hour bus ride later, Elvis and I rolled into th
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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 
