Salt Lake

Altitude and the Atacama Desert

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December 28th 2010
So we were sad to be leaving Argentina where we have spent most of the last couple of months enjoying the food, wine, sights, sounds and scenery. But the plan for the second half of our South American trip is to head north, and so this is what we did. We had booked onto an early bus that would take us from Salta across the Andes to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. We just made it to the station ... read more

South America » Chile » Antofagasta Region » San Pedro de Atacama

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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