Miscanti Lagoon

San Pedro de Atacama

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May 15th 2011
After getting to Antofagasta we decided to get the bus to San Pedro for a few days. We left our bikes in the bike shop in Antofagasta to get some work done and took the 4 hour bus journey over. San Pedro is a small town in the middle of the desert, near the border of Argentina and Bolivia. It has an awesome landscape around it as it borders the Andes and also has the barren desert environment in t ... 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