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Atacama Desert

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July 16th 2011
Our time in the Atacama desert was amazing. We stayed at a beautiful hotel where every day you could choose to do guided excursions in the morning and in the afternoon out into the dessert, to hot springs, to the salt flats, to geysers, to volcanoes and to dozens of other places. On the first day we went horse riding through the oasis and into the dessert and we all liked that so much that we ro ... read more

South America » Chile » 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