Santiago at Sunset

San Pedro de Atacama, La Serena and Santiago

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June 21st 2012
We got a transfer across the Bolivia/Chile border which was basically a bloke called Oscar driving a pickup truck. THe drive took about half an hour, and, like the salt flats, the landscape looked like you were on another planet. Straight away we noticed Chile was bit more civilised than Bolivia- they had roads- tarmac roads! We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama about 10am (we got up at 5am to go to ... 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