San Martin Plaza

Santiago, Chile

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June 16th 2012
We left Auckland on the 16th June 2012 at 16:00; we arrived in Santiago, Chile, following an 11 hour flight at 11:00 also on the 16thof June. Chile is quite a thin country trapped between the Andes’ mountains and the sea. On our approach to the airport we were looking UP at the mountain tops for the last 15 minutes of the journey. The mountains here are double the size of the ... 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