For you Steph

Feeling Chile (see what i did there? It was cold at night so it works too. So there)- Atacama Desert

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August 27th 2012
So, as it was kinda on the way anyway, (they take you to the border on the last day of the Salar de Uyuni tour) we thought we´d nip into Chile, see whats happening. Atacama is apparently the driest desert in the world. I don´t know much about deserts, but I do know they´re dry, so the driest sounds like the thing to do, especially as i haven´t been to one before (note - i have. In Australia. I ... 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