Castillo on Cerro Santa Lucia

Santiago and Valparaiso

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January 29th 2013
Sorry so far behind on the blogs. Santiago is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Almost all the museums I wanted to see were closed but I fortunately found a lot of smaller museos and galleries. I went to visit the Virgen on the top of Cerro San Cristobal, I planned to take the funicular, but it was being repaired. I ended up climbing to the top with a nice Argentinian plant biologi ... 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