Chile: Well, only by night, the rest of the time the climate is actually rather pleasant.
March 17th 2013 After a lengthy delay during which Emma and Bob spent all of our free food vouchers on wine and Chris went into student mode, managing to blag a free pizza and plate of nachos, we finally got out of Auckland airport and left New Zealand behind us flying to Chile, our first stop on the final part of our journey around South America.
It turns out that staying in dorms in a rowdy hostel in the cen
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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 
