Middle Chile's Wine Growing Region from the Bus

The Oasis that is San Pedro de Atacama

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December 10th 2004
Our First Road in a While After being left for a while standing on the border with Chile, our bus finally turned up. I've never been so pleased to see a cloud of dust rising from the road in the distance - the sure sign of a vehicle coming our way. After 5 minutes of dirt track we reached something quite unexpected - a road! The first proper road we'd experienced in quite a long time - it ... 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