วันอาทิตย์ที่ 17 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2551

Atacama Desert Ghost Town

The Atacama Desert is an amazing place - renowned as the driest place on earth it conjures up images of a desolate barren wilderness. Which, of course much of it is, but it is also a land of great natural beauty and fascinating human history. One such period of its colourful history was the nitrates boom, which resulted in the British ghost towns, that still stand, arrogantly Victorian in uninhabited parts of the desert where it never rains.

Nitrates first began to be commercially exploited in the 1860 when the [tags]Chile, Atacama Desert, Atacama, Travel, Holidays, Humberstone, Desert Vacation, Desert Holiday[/tags]

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