Combining a couple of days in Santiago with a visit to Easter Island is a perfect weeklong trip, and while it can be easier to get to Lima, the city is not nearly as attractive a destination.

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Tens of thousands of Cubans, waving Cuban and Vatican flags, gathered on a humid evening in the island's second city of Santiago, the cradle of the country's 1959 revolution.

WSJ: In Cuba, Pope Urges New Cooperation

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba's southeastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Monday, delivering Mass before throngs of Cubans in only the second papal visit in the island's history.

CNN: Pope arrives in Cuba; visit carries political tinge