We spent a night in Vina Del Mar after Santiago. We stayed a night in a budget hotel rather than a hostel and it was great! We had an en suite with towels which is always amazing after using stinking travel ones for ages! It was quite a nice place and we got brekkie served to us the next day! We all liked Vina, its got a fairly ok beach in which people were swimming when we went and cool old spanish style houses dot the hill tops. There´s quite a big gap betwe...

After leaving Christchurch and a brief stop inbetween flights in Auckland, we arrived in Santiago around midday, a bit confusing as we left Auckland at 5pm! Santiago is 15hours behind New Zealand time so we lived Sunday twice! The flight wasn´t one of the best. Rach felt unwell and was very feverish and with the plane being hotter than usual, it wasn´t very fun for her. One of our TV screens wasn´t working either so it meant only two of us could watch films wh...