The overnight bus was pretty impressive to Pucon. Despite the comfort we still did not manage to sleep so arived at Pucon very tired. For the first time in ages some one tried to sell us their hostel but we stuck with our guns and headed to our first choice which turned out to be a good choice. On our way we picked up two other people (Vicky and Matthew) who also came to the hostel. Keeley was pretty happy as the hostel included a vegeterian resturant. The first ...

The last few days in Santiago we did and saw more things than in the preceding week. On the tuesday we went up Cristobals a big hill in the middle of the city with a statue of the virgin mary on the top. The views were very good and you could tell that nearly six million people call Santiago home a third of the population. To get to the top we travelled by cable car we were greated by serene music and a tranquil atmosphere. Lots of people sitting quietly around m...

After a 12 hour flight we arrived in Santiago four hours before we left on Easter Sunday. Crossing the international date line is a very strange thing. We fared alright on the flight using the little Spanish we knew to order drinks so thought this wasn´t a bad start. We were pretty much whisked to our home stay by taxi so trying to listen to Spanish when you are very tired is pretty hard. Managed to string a sentence together saying we were tired and then went t...