A long 16 hour bus ride from la Serena was extended a little after being held at a stand still as a result of a horrific head on accident between a semi trailer and a mini van. Quick reminder of how easily these things can happen and how fast life can be taken away on these treacherous roads in South America. Managed to sleep ok and arrived mid morning in San Pedro de atacama. The stepping stone into Death Valley and a common border cross into Bolivia. This tow...

On our last night day in maitenecillo Bez found a sick little apartment on air BnB and shot of an email to the owner requesting it for 4 nights. Got the green light and the bloke even knocked the price down for us. Woke up and got packed up before heading down for our last breakfast before organizing how we would actually find a bus to take us into la Serena. The coast of maitenecillo isn't exactly central so we were planning on getting a local bus to the main h...

Arriving bang on beer o'clock we were eager to find somewhere to settle and kick back on this amazing part of isolated coast. Some friendly locals met us and called around to help us find a place to stay. Bear and Bez minded the bags while me and mark jumped in the tray of the ute and took off down the road to suss out or options. The first was an amazing little villa on the beach - literally on the beach! However we quickly realized that we would be paying a li...

Valparaìso said to be the weekend play ground for Santiago's rich and famous. A beautiful port city rich with cobbled steets winding high into the mountains and some of the most amazing graffiti art you'll see. Our hostel was basically the top floor of a guys house that he'd converted the rooms into bunks toque a little more back packer friendly. Arriving late in the afternoon we were keen to wonder off quick to find a nice lookout for some Friday arvo froffies....

Our bus ride in was a lot longer than expected but was made fun from mine and tommy's constant banter and s*** talk toward one another. Parting ways with my big pommy companion sucked a little as he'd previously arranged to stay with a local guy in providencia in Santiago. I wasn't too worried because I was expecting to meet Mark (uk) and the boys from Ballarat Chris (Bezza) and Michael (Bear) shortly after I arrived. We split cabs to our hostel la casa roja. A f...