The twenty-three and a half hour bus ride was by far the worse one I had encountered on my South American travels. For some reason I was just restless the whole way. I couldn't get into my latest read The Cocaine Wars, I couldn't get comfortable, the food was sub-standard either a cheese or ham roll and a peach juice, peach juice is one of my least favourite of the juices. The films they put on were only in Spanish, well besides for one, which I got into ...

It was a mere two hours from Valparaiso back to Santiago, after reading a few chapters of the Sir Alex Ferguson autobiography I decided upon a little snooze, it semt like it only lasted two minutes though as we were dropped off just outside the big bus terminal in Santa Cruz. We arrived in Santi at around 110.30pm so we would not be in Santiago that long, we had a bus the next morning to go to San Pedro de Atacama so our plan was simple to save costs we would ro...

We were back on a Condor bus, we managed to put up with the extreme warmth, excessive seats and lack of leg room for their one advantage of it being an absolutely bargain price compared to the other companies. I guess you get what you pay for. We arrived in Santiago half asleep at 5.30am. I was in a nasty habit of leaving things behind, the first thing to go was my hat on the first condor bus trip, then my sunglasses did a vanishing act after the volcano trek and...

Our road trip got underway after Katy had finished faffing about sorting her stuff. I'd also like to point out that Katy's full name is Katherine Denise, a name she loves I'm sure she would thank me for putting it on the internet. I claimed shotgun which was not ideal as it meant I had to stay awake keeping the driver entertained and I was shattered and very jealous of Earl who was lay in the back snoozing most of the journey. Katy was also quite the nervous dri...

We met Shell at the bus stop at around 20:30; the cheapest bus was not until 23:00 so we waited around chatting, playing cards, wondering around until it was time to board the bus. In my humble opinion the bus which took us to Pucon was one of the worse, or actually probably the worse we have had to date. It wasn't all that bad but it didn't live up to some of the others. It semt that Condor - the bus company had gone for quantity over quality. We were at the bac...