Day 47 This cover photo is also of the Valley of the Moon because once again I took no photos today. I realised it was the first of the month at about 4am, when I couldn't sleep, but Victoria was dead to the world and I didn't wanna wake her up by pinching and punching her. This was a very silly idea because she woke up, saw the date and got me first

Day 46 The cover photo for today is of yesterday's subset at the Valley of the Moon, because I didn't take any photos of today. Disaster had struck; the original plan was to cross the Argentinian border into Salta today, but due to an extreme snow blizzard (even though it was a toasty 14• in San Pedro) the border was shut, and so we had to find some other way to get to BA. Rodrigo's solution was to catch a 24 bus to Santiago, and then fly to Buenos Aries fro...

Day 45 I spent the early hours of this morning trying to catch up on blog posts, which failed spectacularly as I'm writing this almost 3 weeks behind (I've been busy ok) Finally got up at about 11.30, we went to get some Empanadas for lunch, because we were doing a Valley of the Moon tour at 1pm. The hotel had a resident dog and cat (it seems that no one owns the animals in South America, there are dogs and cats everywhere but they seem to just wander around a...

Day 44 We had to get up at 5am this morning in order to cover all we wanted to by 2pm, when we were meeting the new bus at the Bolivian border. Unfortunately my arm decided to play up and so I was rendered incapable of successfully packing my own bag (thank you for helping Victoria) Our first stop was the stone tree, which is a series of volcanic rock formations, one of which is shaped sorta like a tree. Now they're in the middle of a freezing and windy desert,...

Day 43 7am start, so not too early, although breakfast was a disaster. As usual it was bread and Jam, but my friend Sarah has coeliac disease, which means she can't eat gluten (no bread) and so the hotel was supposed to prepare her an omelette, but forgot. So Rodrigo was not happy at all, argued with them and eventually she got her omelette (literally as we were leaving) First stop was Incahausi, which is an island in the middle of the salt flats, all the rock ...