Our plans for our final week were to hire a car and head North to San Pedro De Atacama taking in a few other sites along the way. Unfortunately after flying into Santiago we found out there'd been huge floods wiping out roads and villages halfway between Santiago and where we wanted to get to. It was all over the news here and it had been declared a state of emergency so we decided to play it safe and not go North and to head for the Chilean Lake District instead...

The border crossing from Argentina to Chile was pretty easy/uneventful. Although do you remember the blog we did about the journey to Guayaquil when the English were blamed for blocking the toilet on the bus? Well it's official it's not the English who do this it's the Koreans! We got back on the bus after border control and I needed the toilet so I went to the back of the bus and it was being used. I queued for 5 minutes when an unbelievable stench of poo starte...