A simple 5 hour bus ride across the boarder into Chile.....or so we thought. WRONG! Customs took ages and then we were stopped by a road block a mere 6km from our final desitination because of a Car Rally! Yes, you read it right, they closed the only road from the boarder to the nearest town of Porto Natales because of a god damn Rally race. Clearly this was one rally too many for a local who decided to end it all by throwing herself infront of a rally car. Welcome to Chile!

On a positive note, we stayed in wicked hostel run by Americans who of course knew how to celebrate Halloween. So after a few hours of sorting out our trekking routes, hiring equipment and buying food for the days ahead we were able to party Chilean/American styley. With litre bottles of beer, a chori BBQ (chorizo style sausage) and lots of cute kids dressed to scare we partied along with the locals and other travellers in excited anticipation of the days ahead.

With an early start and not much sleep (I kept waking up due to excitement and due to fear of oversleeping) we headed off into some more truely amazing and mesmorising scenery. Patagonia is very greedy and has seriously taken the lions share when it comes to stunning mountanious scenery. After a few blissful hours of gazing out of the window we caught a catamaran for an hour across a chalky turquoise lake surrounded by picture postcard views.

We checked into our rather posh refugio (a hotel with predominately dorms) and then headed out to see Glacier Grey. Thankfully we had great weather and boy was I thankful. The sun was shining brightly in a bright blue sky and it was still pretty damn chilly - however we were told that´s as good as the weather gets this time of year. After a few hours of walking through some of the most dramatic scenery yet we reached views across the glacier. Once again it took our beath away. Argie is blessed when it comes to beauty.

That night, by a roaring fire, we drank Cat Piss, or a brand of wine called Gato (Spanish for Cat) whilst admiring the scenery and the beautifully changing colours in the sky and a display of fantastically shaped clouds. It was a full moon and you could clearly see the Man on the moon, but also as clear as anything, there was a bunny rabbit. Oh yes! It was definately a rabbit shining down on us and not just the Gato making us see things. The sky in Patagonia offers some of the best colours, cloud formations and views of the moon that we´ve ever see. I could watch it for hours and luckily as it doesn`t get dark til 10 we had plenty of opportunity to do just that.

Day 2, Sadly Kelly had to leave us but God was looking down on us and gave us 2 more poor victims onto whom we could dispose of Moomin on. So after a leisurely brekkie with Kelly, Stu and I wondered off in the wilderness.

The sun had decided to take the day off and had handed his shift over to hail, light rain and the cold. We soldiered on passing lakes and crossed a shaky wooden-planked bridge to the base of another glacier. We clambered up and inclined to the Valley de Frances. This valley offered views over the lakes and a close view of the glacier. We heard the roar of small avalancher - which were pretty loud due to being in an ampitheatre style setting.

After 2 days of walking and the weather forecast not looking positive we decided to head back to civilization. Also, the thought of a day alone with Moomin was not our idea of fun. So after a mere 3 days, albeit a very memorable 3 days, we left Chile to head back to El Calafate in Argie.