We arrived in Santiago around 3:30pm and jumped into a taxi to the hostel de Sammy, it was recommended to us by some other folk we met in Peru. The guy had two cool dogs, a small golden lab and some other thing, I didn't know what it was but it looked nice. The place looked pretty good, heaps of stuff for wasting time. We headed off into the centre of town but seeing as it was a Sunday it was pretty deserted. Went and had a burger king as we hadn't seen one for a...

We set off for our mammoth journey to San Pedro De Atacama in Chile early, we first travelled 6 hours to The Peruvian-Chilean Border to a small town called Tacna, and we then jumped in a car with 3 other people to cross the border to Arica. We just made it onto another bus to San Pedro which was another 12 hours. The 12 hour bus was pretty comfy to it wasn't to bad, we managed to get plenty of sleep and arrived in San Pedro around 8 in the morning. They are reall...