After 17 hours of bus overnight from La Serena in a ´Cama´bus (this is where the seats almost become beds!) we arrived in Calama, the biggest town in the Atacama which serves the local mining copmmunity. We needed to change buses here to head to San Pedro where we would be spending our next 3 days before entering into Bolivia. A couple of hours later, after having realised there was more than one bus company which serviced Calama-San Pedro (it was the other sid...

Santiago- where do we start?! We had such an amazing time here thanks to the wonderful parents of our spanish teacher in London- Claudia. After a 12 hour overnight bus ride from Pucon, we arrived in Santiago (the capital of Chile-a city of about 4.5million inhabitants) at 09:00 in the morning to Claudia´s dad waiting for us with a sign with our names in it! So nice. we were welcomed like Kings and Queens. It was such a relief to not have to think about whe...

So we ventured on to Validivia a small town situated north of Chiloe on an estuary to the west of the lakes area Extremely famous for its beer due to German immigration many years ago, the town was cluttered with bars all over the city! We spent just one day here but it was nice to be near the water and walk around the botanical gardens. We also took a local bus over to a small ´Pueblo´or village about 20km outside of Validivia where the Spanish invaded the to...

So it's been a while since we updated you on whats going on with our trip- for the last few weeks we have been acclimatising to a new continent, language and way of travelling. After having left the heat of Buenos Aires behind, we acclimatised to the fresher, colder climate that was Patagonia! As we arrived in Ushuaia, Christmas at the end of the world desceded upon us.We celebrated it on the evening of the 24th with lots of people we met in the hostal from al...