Journey Santiago to FijiI got to the bus station in plenty of time for my coach to Santiago. It was full this time and annoyingly the majority of the passengers seemed to be made up of some sort of school trip. So I spent 8 hours trapped in a confined space with thirty odd excitable children, not my idea of fun. I was puzzled as to why the return journey was two hours longer than when I went from Santiago to Mendoza but I soon realized why once we got to the Chil...

MendozaWe got to Mendoza at about 8pm and made our way to Break Point hostel where I'd sent an email to reserve. No room at the inn though so we carried on up the road. I was trying to play it cool as we were in a very upmarket area but managed to completely fail by tripping and nearly falling into one of the very big troughs in the pavements, there to prevent flooding. Marvellous. After gaining my composure we walked up Villanueva Avenue which seemed to be the p...

San PedroWe eventually found a 6 bed dorm in San Pedro, which was very much like a cave but very cool inside -much needed in this desert heat. San Pedro itself is very tourist and every second shop is offering some guided tour or other. It is very laid back and bohemian though and I really liked the place. After sorting the hostel out, we all wanted to sort buses out. My original plan was to get a bus to Salta in Argentina and then go to Mendoza for a wine tour a...

Uyuni and the Salt FlatsWhen we arrived a lady met us and took us to the tour office. We dropped our stuff off and had about 3 hours to kill so we went and bought snacks, water and the all-important toilet roll to get us through the next three days. Bex had brekkie (I was trying not to eat as I still wasn't well. This was proving extremely difficult for me since I love my food so much.) and we went to get our passports stamped as we would be getting dropped off o...

La PazI realise that I am extremely behind in my blogs as my father has kindly pointed out to me but it takes so long to type this up and is costing me a fortune in internet cafes! So apologies for this and I will try to type quicker, either this or get myself a PA to type it up for me...Upon arriving we found a radio cab to take us to the hostel (a very cool old hotel with an old ballroom as a bar). The taxi driver was just a little bit mad, drove like a maniac,...