We took another overnight bus to Concordia, an Argentinian town along the Rio Uruguay, and the point from which we would enter Uruguay. Fergus slept really well, Lindsay not so much due to the broken speaker above our heads that hummed ALL NIGHT. There are two ways to get from Concordia to Salto in Uruguay: a ferry across the river that takes about 10 minutes; or a bus that drives north to the bridge and back down taking about an hour. Neither services run on a ...

Overnight bus trips are the best idea ever. You save on a nights accommodation, and get all the long haul travel done without taking chunks out of the days when you can be doing things. At least you could be if you got more than 5 minutes sleep and the city you arrived in actually had anything open to do! We stepped off the bus around 8am, and fortunately our hostel was only a short walk and our room was available straight away. We had been under the impression ...

The bus trip over the Andes, what a view! We definitely recommend the bus trip (by day), one of the best scenic drives we know of. We just hope our photos through an irritatingly reflective bus window do it justice. On the Chileno side of the pass, the road follows the valley for a way, before turning and snaking directly up one of the mountains. We didn't count the number of bends, but it was an incredible road which you can make out reasonably well in our phot...

Our last week in Santiago was spent finishing our last week of classes, organising busses and accommodation and packing. We had seen everything we wanted to so we took it easy on Saturday, which wasn't too bad given it was a freezing day with some light rain, the only rain we saw the entire time. Our last saturday night we did head out for a cerveza, ending up at a little dive bar with perhaps 3-4 other patrons. You can buy whatever you like there, as long as its...

We hope you all had a a great break over Easter? In Chile only Friday is a public holiday, though the extra day was still great to have, as we used Friday as a homework day then still had 2 full days off. In the first week of our lessons we had joined an excursion to the museum of memory and human rights, which you may recall our guide spoke only in Spanish and we understood nada. So on Saturday we returned to this museum and obtained an audio guide in English s...