With Chile and Argentina not being as cheap as we had hoped for, we had to try and close our ears to all the other amazing things to do and head straight up to the north to have one last Chilean experience before passing into Bolivia. Pucon being in the lower half of what is a very long country it was going to be a journey and a half. We left Pucon with farewells from people we know we'll see again either because they are travelling north and therefore taking a ...

We had no idea what we would do or where we would go in Chile, until we met a guy called Peter in Mendoza who made a suggestion that we could not pass up. Climbing a volcano has got to be right up there on anyone's bucket list, so when this was mentioned we knew it was for us! Pucon would be our destination and the setting for our most extreme emotional-roller-coaster ride so far! Our first thoughts when we arrived were not of getting to our pre-booked hostel, ...