The next destination was a place in Chile called Torres del Paine which is famous for trekking. Our tour gave us the opportunity to do the W trek a three or four day trek in the shape of a W and basically going up and down three mountains. You also have to carry everything on your back for the three days including food and tents etc. Surprisingly we were considering doing it. But then the price of the rental and campsites proved too expensive for something we we...

We arrived into the national park after a long drive, we had to set up tents on a gravel roadway which was covered in big stones, thankfully our air beds were good enough to not feel them once we were laid down. The landscape at the park was very nice, we went to a look out point to see the hanging glacier, it was very impressive as it was high up in a cliff face with water running down from it into the lake below. There wasn't much else to do here apart from hik...

We drove back into Chile to visit a tiny town called Futaleufu which is famous for its white water rafting. It is meant to be one of the top 5 rivers in the world for rafting. It was my turn for cook group and it went terribly!!! Firstly the shop was absolutely tiny, so we decided to make a turkey pasta as they had no chicken. Then when we started one of the guys put the veg in with the water for the pasta, the other guy then added the tomato sauce to the water s...

We finally got into Santiago and got a taxi to the hostel where we had booked into for the start of our tour. They had no rooms available for us so we had to go to another one down the road, we decided to get a private as we needed to sort all our bags out before the tour. For dinner that night we went to a takeaway place and got a large pizza with wings and garlic bread. We ate the wings and bread and got really full so saved the pizza for the next day. The ne...