Salar de Uyuni Tour May 12 - 14 We were picked up from the tour office at around 8.30am after being told to be there at 8am and set off for the Chilean border. It was only five minutes down the road and a simple process of having our passports stamped on exit. We then had to drive for about half an hour through no mans land to get to the Bolivian Border, this gave us time to get to know the rest of the group. We already knew two of the guys, and the rest consist...

San Pedro de Atacama May 10 - 12 The night bus to San Pedro was an interesting journey to say the least, the initial leg was 15 hours to Calama on a semi cama bus. We thought this would be fine as we'd managed to sleep on one previously, however this bus appeared to be much older and we were unlucky enough to have a chronic snorer two rows infront of us! On the plus side we were provided with English films such at the Social Network, along with a snack box and b...

La Serena May 7 - 9 We arrived in La Serena after a seven hour bus journey and decided to walk to find a hostel as the taxis were trying to rip us off and our Spanish is not yet up to scratch to barter. We found Aji Verde, a cute little place on a back street and checked in for a couple of nights. A couple of guys from the hostel were heading out to the Elqui Valley the following day so we jumped on the bandwagon and booked ourselves on too. Initially we were g...

Valparaiso May 4 - 7 Valparaiso is Chiles principal port´and naval base, aswell as being known for it´s nightlife amongst the Chileans. The journey to Valparaiso was only a couple of hours, so we arrived with a hostel in minded but after realising it wasn´t the greatest area we set off for Cerre Concepcion (the UNESCO Heritage site of the city). Realising that it was at the top of a hill we set about climbing the steps with our backpacks. At the top of th...

Santiago May 2 - 4 After an awesome time in New Zealand and a very difficult and tearful goodbye in Auckland I was left on my own until Fossey arrived. We both knew it would be difficult but it ended up being harder than we both imagined. I couldn´t check in for another hour or so, so I decided to sit in the sky deck area and watch Sean take off - this just made me more sad though so once he had gone I went and checked for my flight. This seemed to take forever...