Took a 22 hour bus journey up to San Pedro in northern Chile..its certainly anything but Chilly here as its in the middle of the desert! The bus journey was pretty dam good, I wasn't expecting it to be great but it was fab and we even got refreshments (Salami roll and coconut chips!) Arrived to the small town of San Ped to baking hot conditions and within seconds of getting off the bus was bothered by tour sellers and hostel owners. Quickly got rid of them and th...

Arrived safely to San Tiago! The flight over went much quicker than I expected (probably because I watched Oceans 13 twice) but I was surrounded by what seemed like a million Spanish speaking Chileans and a handful of scared looking backpackers! Managed to hook up with 2 other backpackers in the arrivals hall so we went and found a cheap hostel in the centre of ST and then went and explored! The first thing which struck was how European San Tiago was and the s...