We left Pucon on the evening of the 14th December for a 10 hour overnight bus to Santiago, the Chilean capital. We had a 5 hour break there then boarded a 24 hour bus to San Pedro de Attacama. Yes, a 39 hour journey! It wasn't so bad as it goes as we booked on the cama (executive class) buses so it was pretty comfortable and the journey from Santiago was interesting as we went up the coast taking in the rugged coastline and watching the terrain get more and ...

We arrived in Pucon in the Chilean side of the lake district from Bariloche after another long days travelling using 3 different buses. We're getting very acquainted with bus travel on this trip!! What we first noticed about Pucon is that it isn't as picturesque as Bariloche but what it does have is all manner of white knuckle activities for the outdoor sporting minded. Our first day here was spent organising ourselves for our stay here and trying to sort o...

We arrived in Bariloche, in the Argentinian lake district on 8th December after a 34 hour 3 stage bus ride from El Calafate which started at the gruesome hour of 3am. We had heard good things about Bariloche from travellers we had met so after all this effort we felt this had better be worth it. Once again we were not to be dissapointed. We stayed in this amazing hostel in the hills with an unbelievable view of the lake and mountains. It's a bit of an insult...

We arrived here from Chile and stayed in the pleasant, if touristy town of El Calafate and booked our tour via the hostel. We had heard great things about the glacier and we weren't to be dissapointed. The glacier is the size of Buenos Aires in terms of area and rises to around 60 metres in height. It's a truly phenomenal site and we're not sure any photos can do it justice. Every so often you could hear what sounded like gunfire but was in fact chunks of ic...

We left Ushuaia on the 29th and had to travel over a day to get to Puerto Natales, the Gateway town for the Torres Del Paine National park in Chile. We stayed at a hostel who supplied us with all our camping equipment. Despite the fact that Stuart had earmarked us to come here some time ago, he was getting considerably nervous at the prospect of camping, particularly as he had never put up a tent in his life! Fortunately, Jo was considerably more confident with a...