We arrived in Santiago with Fabien at 7am after a 23 hour bus journey. Once at the hostel we freshened up and took a stroll to find some food before deciding to go on a free walking tour of the city. The tour was very good and took us to all the main points of the city whilst giving us some brief history of Chile. It lasted 4 hours and after a 45 minute walk back to the hostel we were all exhausted so had an early night to make sure we were on top form for th...

After saying our goodbyes to the the rest of the group, us two, Fabien, Dorf and Anthony caught our bus, which turned out to be a nice people carrier to the border crossing for San Pedro de Attacama. The boarder was a long process and Rachel got caught out as she forgot there was an apple in her bag, although the immigration staff let her off. We then got dropped off in the centre of town, where we were surrounded by promoters for hostels. Dorf and J went off t...