During the night there were some weird noises but we put these down to horses passing by the cabin, the cows and the dogs. By the time we got up the sun was already high in the sky. Our plans for breakfast were a bit compromised as during the night an animal (mostlikely one of the dogs) had got the plastic box which we kept cheese in out of the stream and had eaten the contents! The day was hot o we decided to do some reading. Kevin read a cartoon book by xxxx, ...

After checking out of the Mar Andino Hotel we went shopping at a supermarket on the outskirts of Rancagua. It was a Sunday and packed with folk stocking up for Christmas. What was noticeable was that folk were buying lots of soft fizzy drinks, like Coca-Cola and Fanta. Our food shopping was a bit random as we did not know what cooking facilities we would find at our next stop, up in the National Park Radal Siete Tazas. A typical Chilean food is empanadas, traditi...