After 10 and a bit weeks traversing South America Emily and I found ourselves back in Santiago, Chile, from whence our journey had began all the way back on the 25th of April. Santiago itself is a beautiful city, in many ways it resembles Buenos Aires in both cityscape and suburban architecture. Likewise, the two great cities also enjoy a similar first world feeling. If you were fortunate enough to be gainfully employed in Santiago I would guess that your lifest...

Left Santiago today for Valiparaso which was only a two hour journey by comfortable bus, and thus I missed the scencery as I slept the whole way. South America was an unknown for us, as neither Em or I had heard anything of the continent really. Other than what I had read as an infant in National Geographic. As it has turned out South America, on first impressions, is much more like Europe than Asia. Chile has splendid infrastructure, relatively clean streets ...