The bus journey to Santiago was pretty interesting, because you have to cross over the Andes to get into Chile.This afforded us some spectacular views of snowcapped mountains and rolling hills, and despite the fact that we have now seen the Andes in almost its entire length, it never ceases to amaze us.There were, thankfully, no hiccups in this journey, and the although the border crossing took a long time, we didn't have to go through the agonising task of openi...

The bus arrived late at night into Puerto Natales in Chile, so we checked into our hostel, Erratic Rock (yes we know the name can be twisted to mean other things) and with hungry eyes we searched for the best pizza place in town... Mesito Grande. It really did turn out to be the best pizza we had ever had and subsequently turned out to be our dinner spot for the few nights we spent in Puerto Natales! Going from speaking Portugese to Spanish had been a struggle o...