I awoke all tense, time was slipping away and being trapped for ages didn't help. I had to make a decision on our route in light of the issues in Chile. I checked the forum news that travellers had set up, info here is propaganda free. Good news there had been a deal and the barricades were being removed. The original plan was viable again, it also meant that we could visit Torres de Paine one of the must do's down here. Lots of planning, booking and painful sp...

Welcome to Argentina indeed! We however weren't out of the woods yet, our flights up north and ultimately home were scheduled to go from Punta Arenas in southern Chile (basically epi center of the strike action). With the current situation it is not known whether the flights would be cancelled or if you could even get to the airport. I phoned up BA to figure out the options and when a decision had to be made. There were two options for getting to Beunos Aires for...

Last night we sorted through the rucksack again separating stuff we could leave for the planned walk. Liz wanted to go down to the school before we set off - just in case. I was nervous I knew that the authorities would be blindly giving out promises (and hope) that never became reality. When we got to the relatively quiet school we started to look for someone to give us the news. The Red Cross were no where to be seen, the army seemed to be in charge getting in...

Day two of sitting around at the school with nothing happening. There was a facebook group set up called 'tourists trapped in Southern Patagonia' to detail what was happening. I couldn't find this group and those that had said there was nothing new on there. Them and everyone else went down to the school anyway. The school was even more busy than yesterday. People were still coming from the national park adding to the numbers and as it was wet and cold outside f...

Couldn't sleep kept thinking about what to do about getting away from here. At 3am loads of protesters in cars went past all with their car horns blaring away, they looked in good spirits following the generous offer that they turned down. Some were running around on foot waving the strike flag (a simple black rubbish bag). Most people think that the price rise was the spark after years of being the forgotten state. This part of Chile has no roads connecting it t...