Although we hadn't gone to bed so late we still were a bit tired in the morning. Our checkout was at 11am though so I got up and started getting ready. When I was ready I went outside to use the internet but it wasn't working. I watched a ted video while I was waiting. The owner Jose also came by and I explained to him that our bus wasn't till the evening and asked if we could stay in the room. He seemed ok with it and I hoped he understood what I meant. After ...

We woke up quite late, it was nice to have nothing to do, and we had both been tired from the previous exertions. We lay in bed for a while while we decided what to do. We had to decide our next stop and as flying to Santiago wasn't going to work, we had to look where to stop in between or face a 22 hour bus journey. I got up and went to use the internet to look at options. I decided that La Serena would be best, as there was the Elqui valley with observatories...

We woke up at 4am, it was still dark and with no electricity we had to get ready by torch light. We quickly got out, although in my haste I forgot my ring. We jumped onto the jeep as it was really cold and set off towards the volcano. It was about an hours drive away along bumpy roads, but we made the ascent in time to see the sun rising over the mountain. At the top there were lots of steaming vents, although the first one we saw was man made with a pipe. It wa...