Today me and Bridget went looking for the Tur-Bus office to book my bus trip to Cusco. We got the metro to the bus station, a schoolgirl was staring at me and eventually piped up with "Tienes los ojos lindos" which means you have beautiful eyes. I just said thanks and got off at my stop. The bus station was really busy and disorientating..yeah we got lost and couldn't find each other. I found the righ office and bought my ticket. However there is no direct servic...

We got up early as usual and set off for Saltos del Lajo waterfall. Bridget's lasagne had an effect on everyone's stomach and so we had to stop at a nearby service station. There was queueing at the toilet, thanks Bridget. It wasn't pretty. We eventually reached the waterfall which was nice but when you've been to Niagara Falls it's not so spell-binding. Nick urged me to run with him into the spray and I did for some reason; completely soaking myself. ...

We all got up early and drove to another nearby German settlement. We left Daniel in Puerto Varas (not intentionally, he'd had enough of us) he was 30 and a man of few words. One of these guys who answers every question in a monosylabic yes or no. He was exceptionally skinny and didn't eat very much. Yeah glad to be rid of him, he wasn't contributing to the tour; his banter was non-existent. We then drove for hours in our dodgy tour bus which finally broke ...

Hi! So today we all had a lie-in until 9ish, had breakfast and hopped on our bus to Puerto Montt. This is a large city in the south that has amazing views of 2 volcanoes and also the country's biggest fish market. We arrived and to be honest, my first impression of the city was run-down, industrial and pretty ugly. The Chilean equivalent of Greenock. The city's economy is based on fishing so there are tonnes of seafood restaurants down by the docks. There w...

We got up early again! I need a lie-in!! We drove to the nearby Pangupulli Lake and walked along the lake shoreline. We then drove further south until we reached the historic city of Valdivia. We wandered into the busy, fish market and looked at the amazing range of fish and shellfish available. There were huge sealions eating all the fish guts that the fishmongers were throwing out. Therewere also Mapuche earrings and necklaces for sale. We checked into our...