OK, unfortunately we didn´t make it to Easter Island, but we liked the picture and as we have no camera have run out of pictures to use. After the robbery (maybe over-dramatizing a bit.....the bag snatch), we made it to Santiago, the capital of Chile.  Santiago, in the travel guide, supposedly has a feel of a US or European city.  OK, it is hectic with businessmen and women rushing around, and has a few fast food places, but that´s prob...

We arrived in Mendoza after 30 hours on a bus, for a couple of days of relaxation, good food and nice wine.  Well that was true for the most part. Mendoza is a nice city of about a million people, though still maintains quite a relaxed feel, probably as it´s surrounded by Argentina´s wine region (which produces 70% of Argentina´s wine).  It´s also not far from the Andes and the Chilean border.  The streets are wide and ...

After 32 hours on a bus, we arrived in Puerto Madryn, a city of 70k people near to Peninsular Valdez on Sunday night.  Many welsh people settled here over a century ago, though you wouldn´t think it to look at them, although our tour guide did like suspiciously like Robbie Savage! On Monday we took a 13 hour tour to Peninsular Valdez, which is known for it´s population of Southern Right Whales and Killer Whales, which settle in the bay ...

Ushuaia, is the bottom of the world.  It´s the southernmost city in the world (we have the passport stamp to prove it), although there is a small military town of 2k people called Port William just over the border in Chile.  To get here we had to cross the border again, as Ushuaia is in Argentina, as well as crossing a channel on a boat, as the bottom part of the country is not linked by land.  Ushuaia is a small city of about ...

After crossing the Chilean-Argentine border on the 15th, we arrived in Puerto Natales, a small town of about 20k people a few hours from Parque National Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia, and home of probably the largest burgers we have ever eaten.  They were the size of a plate, with a heap of chips on another plate on the side. We found a nice hostel called Nikos 2 with a nice English-speaking woman, whose dog took a real fancy to Alliso...