Chile Chico is closed. The whole town! On October 12th every year there's a holiday. Apparently it's the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, which happened on October 12, 1492. Great. So no tours. No bike hire. Nothing to do at all. I looked on the map to see where the marble caves are. I thought I could hire a bike and cycle there. But it's round the other side of the lake and 7 hours drive away. So maybe not. After speaking...

So what a nightmare trying to get a bus to THIS place! You'd think that going to the bus station and asking for a boleto (ticket. omg i know LOADS!) to whichever place you want would do the job right? Not in this case. No she said. Then proceeded to play charades with me (not very well i hasten to add) chatting away and pointing to a place on my street map where I needed to go instead. I thanked her, got outside then wandered to where she's said. It's a fir...