Chili Chico to Puerto Guadal I got up nice and early with my backpack all packed and a smile on my face ready to cycle and explore ALL day. I walked in the sunshine to the cycle hire shop only to find it was still CLOSED! What the? With a heavy heart I went to the tourist info office. Maybe there will be another bike hire place. No. There wasn't. Any tours today? No. GODDAMNIT!!! So there's nothing to do in Chile Chico even when it's not a holiday! Fine...

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...

I've been away a Whole Month! So for my 1 month anniversary I went horse back riding. I booked it at a tiny tour office (Spanish speakers only in here thank you very much), and left with the vague instructions I was to be back there "a las tres" Check me out! That means at 3 o clock. So I did. I sat on the steps from about ten to and waited. It got to about quarter past and I started trying to work out how to say "give me my money back you thieving so and ...

I went straight to Coyhaique from Puerto Chacabuco cos there's nothing there apparently. One of the guys with MILLIONS of luggage from the ferry was going to Coyhaique too and so when the bus chucked us all out, I asked if he needed help as his luggage was a 2 man job! Yes thanks, just across here he said. 20 minutes and 2 aching shoulders later I almost dropped all his plants on the ground with relief! It's a gorgeous wee town. Similar to Puerto Varas. But w...