It is only 5kms to Vina Del Mar and to be honest feels like it is just an extension of the same city. We arrived into Vina in the early afternoon, the lonely planet made one of the museums sound quite interesting so we decided to give it a go - having not been to a museum in a long time! It gave a historical timeline of the different regions of Chile and some other parts of South America - which was interesting but not massively different to other museums I've vi...

Valparaiso is a about 120kms away from Santiago. It’s described as a chilled out town, it is in fact a large city, but quite nice with lots of churches and rickety old lifts (ascensors). Tara and I arrived in on Monday afternoon and went and met Nick and Kirsten. We spent the afternoon wandering around the nice area around cerro conception, we even managed to stop off for a beer en route! In the evening we went out in search of a nice dinner with decent views...

We arrived quite late into Santiago - the border crossing coming from Argentina taking significantly longer than the crossing into Argentina! We had time for a little wander before catching up with some friends in the hostel (Mike who we met in Pucon and Bryan who we met in Mendoza) over a couple of beers. We got up early on Saturday to go collect our tickets for LOLLAPALOOZA, so after breakfast, and a breakfast beer or 2 we headed to the festival. The ticket co...

We arrived into Pucon around 11 having passed into Chile (for the third time for me taking up even more valuable passport space) and went straight to our hostel. The weather was glorious - but we were informed that it was about to change and it would be unlikely we would be able to climb the volcano before Sunday. We made the most of the good weather on Thursday afternoon though and went for a wander and ended up in a nice bar by the beach by lake villarrica! Fr...

I flew from Rio to El Calafate via Buenos Aires, it took most of the day and I arrived into El Calafate late in the afternoon! The scenery as we came into land was strange - it was quite arid - not a lot to see but there was the most amazing green/blue river snaking through! I got to my hostel - I was really keen to trek the W trail in Torres del Paine usually listed as one of the 10 best treks in the world so I looked for some advice from my hostel, the advice w...