This morning disappointed by our inability to go sand boarding we had a bit of a lie in and then went into town for a wander. I sorted out some of my photos in an Internet cafe and Browny treated herself to a milkshake. After we went for lunch - chicken lasagne, this was really good and filled us right up before our bus to la serena. We arrived at the bus station, shortly followed by the 3 Irish girls we had made friends with, we seem to be on the same schedule...

In the morning we booked a tour with our hostel to go sandboarding in the afternoon and also booked a stargazing tour for the evening. As the sandboarding tour wasn't due to start til 2pm we went for a wonder into town. First we went to exchange our leftover bolivianos and to take some money out of the bank. Eddy managed to forget both her bank card and her bolivianos! We went for a long walk to the bus station so that we could buy our bus ticket to Santiago the ...

This morning we finished our 3 day tour with an early 5am wake up. The hostel was so cold we hadn't had much sleep at all and were feeling a bit sorry for ourselves! The pancakes and dulce de leche for breakfast certainly brightened up the morning slightly though! We headed off to our first stop which was the geysers, these were cool and there was steam just bursting out of the ground! They smelt quite a bit of bad egg but the bit of warmth gained from standing...