Sunday 16 September - we found out that breakfasts in Chile are very simple affairs, toast, coffee and cake but when you are only paying $15 per person per night you can't expect full English. After breakfast we ask the Hostel Manager about keeping the bike safe somewhere and we tell him about our trip. He advises us to be extremely careful because it could be dangerous travelling alone. This reminds us of a conversation we had with an Australian girl on our f...

Arrived in Chile safely after an 11 hour flight with nothing to see but sea until we reached the Chilean coast line. Then as the plane banked towards Santiago we had our first sight of the snow capped Andes and these are really impressive. At our arrival at the airport we were hounded by hoards of taxi drivers vying for our business but, ever in search of a bargain, we managed to find a bus to Santiago centre and then a taxi to our Hostel, a distance of around ...