Our next stop was Santiago (the capital of Chile) so we caught a sleeper bus through the night, which was not quite a hotel bed but definitely an upgrade from trying to sleep on the airplane and the bus conductor walked up the aisle wrapping everyone into their blanket and tucking a pillow behind their head...no goodnight kiss or bedtime story though :(. Santiago was a hot city (Pietermaritzburg hot) but very clean, we spent two days walking around checking out t...

Although the plan (and the ticket) was to take the bus to Puerto Montt, the bus driver stopped 20 min before puerto Montt at a little town called Puerto Varas, so we decided to get off there and find a hostel. The decision was made as we came over the hill towards lake Llanquihue and saw mt Osorno in the distance looming on the far horizon. This volcano is the worlds second most perfectly circular mountain (the first being Fiji in Japan - I think...). This was o...