Day 41 So. The last city on our travels. We had a horrible flight from Santiago to Chile it was quite bumpy and the plane quite old at one point we nose dived a bit which caused me (Tom) to sit dead upright and grab the man next to mes arm which was incredibly gay of me but nevermind. So we arrived and got on a bus and walked to the hotel. This was our one bit of independent travelling so we were apprehensive about the hostel but it turned out to be one of the n...

Day 38 We arrived in Santiago after a little bus journey from La Serena. Being used to bus journeys little has now come to mean a mere 7 hours. En route I decided to have a Chilean lunch which was highly recommended to us by the lonely planet guide book and that was a hotdog smothered in sauces. I ordered and then failed to find and sauces and ended up having the sort of thing youd be lucky to get at a football match. Still no matter, I was in a good mood until ...

Day 36 La Serena we got off a 16 hour bus from SPDA and ended up in La Serena, we walked up a little road and got to our hotel where we saw our hotel room. I immediately knew that someone was going to feel (justifiably) the wrath of Sarah as the room was far from nice, there were broken tiles on the floor, writing on the walls and it was generally a bit skanky. However, the woman came to clean and she did for a minute or two before she pointed out that the dirt ...

Day 33 continued And so... We arrived in San Pedro de Atatcama a funny little town right on the border in Chile and on the edge of the Atacama desert. We booked into our hotel where Tom and I received what can only be described as a shed on legs, but a very nice cosy shed. We spent the remainder of the day relaxing and having a look around the town, which it must be said was very touristy and built around this purpose. Day 34 Today was spent exploring th...

Hello everyone. Apologies for the massive delay in updates. We have had rather a busy time and are our now back tracking somewhat to keep this lovely little blog of ours up to date. But i shall start from the salt flats where we last left off. Day 31 The salt flats adventure begins. This morning 3 rather battered looking jeeps turned up at our door where we all stood bleary eyed from our early start. We piled in, sticking to our usual group formation with ...