I arrived in Sanitago after my bus ride from Puerto Montt around 9.30am and upon arrival soon discovered there were no buses to San Pedro de Atacama that day because there were floods in the town that had affected the road in and out of town. Instead i booked the last ticket on the 3pm bus the next day and then headed back to Bella Vista hostel again where I arrived around 10.30am. Upon arrival there were 2 things i would have liked, one was a shower, having not ...

When we arrived in Santiago at 10.30pm we thought we had booked the Bellavista hostel where we had stayed 2 nights previously. Unfortunately, Mike was still on NZ time though and had booked us the wrong night, so a small trek across town led us to another hostel where there was room for the 3 of us. We freshened up, went to our favourite restaurant for some cheap food and accidently stumbled into a private party for a spanish school. After a couple of drinks an...

So the landslide somewhat threw away our plans. We were going to arrive at 8pm and spend the evening planning my next move, finalising Harriets travel details and then enjoying a nice meal and having a couple of drinks. The reality was we got in at 2am, got conned by a taxi driver into paying 15pd for a journey that should have cost 5pd and then found that the hostel had no bar, and that the petrol station nearby didn´t serve alcohol after 1am. Sadly, the peach ...