Once we arrived in Santiago we had to get a tube and then a taxi to our hostel, but we eventually made it and after chilling in the lounge to watch a film, headed off to bed. The next day the weather was pretty gloomy, but as we only had two days in Santiago we wanted to try and make the most of it. So we decided to do a walking tour of the city to see as much as we could and headed off late morning. We didn't make it very far before deciding we should really ...

After leaving Bariloche we headed to Chile via Osorno and then on to Valparaiso, where we stayed for 2 nights. Valparaiso is a small city north of Santiago that is set in hillsides overlooking the harbour below. The city looks very old and run down, but in a quirky, charming sort of way. There is an adundance of graffiti - every corner we turned we would see bright, colourful, imaginative paintings on the sides of buildings. From a distance, the city very muc...