On the 2nd of September, after a day spent relaxing in El Calafate, we took a 6 hour bus back across to the Chilean side of Patagonia. The bus headed high up into an alpine landscape blanketed with snow before descending back down into the vast windswept plains that we had become accustomed to seeing but were nonetheless still in awe of. Around 2pm we arrived in the small town of Puerto Natales nestled between rolling hills and the opening of the 'Última Esperan...

Having perked ourselves up with an extravagant purchase on 3 nights at a luxury hotel for our final days of our travel in Brazil 6 weeks later, we dragged ourselves out of bed, grabbed some lunch and boarded a 23 hour bus journey from San Pedro de Atacama down to Santiago; covering over a third of the length of the longest country in the world! With Trevor still feeling a little under the weather, for the first time ever Sophie got to have his free snacks on the ...