DAY 55 - 58: 6th September - 12th September - San Pedro de Atacama On the 6th September, I left La Serena on a 15 hours bus journey to the driest desert in the world. The Atacama Desert had not seen rain in over 400 years, although this year it snowed for the first time in 100 years - so it was a special time to be visiting. The town od San Pedro lies at 2,500 meters above sea level, the whole town is geared towards tourism, with its main attraction a trip a...

I left Valparaiso at 10am to head for La Serena it was a long us journey around 8 hours. I arrived in the early afternoon; the hostel I stayed at was the only one you could book through hostel bookers so there were lots of people there. I met a girl from Holland and another guy, we all went to visit the Pisco Valley and visit the production site of pisco, which was very good, although it did take the whole day. On the way back we stopped off at another town cal...

Day 50 - 52: 4th September - 6th September: Valparaiso and Vina de mar I arrived in Valparaiso after a 2 hour bus journey, it was back to hostel life and having to share a dorm. Valparaiso was a little town on the coast of Chile. It was a very important seaport in the country. Valparaiso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest ...

DAY 43 - 49 : 28th August - 3rd September - Santiago I arrived in Santiago at 7am on a Sunday morning and nothing was open. I made my way to the metro station to work out the route to Jeanette house. I was kind of nervous as I was living with this random family, in a random city - I had no idea what to expect. I knocked on the door and was met by a very short woman in her Pjs - Jeanette had not expected me to arrive until 8pm not 8am. She quickly sat me down ...

DAY 38 - 42 : 23rd August - 27th August - Pucon Pucon is situated in the lake district region of Chile, it is a very traditional and small town. The center is situated on a lake with volcanoes either side. On my first day I decided to go canopying (zip lines over rivers and through trees) I though I was going to die - considering all the instructions were in Spanish I was not too confident in my translation, but I made it back alive so that's what really co...