DAY 59 - 61: 12th September - 14th September: Salt Flat tour from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile to Uyuni, Bolivia Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers. It is located in southwest of Bolivia, and is elevated 3,656 meters above the sea level. The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average a...

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 ...