Puerto Natales is the starting town for trekkers before they depart to Torres Del Paine. Torres Del Paine is one of South Americas best national parks. Full of green lakes, snow capped mountains and glaciers you can see it all by foot in only 4 days. So we decided to do the W trek.We started early at the hostel with a great breakfast and then a 3 hour bus transfer to the park. We had to take a ferry the other side of a lake where the trek began. It was cold and w...

We got to Auckland airport early and check in took ages, they even tried to say that I needed a visa for Chile. It was getting very close to boarding time so we just had to talk ourselves out of it and it worked. We finally got to the gate with about 15 mins to spare. The plane was full and there was heaps of screaming kids. There was one baby just behind us that screamed pretty much the whole way. I thought and kind of hoped it would pass out so I could get some...

After finally arriving in Pucon after a 12 hour night bus trip which was one of my worst we went to the hostel where we had booked. Over the last few months we had visited a few pharmacies because I was having trouble with dry skin mainly around my eyes. We must have visited and got about 10 different creams from 4 countries and I thought I'd give it one last try and went to the chemist at the petrol station across the road from the hostel(not as dodgey as it...

After New years we came back to Santiago where we tried couch surfing (where you sign up to a website and fellow travellers take you in for a couple of nights) in Santiago which was pretty interesting. The first guy was really nice we had our own room and bathroom which was better than the hostel. This place was close to the embassies and Lucio (the host) was a great translator. The first night he drove us around Santiago showing us the local sites. We finished a...

We caught the 1 hour bus from Santiago to Vina Del Mar on the 30th to spend New Years on the coast. They say that Valparaiso (the next town along) has the biggest fireworks display in South America and an awesome street party for new years so we were quite keen to check it out. After we checked into our hostel we went for a bit of a wander around. It was quite a nice place and you could feel a real buzz leading up to new years. Rich and Dan came and met us and we...