Category: Chile

Laura: We got up early, had breakfast and headed to the bus station. Unfortunately for us, we went to the wrong one so we jumped back on the tube to get to the right place. On arrival we bought our tickets, jumped on the next bus and two hours later we were in Valparaiso. Valparaiso is considered the cultural capital of Chile and it’s easy to see why. The entire town is a Unesco World Heritage site and it’s a photographer’s paradise. The buildings are built into the hills surrounding the coastline and all the houses are painted bright colours. Continue Reading →

Laura: Ahmad found super cheap flights to Santiago (£112 each with 20kg baggage) so we headed to the airport feeling good about the fact that this journey would take 5 hours instead of the mammoth 50 hours on a bus! We arrived around 10pm and found a minibus service to take us directly to our hostel. As we were gringos we were the last people left in the van and although the driver had taken great care to drop the locals off on their doorsteps, he wanted to dump us at the end of the road at night in a Continue Reading →

Ahmad: After an early breakfast we headed to the bus station to get to Punta Arenas (the early starts are starting to kill me, though it’s worrying that an early start for me now is about the same time as I used to wake up to head to work). We had paid 100 Argentine Peso’s (£15) to get to Puerto Natales, where we would get a connecting bus to Punta Arenas. At this price I was expecting a bus akin to the (in)famous chicken buses of Africa. We were pleasantly surprised that it was comfortable bus and we were on Continue Reading →