Yes we have arrived. So many mixed thoughts are running around our heads at the moment. We have had such a lovely meal and evening walking around the city of Santiago at night that it has helped our first impressions which wern't so good. Everyone has been really friendly and it feels quite safe, even more so at night time because so many famili...

Ok... So finally I have gotten around to writing my first entry!! yay!! I have now been in Chile for 5 days and I´m having a ball, we both are! After a crazy 36 hours of travelling I arrived into Santiago airport at 9am on Saturday the 1st of Dec! I expected the airport ot be crazy but it was very modern and and easy to navigate! After waiting i...

List No. 1 LESSONS LEARNED IN SOUTH AMERICA: 1. There's a good reason alot of people are travelling on their own. 2. Never trust a Bolivian bus company. They lie all the time 3. When it starts to rain in Costa Rica, get a deck of cards and a slab of beer; it's not going to stop for a while 4. Always expect the worst from a bus journey; unless it...

We had a cooked breakfast and shot off to the Train station by 10am. Unfortunately the only bus we could find was an express at 2:30pm so am waiting for that to take us in 5.5 hours to Santiago. I have left the trip for 2 days so I can get a few more days in Santiago checking out the sights. Hopefully get down to Val Paraiso as well. La Serena i...

To conclude our S. America trip we had 2 days in Santiago. After the nightmare journey from Bolivia, we decided to step things up a bit and go premium class. The 24 hour jouney was actually quite relaxing with fully flat beds! Santiago, another really great city. Lots of bars, shopping and great restaurants. Goodbye S. America!

Hey hey! So I flew into Santiago a few days ago and the route into land was the most amazing view I have ever seen out of an airplane window! Coming in across the Andes where all you could see for miles and miles were these spectacular snow specacled peaks jutting up into the air. It was a long haul flight from Barcelona to Madrid and then onto ...

So I thought I´d write about my current thoughts, feelings and observations living in Chile thus far. To begin I´ll describe the family I´m living with. Recently I´ve been debating whether or not I should move in with another Chilean family because right now I feel like I´m just renting a room and am not really incorporated in the life of a "fam...

Simon: Having done the border crossing into the very north of Chile we knew we would be now able to save many a pretty peso on an internal flight, the departure tax alone for an international being a hefty $34. So it was off to Santiago, the 5th biggest city in South America 3 times the size of Paris, but with a fortunately vastly reduced French...

arrived in Santiago. spent three days walking around exploring the city, feeling quite jetlagged and a bit overwhelmed... took the overnight train to temuco in the south, then onto villarrica in the lakes district. This is a beautiful town which is located on one side of a huge lake and has a snow'capped volcano towering over it. so, next stop w...

After an uneventful three days in Mendoza, a city known for its university and it´s wineries, I caught a bus to Santiago de Chile. The stop in Mendoza was memorable for the facts that it was Steve´s last stop with me and it was my last stop in Argentina. So, although the distance is not too far to Santiago, but the Andes and a two hour stop at t...