Cordillera, Chile
Nigel: Our next journey was from Santiago (Chile) to Mendoza (Argentina). This involved an 8 hour bus journey, crossing the land border between the 2 countries, and passing through one of the biggest mountain ranges in the world, the Andes. We had to ascend for around an hour and our heads started to feel funny due to the altitude and the quickness of the ascend. We were so high, we were passing ski resorts which are used during the winter but were closed when we...