So since Santiago did not have much going for it, and since we had been marooned in the one of the driest places on the planet, we jumped on a bus to the lesser visited beach town of Ritoque on the Pacific coast of Chile. We had seen an amazing hostel right on the cove and thought it would be a great way to spend our last day in SA. We were right. We had our own small house with two pairs of fun Dutch and German travelers coupled with the surfers kind of runnin...

After actually leaving Buenos Aires for the last time we arrived at the Santiago airport and luckily found plane tickets for a two hour ride to the Atacama Desert, a hauntingly magical place of vast, open space and scorching sun by day with bone chilling cold at night. We stepped off the plane on what appeared to be Mars, and arrived after a shaky bus ride through the desert to the old town of San Pedro de Atacama. We walked in the dark to our hostel/house on the...

Two days in Parque National Torres de Paine, Patagonia, Chile. Seven days taken away from us when we were evacuated. Fire. Personally, we are very disappointed since this was to be the highlight of our time in South America. On a larger level, this fire means loss of a national treasure for many years to come, as well as a huge loss to business revenue from tourism (or lack of tourism). Returning to The Singing Lamb hostel and a hot shower was a welcome consolat...

Was it something I ate? Not a question with a definite answer for us, but the resulting stomach turbulence speaks for itself.