I'm now in proper South America, where anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. After my comfortable yet long 24 hour bus journey north, we arrived in San Pedro de Atacama, a village in the middle of the Atacama desert. Its about 2 hour away from anything, and our stop off before getting into Bolivia. It has quite a lot going on and is quintessentially a tourist village. We came here to book our excursion to Uyuni in Bolivia. After arrving at our hostel, who to...

Chile at last! Its been a long time coming but I'm finally here. After a nasty flight, and arriving several hours before I flew on the same day, we met up with Matt at our very snazzy hostel and went for a walk up to the Cerra Santa Lucia lookout pont. From here you can see all of the city, or rather as much of the city that isn't full of pollution. Santiago is in a basin and it just traps all of the pollution inside it which is not the most prettiest or healthie...