The aim today is to do all my last minute grocery shopping for Rapanui and at the same time go and climb San Cristobal hill seen as I missed doing it yesterday. After some organizing and stuffing around I headed to the city (over an hour on the bus) making it to downtown by just before midday. I headed straight for San Cristobal hill in order to climb it before the heat of the day got too intense; unfortunately the strike was still on and the whole park was close...

I still can't sleep here in Santiago - even with a really nice bed and complete silence at night I wake up on and off all night. As I couldn't sleep I got up at around 5am and spent the morning packing and surfing the Internet. After lunch I made my way to the city to check out the street market and hopefully climb the famous Sant Cristobal hill. On arriving in the city I was met by absolute chaos, people here have become accustomed to how crowded it is and push ...

Today I wanted to check out some hiking stores and I also needed to prepare dinner for Kelly & Vira. In the morning I sat down with Yergus and he gave me a map and a list of places I have to visit in the South of Chile. I decided to cook the dinner in the morning so I could have the rest of the afternoon in the city. I made my trusty and always enjoyed Tortilla Australianus and as there was an oven I used that to bake it as opposed to sly frying it; I also ma...

After about two hours sleep I was up and raring to go; doing my exercises, having a big breakfast and planning my day. Kelly and Vira left by 7am and I waited around for Yergos to awake so I could get some directions from him. I then took the bus into downtown and wondered round very confused and trying to figure out a plan for the day. I decided to to try make the free walking tour that was at 2pm today so whilst waiting I ran around to all the banks trying to d...

After some sleep but a lot of aches and pains the bus attendant came around at 7am opening our blinds and giving us more snack packs. I was lucky this morning and was given two snack packs which consisted of water and a very tasty caramel biscuit. A few more movies were put on but unfortunately all had no sound and were only with Spanish subtitles - although I watched them I am sure I lost a lot in bad translation. We had been promised 5?snacks during the 23 hour...