After our efforts of yesterday we planned a strictly relaxing day today at the hot springs known as 'Los Pozones'. We didn't need to catch a bus until 13.30 so we had a morning of chilling out. Scott made a yummy breakfast of scrambled egg on toast, and afterwards wrote his blog which gave me an opportunity to nip out and buy a few last minute bday presents for him ready for Sunday and some wrapping paper. I found a brown hoody with 'Pucon- Chile' on it and an em...

It must have been the excitement of our pending trip to the Villarrica Volcano as we didn't sleep well last night. We slowly pried ourselves from bed, packed our day bags and had a bowl of cereal before leaving to get to the tour centre for 6.30am. The weather as promised was glorious, the cloud hadn't broken over the mountains so Villarrica still remained hidden from view. At the tour centre we were given ruck sacks which was full of goodies. We were also given ...

Well we woke to grey skies...the rain didn't seem to have any plans to burn itself out! So we made the sensible decision to stay in bed for another hour. By the time we finally got up at about 9.30ish, the rest of the tourists in the hostel seemed to have all disappeared....obviously keener than us! By late morning the rain seemed to have abated and we could see a glint of blue sky in the distance; so we decided to hire bikes out for a half day. I made us up a p...

We slept pretty well from 11pm onwards until 9am the following morning. The seats we were allocated had more leg room than the previous overnight buses as we were at the rear of the bus. However this meant we could hear everything mechanical. I am not a mechanic, but grinding was the best word to describe the noises coming from the rear axles on the bus. I think this bus was overdue a urgent stop at the workshop. Thankfully I had a good set of ear plugs to block ...

Today we had plans to catch the night bus to Pucon (further south in the area of Chile known as the Lake District) which meant checking out of our hostel room at midday. Since we had the whole day to kill we made the most of a leisurely morning at the hostel, packing up our stuff and Scott spoke to his Mum on skype. I was annoyed at myself all morning as I realised I'd left a small thermos flask somewhere (probably back in La Serena) containing all my larium for ...