Still shattered, we arrive in Santiago! so off I went to our bus company terminal to ask if our 8.40am bus was in Chilean (1 hr ahead) or Argentinian time. I had completely forgotten that we were still in Chile, thy explains the odd look the lady at the counter was giving me!! After a morning coffee (clearly required after my earlier incident) and medilunas (sweet crossaint national favourite here) we made our way to platform 22 for our next bus to Mendoza whic...

5am wakeup in preparation for today's big day. Secretly were all slightly nervous. Layered up in our thermals, boots and flourescent volcano uniforms. After a healthy brekkie, feeling ready for it, we jump into the minibus where we meet the rest of the group. Looks like we are the only girls. It's still dark outside : s Finally enter the National Park and you begin to smell the sulphur. It's not like UK where you get safety talk etc it's get off the van and l...

Any guesses as to where we went for brekkie? Cassis of course! We forgot our phrase book and didn't know the word for bacon, failed acting it out 'oink oink' Reens ended up drawing it on a tissue. Took a while but they eventually understood her cartoon drawings with curly wurly tail. Yay hotsprings day! They had five different rock pools all surrounded by a river and mountains. Literally where in the middle of nowhere. Of course me and Reens ended up in the hott...

After yesterdays late night antics we all woke up late. Apart from the Volcano and activities there isnt much to do in Pucon, so its bice to be able to catch up on some rest abd relaxation! Of course vrunch would be at Cassis, we must be the nost loyal customers. Tanna experienced some funky tasting cheese in her salad, we still cabt figure out what type of cheese it is. Darn it, me and Tanna were drawn into the chocolate displays and ended up buying a whole ne...

Woken up by the sound of heavy rainfall crashing on the cabins rooftop. Oops we kinda slept in till 12! Oh well geared in our waterproofs, it's off to Ecole for brunch and Indian Chai! After spending the previous bight alone in the hostal it was nice to see new guests today; bernard and Renaud from Canada. Seeing as it wouldn't stop raining we decided to take advantage of this and go White water rafting, even convinced the newbies to join us. Rapids on Rio Tran...