I booked this Tour upon arrival in San Pedro de Atacama. The 4am pickup was painful but I did manage to snooze most of the 2hour drive out to El Tatio. Arrival at the geyser field coincided with the rising sun, which was sensational and gave the geysers a spectacular appearance. El Tatio is a […]
My longest bus ride yet – 28 hours from Valparaiso to San Pedro de Atacama. An incredible desert village which feels like it hasn’t progressed for hundreds of years. With a population of just 4800, it is riddled with dirt roads and clay houses (I have not travelled to Mexico yet but I imagine this […]
Santiago, Chile, is a destination I have always wanted to visit. Even as a child I loved finding the country on a map, obsessed with the shape of the country and questioning why Chile was shaped like a chilli pepper yet spelled differently. Upon arrival I was a little disheartened as for the first time […]
I spent the day walking the manicured boulevards lined with palm trees. It’s been fantastic to visit a beach even through the weather hasn’t been great. I can see how popular this must be in the summer. There are many stray dogs in South America but most are harmless and one that I met on the […]
A bustling city of wide, leafy avenues, atmospheric plazas and cosmopolitan cafes, Mendoza is wonderful. I’ve arrived after a long journey and am captivated by the laid-back pace this was the perfect destination to learn Spanish. Yes, that’s right, I’ve signed up to a 1 week intensive Spanish school. I want to engage with locals and have […]