Santiago

After another overnight bus journey we got to Santiago. Found ourselves a nice hostel with a POOL no-less, although we were too chicken to go in because it was cold.
Santiago´s a pretty nice city, although it´s really smoggy at times. We think we liked it better than Buenos Aires, although maybe that´s cos nobody tried to mug us this time!



We also got to meet up with Anna (from Uni) which was cool, and we met some of her Chilean friends who are really nice too (and were nice enough to speak in English to us). They took us to a bar to see a friend´s band, and we tried our hardest to look like locals, although that never works very well.



After Santiago we went to a nearby city called Valparaiso. It´s a really crazy sort of town, with mulitcoloured houses built on winding streets all over the hillside. There are old elevators all over the place too that take you up between the houses. It´s a world heritage site, and was pretty cool, if not a bit decrepid. Unfortunately the photos aren´t great cos it was a pretty cloudy day.



Back in Argentina AGAIN now, in Mendoza this time - which is wine country. Investigating doing a wine tour by bike, which could either be huge fun, or a big mistake - we´ll let you know which!