Good Bye everybody!!!!

Pucon was great, but yet again we had to move on Pronto! So we loaded up the truck for what would be the last free camp for Sam and I. We were headed for Santiago where Sam and I would be leaving Tucan and finding our own way again.

Fittingly our last free camp was in an ugly alotment by a very flashy chilean petrol station. 

Love my hideous argentinean track pants,

We reached Santiago on easter sunday, and unsurprisingly not much was open, however we were able to find a cute cafe and sample the first of many Chilean set lunch menus where you could get three or four courses plus a drink for around Australian $8 and wouldn’t need to eat for the rest of the day. We spent our days hanging out in the city with the rest of the tour guys until it was time for them to move on and us to move out of the hotel where we were hiding out and find ourfeet again.

Goodbye drinks

Goodbyes

 

We stayed in a wicked hostel “Sammy’s Hostel” where you got an awesome breakfast and managed to see the sites around Santiago.

These included the amazing gardens in the city   and the other big park

where you would have had a great view of the city if it wasn’t for the smog.

We also visited the beautiful city of valpraiso, on the coast, about an hour and a half our of santigao. However we forgot to bring our camera, and couldn’t photograph the cobbled streets and colourful terraced houses. It was here that Sam fell in love with one of Pablo Nerudas many whimisically deigned and furnished houses. 

After a week in santiago it was time to board one of those cazy gravity defying machines called aeroplanes and head to Lima.

Lima was not the best introduaction to Peru. The city was bustling, but dirty and there didn’t seem to be a whole lot to do there.

Some of the prettier sites around Lima

However out hostel was great and the owner organised an amazing action packed week for us as we made our way to Arequipa.