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Hola!! South America is awesome! After a rather strange flight from Auckland to Santiago, (strange as in left at 5pm got in at 11am the same day after a 11 hour flight....!) met up with Swills and Bean in our hostel. Got financially raped by a taxi man from the airport as usual, keep telling ourselves to learn a lesson! Hostel was cool, not much going on in Santiago though. Got hammered a few times, one highlight was watching a footy match between Universidad de Chile and someone else. The crowd was absolutely mental, naked blokes mooning police who are hitting fences with bats keeping people back etc... quite different to an English crowd in that where as we abuse the ref and get excited when our team attacks, here they just sing and jump up and down, for 90 minutes, without stopping.... Honestly don´t reckon they care less about the football, just gather for a singsong!

Hola Amigos!!!!

Nick Comer
2006-04-09 14:42:16

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Hola!! South America is awesome! After a rather strange flight from Auckland to Santiago, (strange as in left at 5pm got in at 11am the same day after a 11 hour flight....!) met up with Swills and Bean in our hostel. Got financially raped by a taxi man from the airport as usual, keep telling ourselves to learn a lesson! Hostel was cool, not much going on in Santiago though. Got hammered a few times, one highlight was watching a footy match between Universidad de Chile and someone else. The crowd was absolutely mental, naked blokes mooning police who are hitting fences with bats keeping people back etc... quite different to an English crowd in that where as we abuse the ref and get excited when our team attacks, here they just sing and jump up and down, for 90 minutes, without stopping.... Honestly don´t reckon they care less about the football, just gather for a singsong!

After Santiago we needed to get on an absolute mission! Had our Inca trail booked and needed to travel about 1300 miles to get there. So on to the buses... they are actually very good (most of the time....) , comfy, bring you food and
it is possible to sleep on, quite cheap as well. However, not speaking Spanish has its drawbacks. Apparently if you book a bus from Pullman who have red buses and leave from gate 60 or 66 it actually means you were supposed to get a white bus from another company from gate 62!!! Very confusing! Had a stopover in place called La Serana, can´t really remember much about it, probably quite nice. All in all took us about 30 hours to get to Arica in Northern Chile, which was good fun. From the moment we left til we arrived all we saw was desert. Seriously for 30 hours- just desert.

Booked a bus from a town close to the border to get up to Arequipa in Peru. The ticket guy called us over and we all got in his car which we thought was a bit odd seeing as we booked a bus ticket... he then drove for about ...

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