Back in Santiago for a few days before heading on the Pachamama bus north to San Pedro de Atacama. From there I will then be heading to Bolivia and then onto Peru for the Inca Trail on the 28th.
The southern trip was enjoyable, and I am glad that I took the opertunity to jump off the bus in Pucon and Puerto Varas, though it is a shame that the bus was only twice weekly as the time spent off the bus was more than enough, and had there been some more buses I would also have liked to stop off in Valdivia for more than the afternoon that we had there. Whilst in Puerto Varas a group of us that had jumped off the bus hired a car and went to visit the island of chiloe for a couple of days, and I had my first experience of driving on the wrong side of the road, in fact the first experience in a car since my test, though I only drove on the extremely quiet dirt roads.