AldenNaeny

We finally arrived in Bariloche, Argentina after about a days worth of travel from Pichilemu, Chile and it is absolutely gorgeoussssss!!!!! Its a city on the hills looking down on Lago Nahuel Huapi which is surrounded by snow capped Andean peaks. The lake is an a amazing blue color that makes you just want to run and jump in it (too bad its too cold). The town was nice, most the buildings looked like log cabins. We stayed at the Hostel Inn (a chain hostel) with the most amazing view of the lake and city. We had a few days here so we went out to lunch often (our breakfast and dinner were included in our hostel rate). I tried a local cuisine, trout, which is supposed to be amazing but I disagree. The second day ... read more

We left La Serena bright and early Sunday morning for a 7 hour bus ride to Valparaiso. However, like our recent weekly pattern of travel struggles we came across another unexpected stop. The buses in Chile stop half way through your ride to check everybody´s luggage for fruits, vegetables, drugs, weapons, etc which is annoying but usually does not take too long. Unless you are on the bus that is carrying SIX suitcases filled with drugs. We have no idea what the story is but when our bus was stopped they had the drug dogs come sniff everything out. Everybody passed without a problem but when they opened up underneath the bus the dogs went crazy on a few of the bags. After 3 some hours of the Chilean Police checking everybody´s bus tickets (their process ... read more

We have finally made it into Chile! However, since my last post we´ve had a few extra obstacles to overcome than expected. We left Cusco last Sunday night for an overnight bus ride to Arequipa. We arrived at our hostel, Wild Rover, an Irish run hostel, around 11am which gave us the day to explore. The city was very busy and nothing too special, however back at the hostel everybody we talked to seemed to have loved Arequipa. We had to leave early the next morning for our next stop, so we will never know what was so amazing about the city of Arequipa. We woke up early the next morning for our bus to take us to Tacna, which is the lowest city of Peru and its before you cross the border into Chile. As ... read more