Sooo... 3 weeks in to our trip and I´m finally writing our first blog entry! We´re in south Chile, in a coastal town called Puerto Natales, which is the base for trekking in the Torres del Paine National Park. We hope to go trekking in a couple of days, which will hopefully include visiting some glaciers, but I´ve managed to get ill (already!) so we´re taking some downtime at the moment. We began our trip in Buenos Aires where we spent 5 days exploring the city. We had a great time there, and it was a great way to ease gently into Argentina, as it´s obviously tourist friendly and also quite european-feeling. Our biggest achievement, we felt, was cracking the public buses or "colectivos" as their system was sooo complicated and you have to be a ... read more