Santiago Arrived safe and sound on the Wednesday 31st Sept way warmer than expected it must have been about 20 degrees yyyeeahhhhaaaa. It is really cool having the snow-capped Andes towering over the town, you can pretty much see them from everywhere, can wait to get closer. The town itself is pretty dirty and very smoggy but the hostel we are staying at, La Casa Rojer is great.( http://www.lacasaroja.cl/ ) Really big and clean - huge rooms, large common areas and awesome outside garden and pool area with bar. Hola Chile! After getting cleaned up we ventured out for a walk around town, made our way to the two markets, Central Market (meat etc) and La Vega (fruit and veg) pretty cool, not the gourmet stuff you get in the coolers at home, but fresh from
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