Jet Setters

15 - 16 February 2007
Ushuaia to Punta Arenas

Not much to report on for these days, as these were basically travelling days as we had booked our flight from home from Punta Arenas to Santiago, so we spent yet another 12 hours on a bus from Ushuaia to Punta Arenas. Had dinner at a working mens club with a few new friends and had our first taste of Chilean apertif, Pisco Sour - 2 of these and you are pisc-ed!

We stayed in a dodgy decrepit hostel called The Blue House (unbeknown to us its sister hostel had burnt down 2 weeks before killing about 20 backpackers!) which was filled with Israeli´s, our first "real" backpackers with showers that hardly worked, felt slimy and scummy, and you practically slept on top of your stuff to make sure nothing got stolen!

Spent the following day walking around the "metropolis" of Punta Arenas, sorting out admin and killing time. Also paid our deposit for Inca Trail - if anyone is keen to join us we´re doing it on the 15 March... Flew into Santiago in the afternoon, and then caught the next bus out to Valparaiso, which according to the Lonely Planet is the Chilean equivalent to the French Riveria!