CHILE & ARGENTINA

BEEN HAVING AN AWESOME TIME IN CHILE!! ON MONDAY WE WENT TO THE NATIONAL PARK AND SAW SOME AMAZING WATER-FALLS. TOOK SOME COOL PICS AND VIDS, THAT AFTERNOON WE DROVE UP THE MASSIVE VOLCANO CALLED OSORNA (I THINK THAT'S HOW YOU SPELL IT) IT'S AN EXTINCT VOLCANO THAT ALWAYS BEAUTIFULY SNOW-CAPPED AND DOMINATES THE FANTASTIC LAKE. WE DIDN'T GET TO GO ON THE CHAIR-LIFT AS IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE BUT STILL HAD AN AWESOME TIME.
TUESDAY WE WENT TO CHILOE ISLAND, A CUTE  TOWN SURROUNDED BY BEAUTIFUL FARM-LAND VERY SIMILAR TO N.Z, HAD A NICE LUNCH IN A VERY LOCAL CAFE WHERE A MAN CAME IN PLAYED SOME SPANISH TUNES ON HIS GUITAR FOR TIPS. I HAD A CHEESE EMPANADA BUT THE CHEESE WASN'T VERY NICE AT ALL! WE WENT BACK ON THE FERRY WITH OUR CAR WE HAD RENTED FOR 2 DAYS.
WEDNESDAY WAS OUR LAST DAY, WE HAD AN EARLY START AT 7:30AM (WELL, EARLY FOR US SINCE WE HAD BEEN WAKING AT 9:30AM EVERY DAY LATELY!) AND CAUGHT A BUS TO BARALOCHE IN ARGENTINA! IT WAS A 6 HOUR BUS RIDE BUT IT WAS A NICE BUS AND THE MOVIE GROWN-UPS WAS PLAYING IN SPANISH. HAD THREE STOPS. FIRST WAS A STATION WHERE MEN WERE WALKING AROUND SELLING HOT-DRINKS WITH HOT WATER ON THEI TUMMY, SECOND WAS TO GET OUR PASSPORTS STAMPED AS WE EXITED CHILE AND THIRD WAS TO GET OUR BAGS SCANNED AND PASSPORTS STAMPED AS WE ENTERED ARGENTINA. BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AS WE DROVE THROUGH THE NEVER-ENDING ANDES AND PAST SOME AWESOME LAKES.
IN ARGENTINA WE GOT A TAXI TO THE HOSTEL WE HAD BOOKED ONLINE AND NOT SEEN ANY PICS OF. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING! WOODEN FLOOR BOADS, THIN MATTRESSES, SMELT AND THERE WERE EVEN BLACK HAIRS IN MUM AND DAD'S BED!!!!! EEWW!! GROSS!! WE ESCAPED OUT OF THAT DUMP AND WANDERED THE STREETS LOOKING FOR HOSTELS WITH ALL OUR LUGGAGE FOR 6 MONTHS! WHAT A SIGHT AS WE GOT A FEW WEIRD LOOKS! FOUND ONE GOOD ONE FOR 200 PESOS ($70 N.Z MONEY) NOW STAYING THERE FOR 5 NIGHTS AS WE ARE NOW GOING TO A BBQ AT SOMEONES HOUSE WE MET. HAVING A GREAT TIME AND GOING TO POST MORE PHOTOS SOON!
ADIOS!!