Climates Chilian!

Believe it or not since my last post weve now arrived in our newest country, the land of Chile, however heres a bit f a round-up of our antics following my last blog...

25th: Departed La Paz on an overnight bus to Potosi.

26th: Potosi, small town infamous for its silver mines (no mines mind, the workers dont do weekends)

27th: Bus ride to Sucre, Bolivias capital... how its a capital compared to La Paz i will never know, its small tiny, and no where near the city la Paz is but hey, this is Bolivia!

28th: Returned to Potosi, weekend gone it was off to explore the silver mines where we discovered numerous toiling miners, zinc, fool´s gold and the joys of playing with explosive substances!

29th: Left Potosi for Uyuni, after our bus broke down three times along the journey we arrived into a cold and dark post-apocolyptic town of nothingness ahead of our journey unto the Bolivian salt flats.

30th: Wandered Uyuni, stocked up on warm clothing ahead of the freezing nights and played amongst the corpses of decomposing trains at the out of town train cemetary.

31st: Uyunian Salt flats day 1- Salt museum? Salt hotel?? Salt flats, a vast expanse of white nothingness... Great fun for taking comical photographs, but not so much fun for the eyes. Spent the night in San juan, the smallest town known to man.

August 1st: Bolivian Salt flats day 2 - Alien landscapes, visits to volcanoes, flocks of Flamingos, rocks that look like trees, red lakes and the coldest night imaginable.

2nd: 5am start, gushing guisers, and a fantastic morning dip in a hot spring was alost worth the agro from our childish driver... Lucky we parted ways at the Chilean border point.

Since arriving in Chile however there has been a drastic and heavily noticeable difference Bolivian and Chillian cultures... Most of all being the paved and smooth roads that welcomed us into the country followed by the extremely polite and friendly Chillean people themselves.

After arriving in the quaint little typical S.American esque town of San Pedro we spent the day before departing on a gruelling 24hour plus bus ride to Santiago at 7.30pm, not arriving at our destination until gone 8pm the next day, smooth going thanks to impecable roads, but hell due to its duration. santaigo on the other hand is a perculiar city, we arrived a little tired but have found, so far that it is a city full of prospect and is rather like something you would expect to find travelling around Europe, not south america. (Its kind of like singapore mixed with switzerland with its modern and crisp architecture and its mountainous backdrop).

Yesterday being the 5th was a bit of a break from the norm as the four of us took a trip up and off to the Andean mountain range to the resort of valley Nevada for a day full of skiing and snow, and yet despite my distinct lack f expertise atop a set of skii´s still managed to hold my own against the other proffesionals darting about... Even when attemoting a jump as i reached its peak my skii´s took flight and i rolled back to its base of soft thigh high snow!

now however it is with my sunburnt face that i must say farewell for now as shorly wee off to go explore the remains of santaigo and decide what to do for the rest of the day!
Adios mi amigos!
Danny!
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