Santiago - Chile

We were treated to some beautiful scenery on our final Andes crossing (which we mostly slept through). Santiago is a massive city, but is way better than we expected and its almost a shame we only had 2 days there. We arrived in a pretty cool hostel (La Casa Roja), with a great sushi restaurant just next door and met up with brother and sister duo (Peter and Freya) and a Dutch guy with better english than everyone on the northside!!

We didnt do too much in Santiago, but took a cable car over the city, which provides some spectatular views and provides one the opportunity to travel on a funicular (otherwise known as "trains" by normal people). We also tried our best to round up people for some go karting, but alas only had 2 willing participants, but it was still great craic with the 4 of us even if Robert kicked everyones asses, but an honourable mention must go out to Orla for 2 successes in one day :

1. Winning the women`s go karting race !!

2. Getting a 2-1 in her masters (a far inferior achievement).

In celebration of Orlas multiple achievements, we went to a great restaurant (La Vacha Gordo) for some massive steaks and champers and even though Ronans credit card was declined 3 times, we manage to foot the 40e bill !!!! We then returned so Robert could inflict another defeat upon Ronan, this time in table tennis.

Tonight we fly to Auckland, were 13hours in the air but it takes 2 days!!!!! We hope its as good as South America.