After helping ourselves to one of the prepared meat and cheese plates in the small fridge of the La Base Hostel common room, we strapped…

We caught the 7:30am Cootra bus from El Calafate and after the border crossings (delayed because, despite the giant signs and verbal warnings people were…

There were two possibilities for stops before we hit the tip of South America (Ushuaia): El Chaltan and El Calafate. We decided to skip El…

We boarded the 12:30pm Marga Taqsa bus at the Bariloche terminal for the “12” hour trip to Los Antiguos and immediately there was confusion. After…

The bus that was included as the last leg of our Andes crossing dropped us a few blocks from Hotel Plaza where we checked into…

It was about a 5 hour bus trip on JAC from Pucón to Puerto Varas. There were two main reasons we visited this lake resort…

Returning to Santiago from Easter Island, we’d booked a couple of nights in an “American” hotel (Ibis) near the bus station because: we had a…

We arranged an early taxi (18k CHP) from La Casona Hostel to the Santiago airport for our flight to Easter Island. Late in arranging our…

Santiago airport is a mess; the short 2 hour flight from Antofagasta was also about as long as it took to bus us to the…

Heading south on a Pullman bus along the dry coast, we made the 6.5 hour journey to Antofagasta. There was not really a whole lot…