Welcome to Chile

somewhere around the Bolivia, Chile border.


friendly llama comes over to the bus.

national park, just past the chilean customs checkpoint. which was tedious, they scanned every single bag that was on the bus. and made many many people open the bags. seems as though books have the same density as something naughty, they thaught they were onto a big haul with my lonely planet. hehe

valley approaching arica

Arica

sky airlines, saved my ass, literally! found a flight not a lot dearer than the 30 hour bus i was going to take from arica to santiago.

booked the night before, 89 dollars for 4 hour flight with nice meal included (turkey with rice, side salad, fruit salad for dessert, glass of orange juice, and a coffee and a free mint ! ) and no baggage charge. i wonder when ryanair will add a toilet charge.

santiago airport.

chile is quite different to the other countries i have visited so far. it feels almost like europe... only kinda different.

they have a metro

and machines to do the cleaning hehe !

the taxis look a bit like the taxis in Barcelona, Spain.

the currency is "pesos" here , though i like to say that the currency is "mil pesos" (thousand pesos) becuase you find everything costs in the thousands.

im holding 80 thousand pesos in the picture.

thats about 90 euros.