My First Odyssey

The original plan was to spend 2 days only in Santiago and then go back to Argentina. The main reason for this is money. Chile is about as expensive as America and pretty much English prices. It nearly killed me to be spending all that money after 3 months of being a South American and spending very little money! I needed to go to Santiago in order to change my flight ticket so that i could have longer in South America and actually do some volunteer work.
I arrived in Santiago at about 10pm and was utterly disorganised as usual so had no idea where to go and find a hostel. Imagine someone turning up at Victoria bus station at night not knowing where they were going in London! Luckily i met some English guys on the bus and they insisted on helping me find a hostel. They knew of a really good one so off we trundled. To my suprise and i would say luck as well the hostel that the guys showed me too was brilliant.
I stayed in Santiago for about 4 days, just hanging out and walking around the city. It was a really good 4 days of chilling but i felt like the money was coming out of my bank faster than it has done before.
While in Chile, i rented a car with people who were from my hostel and we drove down to Viña Del Mar, on the coast. In the summer months this is the Chilean beach to be on, but as it was nearly winter there was no swimming in the Pacific for us sadly. Very beautiful views though, so it was worth it.
All in all Chile was expensive and Santiago was just a big city with loads of evil dogs! Chile has helped me realise though that it is not necessarily the place but the people that makes things special!