Back in Chile preparing for the full cama

Interestingly enough, this is being written in a food court in a mall in Santiago while we sip on Burger King sodas waiting for the 4:50pm showing of Rescate de Metro 123 (The Chilean version of the Taking of Pelham 123) ...... What happened????

Well, we got back into Santiago this morning from Argentina, and are killing some time before our night bus to southern Chile - we knew we wanted to go south for a while, but wasn't sure where - in the end we decided on the lake district region and are heading for Pucon. The only tickets left on the bus were the expensive ones (we couldn't buy tickets in Argentina) so we got those - however, the seats go pretty flat (it's a "full cama" versus our regular "semi-cama" so you can see we have splashed out) - I for one am very curious as to how it is going to feel to be doing 100km in a bus on a freeway at night flat out feet first!!! Another new experience!!

We had a great time in B.A. as we now call it.

Tango show was very good;

Evita museum also good; went to see her grave and many others in the fascinating Recoletta cemetry - we'll post some pictures soon - above ground mausoleums "city of the dead" and lots of old coffins and creepy old statues and the like.

Explored different neighborhoods, and liked San Telmo the best - got to visit there on Sunday morning for the crazy packed market.

We went to a huge city park on the water that was originally landfill for more construction but because of political disagreements, the area ended up going back to nature and so now is this cool urban park full of wildlife. Very nice.

Long bus ride back across Argentina and through the Andes this morning. Took a chance we could actually get bus tickets (which we did - hence the full cama tonight). We have been "treated" to endless movies on the buses - most of them pretty good ones like The Changeling and Doubt, but there have been some real crappy ones and also some possibly decent ones that are completely dubbed in Spanish with random Hollywood stars in them - strange one early this morning with Sally Field! You never know who will crop up next!. Unfortunately we have not yet had the luck of getting one of the buses showing Beverly Hills Chihuahua, so still don't know how that one ended .... did the chihuahuas escape from the underground cavern? Did they get renunited with their owners? Does anyone else care????

OK time for our movie (it's not all nose to the road hard travelling you know!) and then off to Pucon and it's lake and its volcano.
Until next time - with complete "full cama" details.