Crossing the border into Chile

We were all on the truck for 4am.  It was still pitch black, and we were all very cold and tired.  Others slept, but, as usual, we couldn't!  Ownce the sun had risen, we could see that we were driving through an incredibly beautiful rocky landscape with volcanoes all around.

The hotel had given us a packed breakfast of a banana, a cheese and ham roll, a small piece of banana bread, and a carton of juice.  We had to make sure we had eaten or disposed of all of this before the border because we couldn't take fresh stuff into Chile. 

We reached the Bolivian border at 7.45am, so we were in the queue for when it opened at 8.  While we waited, we stood in the sunshine to get warm and watched a smoking volcano!

Exiting Bolivia was a quick and painless process, and we were soon driving to the Chilean immigration point.  There, we had to take all of our luggage off the truck to be checked.  This took some time, but we were all through and back on the road by 10.15am, the quickest border crossing so far.

Once we were in Chile, we drove across flat, arid plains surrounded by volcanoes.  It was stunning!Read more