Had to wake up early-ish in order to get ready, pack and check out of the hostel by 11.30, once that was all sorted I relaxed in the hostel for a bit, waited for the rest of them to get ready and then we all went out to see off Airien at the bus station, she was going onwards to Orsono for a bit, plus we needed to buy our tickets, the others to Santiago and me to Valparaiso. We saw off Airien on the bus, then enquired about tickets, everything had pretty much been sold out to Valparaiso apart from a couple of camas, very expensive sleeping chairs and some semi-camas, less expensive more luxurious than normal chairs, all of which were no cheaper than $24,000 pesos which was a little more than I would have liked to pay. I made a choice to go back to Santiago with the others for $18,000 on clasico, normal recline-able chairs that are still far better than any bus or coach in the UK. Then from there I would have to get a bus to Valparaiso. The bus was booked for 22.00 so we had to leave the hostel by around 21.00 in order to make it in time. I was a little late because I went and had some fish with Sophia and didn't get to the hostel till 21.10 and I needed to get all my stuff together, we left the hostel at about 21.20 and made it to the bus station through the hectic markets near the bridge by about 21.55 so just made it, not rushed but not comfortably. The bus was okay, not too comfy but would easily do, unfortunately the air conditioning was not working so it got rather too hot to handle. I managed to sleep on and off for about 8 or 9 hours so a fairly good nights sleep I suppose. I was quite uncomfortable because earlier on in the day I had a Mongolian hot dog which was a spiced meat in a hot dog roll with chilli sauce, similar to a completelo but with spicy meat, I think it was this that gave me quite a lot of gas and meant that I had trouble getting comfortable.
Arrived in Santiago around 8ish and I needed to go and sort out my gas problem in the loo, the others waited with my stuff then I came out and said my goodbyes to them all, we loosely arranged to meet up at some point when I am in Santiago myself, for me now I had to go off and get my ticket to Valparaiso, I found one for only $3000 which is pretty cheap, its about the distance from London to Brighton but costs the same as a zone 1 and 2 single on the London underground. The bus was quite a bit more comfortable than that we used to get to Santiago so I accidentally slept some more, I couldn't help myself in the comfort of it all. The bus took about 2 hours to get to Valparaiso, when I arrived I had no idea where to stay so had to go to an internet café to look for hostels online, found one that was cheap and not too far from the bus terminal, it is also a stones throw from the beach. My room has a fantastic view, I'm at the top floor of a three story building and am overlooking a main road but to my left I have the stunning hillside city and to the left I have the beach and harbour.