A pleasant 24 hour bus trip!

A couple of nights in San Pedro was enough (nice enough town but also dry, hot and dusty) and we hopped on a bus bound for Santiago. Left San Pedro at 2.30pm and arived in Santiago at 1pm this afteroon. The bus trip was pretty reasonable on a big double deck bus with comfortable "semi reclining" seats. I stayed awake until 3am (playing games on the laptop. They had a 110volt inverter within reach of my seat!) and then actually managed to get 6 hours sleep!
The scenery changed as we went south with the barren landforms of the desert at San Pedro becoming less arid with Cactus and then shrubs, trees and even Eucalyptus plantations as we got closer to Santiago.
Arriving at the bus station we took a Taxi the few kilometres to the "Plaza de Armas" and got a room in a hostel on the 6th floor of a building overlooking the square.
Seems like a nice city although the Taxi driver warned us about pick-pockets around the Plaza.

Will stay here a couple of nights then take another bus south.