It’s a long way from Tonga to Santiago de Chile. It is even longer when your connecting flight is delayed by 5 hours. All of this feels even longer when you leave at 2am to begin with. It’s not as bad as it could be, the airport of Auckland is ranked number 1 at Sleeping in Airports 🙂

Anyway, we arrived at 5pm the same day (funnily enough, 31 hours later, thanks to the date line) in Santiago. This by itself is a bit strange but the time zone confusion reaches an even higher level when you try to figure out what time it is at home, even more so when the involved countries have just changed from daylight saving time to standard time or vice versa.

Santiago is not a very remarkable city, though you can find quite good places to eat and go for a drink, visit one of Pablo Neruda’s houses, view lots of graffiti and experience an earth quake (in theory, we didn’t feel it). So after 4 days curing our jet lag we were drawn back to the sea, to Valparaíso.