Our longest journey so far. 32 hours with only 1 hour off the bus. Hardcore! However, we took it in our stride and the time passed fairly quickly. The first few hours were spent gazing in awe out of the window at the spectacular views. (Typically the day we left Bariloche the sun was shining and it was clear blue skies). We arrived in Calafate feeling refreshed and very relieved to see the sun was shining here too. The next day we headed to Perito Moreno glacier...

We arrived in the pouring rain and freezing cold. The next day it snowed ALL DAY, -1 degrees and the day after, sleet. Hence the beautiful lakes and mountains we planned to trek were not to be seen. On the up side the hostel was comfortable, clean and had underfloor heating! We spent the days with fellow travellers (mostly Israeli) playing card games and drinking beer. The nights were spent in the sister hostel eating and drinking cheap red wine and playing Taki ...

This is more like it. We awoke eyes wide open on our luxury cama bus coming from Buenos Aires, to the two dimensional snow capped backdrop of the Andes some 100km away. Still completely in awe when we arrived at the bus terminal, we decided to walk through the city to our hostel rather than catch a cab. Mendoza es Bonita. Every road in this low riser grid city is symmetrically lined with Carob trees. Open viaducts run along side them flowing continuously with the...

I have to say we were relatively underwhelmed. As grand and culturally saturated Buenos Aires is, it is not so different to many European cities. However in fairness to BA we only spent two days here and the evenings were spent nursing Caroline´s cold so.... Also Boca juniors were not playing. The highlight however was taking in a Tango show in Boca and wandering it´s multi-coloured corragated ironed houses and photographing Maradona´s imposter. I did ask him...

Wowser!! These make Niagra look like dodgy plumbing. On the border of Brazil and Argentina (and Paraguay) lies Foz do Iguacu. These cataratas magnifico are truely sublime. Words can´t describe the beauty and force nature creates here, so we´ve included a little video footage. Leaving Brazil was sad but we looked forward to new horizons in Argentina, and after yet another night bus we landed in Iguacu, on the Brazilian side. Just a short easy hop across the bor...