So, I got my first Bolivian bus (another classic experience) from Villazon, on the Bolivian side of the border, having just walked across the border with my rucksack and got stamped on each side with absolutely no drama. I went to Tupiza, which is another starting point for the salar tours. Tupiza turned out to be really beautiful in itself, so I stayed in town a night, then went on a 2 day ride on horseback to explore the area (you can only really go by horse or...

Sorry its been a while - keep trying to update my blog, but the connections here are pretty rubbish and slow, so pictures cause it problems. Since I last wrote, which seems to have been from Mendoza, so much has happened! I left Mendoza with Audrey and went up to Salta. We had a really nice time there, enjoying the town and also went on some excursions into the NW Argentinian countryside around Salta. There are some absolutely beautiful quebradas (gorges) with mu...

Argentine Patagonia I flew from Buenos Aires straight to El Calafate, whcih is in the heart of Argentinian Patagonia and perfectly located for accessing Los Glaciares National Park and all the other major attractions of Patagonia. The flight surprised me, as it took about 3 and a half hours, which seems excessive when you haven´t even travelled the full length of the country - Argentina really is massive! It was clear the second I got off the plane that dow...

Puerto Madryn proved to be a bit of a hit for me - after the cold and the wind in the south it was lovely to arrive at this town on the Atlantic coast, set on the edge of a huge bay where Southern Right whales come for the breeding season between September and November each year. It must be an amazing sight to see the huge whale tails from the town beach, but sadly it wasn´t the right time of year for me to see that... However, I did get extremely lucky in s...

I´ve had a really nice few days, both with socialising and sightseeing (night and day activities in BA - sleep seems to be last priority!). On Saturday I met up with a couple of girls I´d spoken to that afternoon, one of whom has been here in BA for a week before starting on a GAP trip up to Rio. She invited me and Emi (another new friend) out with them and a merry bunch of 7 of us went out to Asia de Cuba, which is such a nice club in the Puerto Made...