Bad start to our stay in Mendoza. The 17 hour bus journey was actually pretty comfortable (although the food was practically inedible - bread and more bread!) but about an hour after getting to our hostel Ben realised he'd left his iPad on the bus...and it's been pouring with rain all day so not a great day. Spent half of it trying to get the iPad back (no chance) and then things took a turn for the better over dinner as we found Cordillera Vinos y Fuego. An amaz...

We arrived in Bariloche to clear skies and sunshine on Friday 30th Oct and the weather stayed perfect all weekend. As we've been staying in hostels for over 2 weeks we decided to treat ourselves by staying somewhere nice for the weekend so we have booked a junior suite as the Design Studios which includes lake views and a hot tub in our room - it's awesome! Saturday was the rugby World Cup final between NZ and Australia which we were going to try and watch in to...

The bus journey from El Calafate to El Chalten is 3 hours north. The landscape is typical Patagonia - vast Estancia's (ranches) as far as you can see leading to snowy mountains in the distance. This mountain range or ice field has numerous glaciers, PM was just one but you can see others between the mountains in the distance. El Chalten is the trekking capital of Patagonia and is located in a national park so before being dropped in the bus terminal we were taken...

We said goodbye to BA and boarded a flight on Monday 26th October 3hrs south to El Calafate. This is our first taste of Patagonia! You can go much further south but on our limited timeframe we decided a few days in mid-Patagonia would have to do, hopefully we'll come back one day and do Torres del Pines and Ushaiai. Our drive from the airport to El Calafate gave us the first glimpse of the landscape down here - it is vast and mostly flat until it reaches the mo...

We arrive in Buenos Aires at 11am on Thursday 22nd Oct. It's sunny but much colder than Iguazu! We'll be here for a few days so we have booked a studio apartment in Palermo which is supposed to be the coolest part of town to stay in. Buenos Aires is home to the tango, the Boca juniors, Evita and some of the best steak houses in Argentina. We wanted to get to know the city a bit so we went on two free walking tours, at 5pm Friday and 11am Saturday. We learnt abou...