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...

Iguazu Falls!!! Ben and I are both so excited to finally see them, this was one of our must see sights on the trip. Everyone say you should see them from both sides to get the full impact - from the Brazilian side for the overall view and from the Argentinian side for the up close and personal view! We spent one night in Foz de Iquacu on the Brazil side before catching a bus over the border to stay in Puerto Iguazu on the Argentinian side for 2 more nights. From...

Monday 19th - we've been away for a week! No arguments yet and we've decided that silences are good, we can't talk non stop for 8 weeks. Our bus trip to São Paulo was long last night - it ended up taking 8 hours as the route went all through the winding mountain roads. We got to our hostel in Vila Madelena late and today we are flying to Iguazu Falls. Before our flight we visited Batman Ally, which is well known for the amazing and colourful graffiti, then went...