And so the time has come for us to say farewell to Argentina... We´re boarding an early bus in the morning making a slight detour into the north of Chile before we cross the border into Bolivia and will defintely be sad to leave the country we´ve spent a month getting to know. The last couple of days in Salta have been nice and relaxing after the panic of trying to leave Mendoza. The city itself is very picturesque with some beautiful churches and squares and ...

After a great, but wet birthday, it was back on the cama bus for yet another 18 hour journey up to Mendoza (by this point I hope you have realised how MASSIVE Argentina is!), home of the famous Argentine Malbec and producer of over two thirds of all Argentine wine. Arriving in any city at 8am and not being able to check into your room until 2pm is never great, but add to that the fact that it was Good Friday and nothing was open and we were left with nothing t...

After a fab few days we were quite sad to be leaving El Pueblito and El Bolson but we had managed to persuade quite a few of our friends there to come and join us in Barilcoche so a group of us set off on the bus and arrived at our new pentouse hostel on the 10th floor of a large commercial building in the centre of town. Bariloche is next to a huge lake and the hostel had a terrace overlooking the lake and mountains beyond; a view that we were also lucky enough ...

More than 24 hours over two days on a bus travelling up alongside the Andes on the bone rattling, mostly unpaved ruta 40 bought us to our next destination, the hippy town of El Bolson. On the recommendation of Josh and Zoe we headed for a little hostel called El Pueblito, 4km outside of town. To my credit I (Jamie) managed to speak to our coach driver in Spanish and have him drop us at the hostel door. Unfortunately, it wasn´t quite that simple. After 20mins ...

After a short two hour bus ride up route 40 we arrived in our next destination, the small mountain town of El Chalten. Born in 1985, after a race with Chile to claim the land, the actual town is little more than one main street and some dusty roads, but it is set in the most amazing location, surrounded by mountains and snowy peaks on all sides with a river running through the middle. During our time in El Chalten we walked, climbed and scrambled up various mo...