Hello again. We are now in Mendoza - the wine region! Since the last update we stopped in Cafayate and Tucuman, both of which were lovely and I will summarise in this same blog. In Cafayate we hired some bikes and went on a 6km ride in the immense heat to find the River, only to find that when we got to the river bank there was a 2 hour trek to the waterfall (the interesting part). Due to time, and the fact we were already suffering from heat exhaustion, we pas...

It's hard keeping these things up-to-date! We're actually in Cafayate now, about 4 hours out of Salta, but obviously I need to write a bit about Salta. So, we were there for 3 nights to explore the town and chill for a bit between buses. On our first night there we ended up going out for quite a few drinks (till 6am)! We started on the main square with a coffee and were pleasantly surprised when a band came on, that is until they started playing!! Needless to s...

Hello again... This will only be brief as internet connection is pretty slow here in Iguazu! So, after BA (Buenos Aires) we made a stop over at Concepcion del Uruguay for some beach time, which was very HOT, but pleasant doing very little. We spent 3 nights there before heading to Iguazu falls.Concepcion d. Uruguay gave a good look into how the locals live. Basically they shut up shop between 12.30 till around 19.00 and all head down to the beach leaving very l...

Right, well, I suppose I should give this blog thing a go to keep you all updated... Where to start...at the beginning! Well, I arrived in Buenos Aires (BA) on Friday 28th December around 9am BA time, after a long old flight via Atlanta. Luckily everything ran on time and the flight was actually quite pleasant. I was really looking forward to seeing Jim after 4 months and excited about being in another continent (and a warm one at that!) Unfortunately after get...