It´s not so simple getting to the "fin del mundo" (end of the world). Our 20 hour bus journey to Ushuaia ended up being extended to 24 hours as we had border crossings in & out of Chile, plus a short ferry trip across rough seas to get to Tierra del Fuego. But we finally made it to this quaint little port town at 3:30am, and being Argentina, the streets were filled with party goers on their way home and the sun was just coming up.After a couple of ...

We crossed back to Argentina and headed to El Calafate, a pretty town set on the edge of a lake with snow-capped mountains in the background. Our second night there had us sampling more yummy red wine, followed by salsa dancing with the locals until 4am. Neither of us know how to salsa, but they don´t take no for an answer, so we just shuffled our feet and got lead around the crowded dance floor. The highlight of our stay was a day trip to the amazing Glaciar Pe...

So we crossed over the border to Argentina from Bolivia and it was like going to a different continent. It was the first time we had seen a proper supermarket in months and the idea of good coffee was very exciting to us. We travelled down through Salta and Cafayate to beautiful Mendoza, the wine region in Argentina. It is like someone took all the beautiful people and aspects of Europe and dropped them into South America. And I am telling you the men and women h...