First of all, the images of Aconcagua I´ve shoved on here are just from google because there were no default photos of Mendoza on the blog website and Ben´s memory card is currently f***ed so we may have lost all our Argentina photos. Sucks! We´re hoping to get it sorted soon somewhere where they know what they´re doing. Anyway so the bus to Mendoza, although 17 odd hours, was an unexpected delight as the seats were massive and leather and reclined loads. Als...

Still reeling from our experiences in Patagonia, we got back to the sun in Buenos Aires and slowly started to regain the feeling in our blue limbs. In BA we stayed in probably the most famous backpacking hostel in Millhouse which as you would expect was rammed with young backpackers on the lash. But in all fairness the facilities were pretty good and luckily we were on the top floor so furthest away from the noise. Also they can organise all your activities as we...

The flight to Argentina actually went back in time in that we arrived earlier than we had left Auckland which was pretty weird. Before the trip we were worried about flying with Aerolinas Argentinas because apparently they are really unreliable and use outdated planes. But the flight was fine, and so was the internal one that took us down to El Calafate in Patagonia, having spent a night in Buenos Aires to break up the journey. Naturally we kept it quiet for that...

After a few promotional videos on the bus of all the activities you could do in Queenstown, we got bombarded with a plethora of clip-boards to put our names on. The Nevis bungy was obviously a definite, and there was the Canyon Swing which we had heard loads about and were considering. It's basically where you swing through a big canyon in a harness after a brief freefall and it's meant to be good because the guys who work there mess with your head loads and you ...

After no doubt some more token little stops on the way to Franz Josef from Lake Mahinapua that I can´t be asked to rake through my brain to remember, we got there and the weather was perfect! Sunny and hardly a cloud in the sky. So it looked as if we were going to get our dream skydive that we´d been holding out for. Then in an unbelievable turn of events, because so many people on the bus wanted to jump, the driver had to pull names out of a hat to see who got...