We took a LADE flight to El Calafate ( a budget ex argentinian army airline.. it stopped 3 times and took nearly 8 hours!! the flight time with other airlines is about 2 hours but hey we saved some pesos!! You could hear the whole machine buMPING along and the wheels skidding along the tarmac.. not one for nervous flyers! Our hostel in El Calafate was great run by really friendly relaxed argentinians with lots of other argentinians on holidays staying there, ...

What an action packed couple of days we had in Mendoza!! We had lots of fun on the 18 hour bus trip which sounds hard to believe but out beds were fully reclining and so comfortable and we even got a glass of champers at bed time!! we both slept pretty well so arrived ok in mendoza. Mendoza seems to be the capital of really reasonably priced adventure sports and we had one day of rafting on level 4 rapids from the Andes which was the first time either of us had...

We have had a great time in the Salta/Jujuy province in the far north west of Argentina ( close to the Bolvian border). The landscape is so breathtaking.. big country plains and big rockyt mountains full of different colours & cactus. We visited some small indigenous villages Purmamarca ( our fave the most authentic) and stayed in Tilcarda and visited Pucara an acrhelogical site from 10,000 BC indians who lived there. The villages were great, bustling with lo...

We loved Buenos Aires! We were staying in a hostel in San Telmo which is a bohemian district filled with interesting old cafes & bars like El Doringo & El Federal, antique shops and on Sunday all the streets are blocked for a big market with such interesting clothes, handmade jewellry, mate gourds ( we were wishing it was our last stop not our first as there was such cool stuff there but we didn´t have room for anything!!) and so much live music inc...