We arrived late evening in Mar del Plata, jumped into a cab and checked straight into a hostel. After a nice lie in and brekkie, we walked along the seafront towards the city centre. Fortunately the weather was gorgeous and it was nice to be by the sea again! The city was pretty with a few nice plazas, some nice cafes and plenty of shops. That evening we cooked in and had an early night. The next morning we caught a bus to the pier, where you could walk thro...

We arrived in Tapalque ridiculously early in the morning, and because it is such a small town, the bus terminal was completely deserted! Fortunately there was one guy there who spoke a tiny bit of English. He called Tapalque police who arrived in a 4x4 to take us to a nearby petrol station which had a few huts next door with double ensuite rooms inside!! We crashed in one of them to catch up on some sleep and woke up to a phone call from David, the owner of La...

From Salta we had originally planned to either cross the border into northen Chile or go back up into Bolivia again. However, we had heard from a lot of people that Chile was really expensive and if we went back up to Bolivia then we would have a lot of travelling to do to get back down to Santiago for the end of September. So eventually we decided we would head back down south in Argentina and make our way to the top of Patagonia, then cross into Chile for the l...

We arrived in Salta from Tucaman and headed to a hostel we had booked online called Hostal Del Centro. It was rated best in Salta with 90% so we knew we couldn`t go wrong! After checking in to our room and dropping off our bags we headed to the supermarket to get some lunch. Whilst eating lunch in the patio we met a couple, Heidi and Anna who we automatically hit it off with. They, like us were travelling around the world and were at the end of their trip, headin...

After a brilliant week in BA we left on the Friday lunchtime to head up to Tucuman. It was another overnight bus which arrived very early Saturday morning. We checked into a cute hostel, then went for a walk around the town while waiting for our room to be cleaned. After a long internet session and some brekkie, we had a nice shower and headed to the supermarket to buy lunch and dinner. Having eaten out for most of the time Steve and Elle were with us we deci...