I don´t know if I´m just getting used to sleeping on overnight busesbut the bus to Mendoza was my best sleep yet. It was an Andes Mar busand more expensive than most - about 140aud each but worth it for thehuge cama beds that almost go flat and better food. It evening arrivedon time. We got to Hostel Alamo to bo told they double booked the room and they´d moveus to an apartment 5 blocks away but we wanted to stay at the hostel for variousreasons and then they ...

Lonely Planet sells El Bolson as a hippy, artistic town that is very environmentally aware. But when we arrived we didn´t get that impression at all, and it didn´t really come to us later either. A two hour bus ride from Bariloche, we got out of the bus in the middle of nowhere and walked to our hostel which was 4km out of town. El Pueblito had been recommended to us by our last hostel plus it seemed to be the only one you could book online that had private b...

We didn't think it was possible but the buses to Bariloche were even better than Peru. But maybe it is because they serve vino, whiskey and champagne! The buses in Brazil and Argentina don't have the strict safet regulations as Peru. In Peru we were videotaped, had to show our passports several times, had our bags checked and were scanned for guns and knives. Here is is just walk straight on. Just as Brazil was about the capirinhas, Arge...

Michael has a weird habit of having accidents on planes involving orange juice and the flight to Buenos Aires was another example. On the way to South America, he knocked a full cup all over himself when the flight attendant was handing it to him (much to her disgust as it also landed on her) and on the way to Buenos Aires he struck again - this time a partly open bottle leaked all through his bag. To make it worse he then reached into his pocket and he´d been s...