The 12hr overnight bus journey from Mendoza to Buenos Aires was pretty bearable considering. In fact, the only downside was being forced to watch a film whose entire premise involved Jennifer Aniston sleeping with Kevin Costner when he´d already slept with her mother and grandmother too. Nice. And so we arrived fresh as daisies to the hubbub of downtown BA, with not quite any idea where or what to do once making it out of the bus station. After a rather long an...

After four or so days in Santiago we took a seven hour bus over the Chilean Andes to Mendoza in Argentina. We passed some of the local ski resorts on the way, as well as some amazing geology, and as soon as we were over the border the clouds miraculously parted and the sun shone once again. As it turns out, Mendoza is actually a desert, hence the lack of rain. Not that you´d actually be able to tell mind you, the town itself is full of trees and parks, thanks to...