As you head further North in Argentina, you begin to notice the change in people's faces. No longer European but Andean. A look that will characterise our next two months as we venture through the North of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. The most noticeable physical difference of which is height. Rory's started to look likely he is in Gulivers Travels and at 5,3 I am tall. We thought we looked foreign before. So our first stop to unfold the culture, history and lif...

We have learnt that good weather and a good hostel really makes a place. When we arrived in Cordoba, we had neither. Greeted by rain and clouds, English weather we hoped we had escaped, we set upon finding our hostel which I booked on a whim as it had a great deal on. Now alarm bells should've rang, why do they have a deal on? Well the room looked more like a squatters den, was pretty dirty and the hostel was located on a busy noisy street. What I'm trying to say...

There are places you wait to go on your travels and Mendoza was one of them. Red wine, more specifically the Malbec was the enticing factor. The surrounding area of Mendoza does offer more than wine, hiking (including Aconcagua the highest peak in South America - just below 7000m) , water rafting and horse riding. Our focus though was on the vino tints and to try lots of it. The original plan was to hire bikes to cycle to the numerous vineyards within the regio...

We arrived in Bariloche greeted by architecture more at home in a Swiss alpine resort than the middle of Argentina. We stayed in a hostel called Penthouse 1004, which as the name suggests is a penthouse in a flat block converted into a hostel. It had without doubt the best view from a hostel or even hotel we've ever seen. From the 10th floor (no sky scrapers here) you could see the lakes in all their glory. There was a large terrace where backpackers took in the ...

El Chalten, the main hiking destination in Argentine Patagonia is the gateway to Mount Fitz Roy and Mount Torre, both popular among hikers. It is actually the newes town in Argentina, built only 20 years ago due to border problems with Chile. This has made it basically the Milton Keynes of Argentina but a lot lot nicer. We arrived a bit apprehensive about all this hiking business with zero experience. We were not put at ease with the news of bad weather and stro...