The bus journey to El Chalten was only 4 hours, when we got there it was really cold but also really sunny so the first thing I did was get my sunglasses out the bag (every opportunity) then proceded to freeze and get wet on the walk to the hostel as I hadn't thought further than the sunglasses and left my coat in the bag even though it was raining and blowing a gale! Some (Casson) might say I had my priorities wrong but I know they're right :-) Even though it w...

About 4 hours before we got to El Calafate everyone had got off the double decker bus we'd been travelling on and we were the only people left upstiars and there were 3 people downstairs. We assumed the position at the front of the bus and just watched the scenery go by. When we got there the only thing we wanted to see was the Glacier so we had a few beers in the afternoon and booked our tickets to go and see it the following morning. It was absolutely amazing...

We decided to break the long journey South into Argentina with a stop in Puerto Madryn to see if we could spot the Orca's beaching themselves in an attempt to kill and eat a baby seal (sounds gruesome doesn't it?) We had 2 days there so we hired a car and on day 1 we went to Punta Tombo which is a huge colony of Magellanic Penguins which you can get up close and personal to. We'd seen some pictures so when we got there I was expecting to walk through 1000's of ...

We got to Buenos Aires after another lengthy bus journey, Casson was on his way into tourist information to see if we could work out how to use the public transport so I thought I'd sit down and wait, unfortunately, I didn't think to take my big backpack off first so as I went to sit down it pulled me over backwards and I ended up like a tortoise on my back, much to Casson's amusement. We'd booked 4 nights in BA but in hindsight that was too long, we really do...

We made our way to the Brazilian side of the falls first thing in the morning armed with a picnic, loads of water and sun cream as it was hot hot hot. When you get there a bus takes you to the start of the viewing point in the park, I was reading some posters whilst on there and there were pictures of animals that looked a little bit like raccoons but the poster was warning you not to feed them as they can attack and also showed a picture of a bloody hand, I poin...