After our volcano adventure, we still found some great things to do in Pucon, including a walk through the national park where we climbed around 700 metres to some stunning lakes, and an afternoon in natural hot springs where we soaked our aching bodies after the intense workout from the last few days. We took the night bus to Valparaiso, which is on the coast, about 2 hours west from Santiago. It is a port town built in to the hill side, with steep roads, lots ...

After a normal life in BA, we were now heading south trying to get to El Calafate for Christmas and Bariloche for New Year. We took a 5 hour bus down to Mar Del Plata for a few days surfing and then took a 17 hour bus down to Puerto Madryn to spend a day on Penninsula valdes where we saw Sea Lions, Elephant Seals, Pengiuns, Rheas (Ostrich like birds) and Armadillos! However, we had just missed whale season and had no luck with the Orcas either. My snake-man adve...

While winter is arriving in both Holland and the UK, and Christmas is on its way, we are enjoying sun, beach, very nice temperatures and some surf. It is hard to believe that it´s nearly Christmas, as we don´t see much of it in the streets and it is not celebrated that big over here. We hope to spend our Christmas in El Calafate, which is the most southern place we´re gonna go in Argentina, and where the temperatures might be a little closer to the usual aroun...

We had heard about this park where you could see some pretty different creatures, so we decided to try and get there. However, there was no direct route, so we took an 11hr night bus to Corrientes and then had 20 mins to buy a ticket to Mecedes, which we just made! Another 4hrs in the bus and we were there. In Mecedes we had to wait for a few hours for a bus to the national park, which was another 2.5 hrs away. However, when our bus arrived we knew this was goin...