so after having finally managed to sort out a tour (quite difficult as they need a minimum of 2 people and i had no mates!), went for a siesta, but was rudely awakened by an argentinian man storming in really loudly, throwing his valuables on the floor and playing rammstein at top volume. more imressed than disgruntled, i got talking to him, tried to find out what was going on with the protest in the square, but he seemed to think it was a bit of a joke as well, ...

IN. havn't really done much exciting for a week or so cos i took some time off to do some spanish lessons, figured it was probably quite important for when i get captured by columbian guerrillas and have to tell them to go away. so i can speak spanish a bit better now, still cant understand what people are saying half the time though. although a couple of argentinians have told me i speak spanish well, probably lying though. so i finally got to be antisocial for...

had an all round farce trying to find my hostel in mendoza, stupid directions told me 1702 av. san martin, however failed to mention that below 0 then theres another san martin, which doesnt appear on any of the maps. so walked for like an hour to the northern one with my massive unwieldy bags, only to arrive at a sweet shop. not ideal. eventually got a taxi to the hostel which turned out to be at the other end of town, so turned up really hot and grumpy, soon ch...

IN apologies for the recent lack of updates, have just got back from 5 days wandering round in torres del paine national park, not very many internet cafes there, so will try and back date this one and remember what happened in ushuaia. ushuaia is the most southern city in the world and is on the argeninian bit of tierra del fuego, which is the island off the south coast of argentina, but to get there you have to go through chilean territory which means an extre...

arrived in rio gallegos yesterday morning, which is the southernmost proper town on the argentine mainland, just killing time really before we can get to ushuaia. our bus leaves tomorrow morning and theres not really anything to do here, had a 5 hour siesta yesterday! quite good to recharge the batteries before we go hiking off into the wilderness. also we found a really good pizza place, 50 pesos for loads of pizza and beer for 3 people (divide by 6 to get pound...