Arriving here really felt like you`re in the middle of no-where. Added to that there`s the high altitude. Uyuni is 3665m above sea level and headaches were a constant reminder of that. We booked on to a 3day tour of the salt flats and coloured lakes and along with an Ozzie girl, Jack, and a swedish couple Yonas and Virginia and a Yank, Megan, off we went.Now when back in England, going to the Salt Flats was going to be one of the main high lights of our trip. And...

The temperature in Salta was 40 degrees and it didn`t cool down much at night. It was hard to sleep or find the energy to do much in thar heat. We set off further north to Jujuy. A rather non descript dusty and hot town, but worth mentioning because it gives you a real feel of how the average North Argentinian lives. It also has the most indigenous feel and the most indigenous looking people of any other city we`d been too. From here we could easily get to Purm...

After a pit stopfora night in Mendoza we arrived in Salta to 30 degrees heat. Yay! Quite a contrast to what we have been use to. We wondered round town, looking at the colonial churches and buildings then sat by the main plaza sampling the local beer, cleverly named "Salta"! The streets here are quite dusty and the people look more Bolivians than Argeninian, its a real contrast to anywhere else we`ve been in Argie. It was time for Road Trip Numero 2....

Kelly, Jane and our new, non annoying, Israeli friend Sela, hired a car and headed to the lake district. We drove for 5hrs along gravel, bendy roads, full of pot holes.Sela had a giant bag of cookies that he offered to us every half hour, but eventually we stopped by a lake for lunch, whilst it began to snow. Stu befriended some little lambs and personally i think he was secretly trying to catch one to eat later....he really is a good veggie! Many cookies and be...

Our journey back to Argie was far more smooth. We spent 1 more night in El Calafate before catching the 3am bus back to Bariloche - a 32hr journey. And if only it was 32hrs........Not even 1/2 way though the journey we were stopped by another road block. But this was not to be for just a few hours. Oh no! These guys meant business. They were burning tyres and had home-made petrol bombs at the ready. There were only about 30 of them but they were not budging. ...