We are now in El Calafate, 80 kilometres from the most spectacular thing we have seen on this trip, and quite possibly in my entire life, the Perito Moreno Glacier. We went there on a tour yesterday and unlike the Martial Glacier in Ushuaia, this is exactly what I thought a glacier would be like.....miles and miles of the palest blue ice towering 60 metres above a milky turquoise lake.....absolutely exquisite. I won't try to describe it too much else I'll go on...

Hello from the frozen South! We are now in Ushuaia, in the Tierra del Fuego, and just 1100km from Antartica! And you can tell actually, because despite being summer it is really very cold! Partly because its we're not here very long, and partly because its too cold to stand around, we have been very busy since we got here! We got here on Saturday afternoon, and after our long flight down from Santiago were really too tired to do much, so we organised ou...

Hello again from beautiful Buenos Aires! I think its safe to say we're all fairly taken with this city, we're having a very lovely time here! As our little hop skip and a jump over to Uruguay was cancelled we're taking our time to do everything here and staying very laid back about it all - very "Porteño" (person from BA) attitude! We've moved hostel now, and are so glad we did! Yesterday morning was entirely taken up with the big move, but was def...

Well, we were right to be a bit dubious about the BBQ - it was pretty suspect! The "special vegetarian menu" turned out to be non-existent and the meat was all rather unidentifiable....not quite the beautiful steaks we were imagining! Still, its all part of the learning curve! Based on that experience, we've decided to organise our own tango show tonight, rather than pay the 200 pesos to go on the one organised by the hostel - think its the better option! Wen...

We have officially changed country! We are now in Argentina - after 19 hours and 10 minutes on a bus that didn't stop except to pick up more passengers (ie. no opportunity to get off and stretch our legs!) we have arrived. Bus wasn't too bad in the grand scheme of things, fairly comfortable and we all slept okay. The food (bit like really bad airline food) was a bit rubbish, but after 7 hours on a bus when you think you'll have stopped hours ago anything is we...