Hopefully the last big journey for a while! Today we are taking the bus from Bariloche right the way up north through Argentina to Mendoza, heart of Argentina's wine country! It's 19 hours though, so we splashed out on first class, which at least has fully reclining beds, wifi and food (although I made an army of sandwiches yesterday just in case). Although it might not be very enjoyable for me, as literally two minutes in I spilt the peach juice all over...

We woke up this morning and headed out to sort bus tickets and move hostels. All the business sorted, we then got the bus far out to Llao llao, pronounced show show like shower. From there we spent the day walking all around the woods and lake, including up a hill for an amazing view of the lake. Take a look at the stunning pictures.Later we got in some supplies for making tons of sandwiches for our big coach journey the next day! We also ended up having two dinn...

Today we are going over from Puerto Varas to San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina, a trip which in theory should take 4-5hours on the bus. And encountered yet another ridiculous delay trying to get over the border to Argentina, three hours. The time they make everyone wait to scan then search every single orifice on the bus is unbelievable.Thank goodness that we set off at 8.30am, and were wise enough not to book a hotel that required checkout by 4pm (it's c...

Today we went on a tour to Chiloe island. We've mainly found that it's just as easy to do things ourselves than pay a guide, however we'd been told public transport on the island was sporadic at best!We set off at 8.30 and got a ferry over, and when on the island we saw some black necked swans. It is the wrong time of year for penguins, so we went to the East side of the island, first to a little village called Chacao, then down to the capital, Castr...

Despite the unpromising start with the fog, we arrived at our hostel and asked what we should do whilst in town. They recommended that we hire bikes and ride to Fruttigar, which we then proceeded to do. Unfortunately, we hadn't been on a bike since San Francisco, and he didn't mention that the 32km over to Fruttigar was over quite possibly the hilliest terrain I've ever seen. Or so it felt. We got lost at least twice, were chased by a dog who came...