Everyone we have met who has been to the biggest waterfalls in the world told us to make the effort in taking the 2800km round trip from Buenos Aries - boy, were they right! Once again we were back on the overnight bus for a long journey of 18 hours - thank god for business class buses out here - and eventually arrived in a perfect example of small town Argentina called Puerto Iguazu - the furthest place you can travel north to in Argentina before you hit B...

Buenos Aries was another stop to partake of city life for a while and recuperate after the tours of Bolivia. We had heard a lot of really good things about BA and thankfully were not disappointed. We had decided to make things a little more like home for the week we were in situ' and rented an apartment in the Recoleta district of the city (something akin to Kensington in London). Our first day was spent scouting the areas and finding our feet. Initia...

Mendoza is the wine capital of Argentina and houses many vineyards which are open to the public, about 30 minutes from the city. So we spent a couple of days doing the wine tours and sampling of course!. As you can see from the photos, the bottles come in big sizes over here. Argentina is more well known for its reds rather than whites so around here they make lots of Malbec, Cabernet's and Pinots. The vineyards are located close to the base of the highest peak o...

At long last we are back in the land of civilisation! Salta is one of the first big cities in Argentina as you cross the border from Bolivia and is very western in its appearance. Having spent 8 weeks in the mointains of Peru and Bolivia we got used to the underedevelopment and it wasn't until we got here that we remembered what it's like to have facilities again - like permanent running water and electricity. We have to say that whilst Bolivian scenery was ...