Cruised overnight to the East coast of Argentina to hit the second spot on our Argentina; "This is all rather weird" list. The first one was a place called Difunta Correa, which translates as Correa defunct. Legend has it a women in the 1840s called Deolinda Correa was walking in the dessert when she died of thirst, carrying her baby. Passing men found her later and her baby was still suckling at the dead womens nip. This was declared a miracle and a shrine was q...

Mendoza was difficult to leave, the city is clean, cheap, interesting and we both could have easily spent a month there trying all the restaurants, the adventure sports and of course the winery's. Until 2001 Argentina had an exchange rate of 1 peso to 1 US dollar, after ´something´ happened their economy collapsed and now you get 3 pesos to 1 US dollar. So overnight everything became 1 third of its price!, for tourists that is. You can enjoy all the tra...

Calama, has been renamed Calamity, we had to kill 12 hours waiting for the next bus to Santiago so we sat on a park bench and watched the world go by. Local Chileans walked by wearing their designer jeans, t-shirts, Gucci shades and Nike airs, all jiber jabering on their mobile phones. The park had a sound system which played James blunt, dido and the like. It all felt very European. Chileans are still sporting the odd shell-suit, bum-bag and dodgy perm. One ver...

Got to Calama and found the next bus to Salta in Argentina is leaving in 4 days time. It appears we didn´t factor in that january is Chile and Argentina´s summer holiday time and the whole country has booked themselves onto the entire bus network. Bummer. Time to scrap plan of going into northern Argentina, it was probably rubbish anyway, we keep telling ourselves, and turn around, back onto the Pan-American highway and get south to Santiago, a mere 24...

Another 10 hours on a bus from Puno to the border town of Tacna the gateway to Chile from Peru. Found a collective taxi to drive us the 20 km to immigrations at the border and a further 20 km to the nearest Chile town of Arica. Spending the day looking around Arica before junping on another 12 hour bus to Calama in Chile to catch another 15 hour bus to Salta in Argentina, Evita!!!!! Cooper Out living in a bus Love Dan & Kat