We ended up staying five nights in Valparaiso, one more than planned as Marisa had one last tummy bug. Guess we couldn´t leave South America having gone over a month in perfect health. Our day trip to Viña del Mar (it´s only 8kms from Valparaiso) happened to be on the sunniest day while we were on the coast, though it still wasn´t "beach weather". Viña is a lot more orderly and modern than Valpo - it resembles Surfers Paradise in someways - bu...

It seems like a long time since our last blog update, and an even longer distance... In fact, we have travelled 1,922 kilometres in that time (according to www.mapcrow.info). We ended up spending just the one night in El Calafate, as we did the tour to Glaciar Perito Moreno in the day then caught the overnight bus to Perito Moreno the town at 8pm. The glacier is one of those things on most people´s South American itineraries, particularly if they make it that ...

After being obstructed by the weather for the first time in months down in Ushuaia, we were expecting more of the same as we crossed into Chile... Turns out the weather has been the least of our problems this week. First things first... We caught the 5am bus from Ushuaia to Punta Arenas, arriving around 2pm (though it took us a while to remember the 1hr time difference btwn Arg and Chile), and decided to keep on keeping on and go to Puerto Natales (another 3 hrs...

From Puerto Madryn we took another overnight bus to Rio Gallegos, which is a large industrial town/city in Santa Cruz province. Basically an enforced layover for the night before catching the bus at 7am down to Ushuaia, the Southernmost City in the World. Getting there took 12 hours in all, and involved crossing into Chile while still on the mainland, taking a 10 minute ferry across the Magellan Strait to get to Tierra del Fuego, some more driving, then another...

MARISA: Another team effort this time. Seemed to work okay last time. We woke up to brilliant sunshine for our first morning in San Carlos de Bariloche and so decided to take advantage of the clear skies to take in some amazing views. We caught a bus out to Cerro Campanario (Cerro means mountain) where we rode a chair lift to the top of the mountain. At the top we found spectacular 360 degree views of multiple mountains, lakes and islands. The view was, app...