Do not ask me why we choose Uspallata for a stop over...that rural village actually turned out to be another beautiful scenery We stayed in a "hotel" called Viena (they obviously have some problems with the spelling), the owner's granddad is from Vienna! To tell you the truth, the hotel is no better than a hostel and for breakfast we had to wake up the owners! First day there, we enjoyed a "tour" through the lovely landscape on the horses - see pictures! That ...

Do not ask me why we choose Uspallata for a stop over...that rural village actually turned out to be another beautiful scenery landscape wise! We stayed in a "hotel" called Viena (they obviously have some problems with spelling), the owner's granddad is from Vienna! To tell you the truth, the hotel is no better than a hostel and for breakfast we had to wake up the owners! First day there, we enjoyed a "tour" through the lovely landscape on the horses - see pict...

The 19h bus trip from Bariloche to Mendoza was like hell!! At the beginning it was quite alright, we had the seats in the first row, it was sunny and quite comfortable. The landscape/scenery for the first 1.5h was incredible beautiful (once again). Come the night and everything went downhill. It was freezing in the bus, we could not get comfortable nor sleep and the food was rubbish too (apart from that they start eating dinner at 22.00h and we already tried to s...

Ok, I was telling you about taking the plane to Bariloche instead of the bus because of the long travel time. Here comes the story: We were stuck in El Calafate because our plane was due to leave on Sunday and needed to be reconfirmed on Saturday. As we wanted to do that, the owner of the hostel kind enough told us that there is no way to contact the airline because it is run by the government and they do not work on weekends, obviously. On top of that he said th...

After a 6hours bus trip from Puerto Natales we arrived in El Calafate in Argentina. We had to pass some of the Andes on the way from Chile to Argentina, it was snow everywhere and it was actually quite scary to sit in the first row in the bus because the bus of course was an old one and nobody took care of the snow on the road...but luckily the local bus driver knew what he was doing or knew how to drive this bloody bus in winter conditions! Even on the Argentini...