Having reached Salta from La Rioja we were pleasantly surprised to find Salta a fabulous city with a beautiful Main square surrounded by beautiful colonial buildings with Orange trees growing in the middle. The digs were nice and not too expensive so it looked as if we were going to have a great time in Salta. First thing on the agenda though was to find the Irish Pub that was going to show the cup final, you have to get your priorities right you know. Having fou...

La Rioja is a small city 10hrs north of Mendoza and on the way to Salta, our next destination. We have dropped off here to see the Valle de Luna and Talampaya Canyon. Both are dramatic rock formations and landscapes formed over millions of years by rain and wind erosion. Also, a lot of prehistoric skeletons and old human petroglyphs have been found here as well. We had to go with organised tours here and booked both parques to be done in the same day, which was a...

Arriving in Mendoza at 7am, after a 19 hr coach journey, we were knackered but needed to get a rug, I had been carrying since Puyuhapi, to the UK. So after we got some digs we were off to the post office. Now, we`ve done this a few times now so you would have thought it would be easy by now, but no, every town has a different way of sending packages to England, and Mendoza was no different. After about half hour of waiting for customs to clear our rug, we signed ...

Having crossed the border we arrived in San Martin de los Andes. A very Pretty town with many wooden cabin style buildings, you could make the mistake of thinking you were in Switzerland or Austria. Here we did a couple of walks up the hillsides by the lake, nothing strenuous just taking in the scenery of the surrounding mountains and the lake. Also, we did a boatride out to a small place called Quila Quina, where we took a picnic, which we enjoyed at various wat...

Having left El Calafate, we proceeded up the Ruta 40 to Perito Moreno. The route was very rough, dusty and bumpy to say the least and we didn't get much sleep on the 10 hour trip as it was like trying to sleep in a bouncy castle with a million kids jumping up and down on it. Most of the scenery was very baron and flat but it was an experience. There were no real towns along the route and toilet stops were by rivers which had clumps of trees either side and the dr...