Mendoza is the place where all the wine comes from in Argentina, and on arriving in the city the bus was mostly surrounded by vineyards. At the terminal a really nice hostel-tout (unheard of) told us where to buy onward tickets to Chile and where our hostel was situated. We walked the few blocks to hostel Mora, which is a really nice hostel although one of those places you can´t imagine guys staying at unless they were dragged there by their girlfriends. The roo...

Despite feeling as though I had the best night sleep of my life on the night bus, I arrived at Cordoba at 7am really tired... and Alex felt like she hadn´t slept at all. I proceeded to feel fairly unwell throughout our time in Cordoba, which I can only assume is extended recovery from whatever bug I had in Bolivia. As a consequence, this is likely to be a very boring blog update! We took a taxi to our hostel, which was lucky as it didn´t even have a sign outsi...

Alex and I were excited about returning to Argentina. Bolivia is probably the most beautiful country in South America, and definitely different to home, but it is exhausting and unhygienic. From the moment I entered the country I had been varying levels of unwell and life had progressed into pringles, snickers and TV in bed, which we had mostly resisted before in our travels. Today is our 18th semanniversary. Despite our later-than-planned bedtime, we were down ...

Day 123 - Our fourth and final mesiversary! And I am definitely ill! We were up at 5am to catch our bus to Tupiza - a great big thing with no toilet, which means no drinking for a 6 hour journey. The driver tried to pull out at 5:55am and was told off by his local passengers as he was missing some people. The journey was across the badlands, which means flat desert with nothing but llamas for an hour or so, followed by bumpy desert for many more hours. It was ac...

Arriving in Uyuni with no proper plans we decided to walk to the plaza and find a place for breakfast and to regroup. We positioned ourselves in the only place open, with painfully slow service and decided that there was no way we could commence a Salt Flat tour today and would instead check in to a hotel. After that we went and booked a tour with the only feasible company that had been recommended to us, and I put myself back to bed while Alex went to discover t...