We flew into Ushuaia, the bottom of the world, and wondered why there was still so much more land further south? But, this town has the claim to fame being the most southern town of note, and we wanted to tick the box to say we had been there. We caught a taxi to our accommodation, a cool little loft cabin built in the yard of a lovely family, only a few blocks from the main street of town. We didn't do much for the afternoon, just relaxed in our cool little a...

El Calafate, the closest town to the world renowned Perito Moreno Glacier, isn't the most exciting town. The main street is filled with outdoor shops and touristy restaurants, but there is little character. As we soon discovered, there is very little to do there other than see the Glacier, unless you have bucket loads of money! We had 4 nights in El Calafate so we had a look into some options of what to do. On our first full day there, we enquired with some tour...

El Chaltén is known as the hiking capital of Argentina, and for good reason! The town is quaint with little bakeries and pizza shops and sits near the impressive spires of Mount Fitz Roy. The best part is lots of the hikes start right from town. We had taken an overnight bus down Ruta 40. It was surely the most expensive bus in human history and included several interludes on dirt roads as there was considerable roadworks going on, but we still arrived 2 hour...

Esquel is a fairly small, uninspiring town. We arrived around dinner time and decided to eat out, amazed by the prices we encountered for basic meals. Argentina had been on the expensive side when we first visited 10 months earlier. Now it was even more so, though we can't be sure if this was due more to the 30-40% annual inflation or the fact that we were getting further south. Our next destination would be Futaleufú just back over the Chile border, but buses ...

We stopped over briefly Puerto Montt as we couldn't get a connecting bus from Castro through to Bariloche. We stayed in a lovely guesthouse and after a walk around the busy but uninspiring port city we just had a quiet afternoon. We found a place for dinner which was really busy with locals so we figured it must be good. That couldn't have been further from the truth! Sometimes we just manage to get it all wrong. The drive to Bariloche was beautiful, though it ...