After leaving the town of Puerto Madryn we drove south to Punta Tombo, a peninsula where there is the largest colony of Magallenic penguins in S America. Now we were impressed by the number on the Valdes Peninsula but this just blew us away. The 3 km long, 600 m wide Punta Tombo peninsula is covered with sand, clay and gravel and between September and April thousands of penguins, scientists believe more like 1 million, come to lay their eggs and get the baby peng...

The day after visiting the Fray Bentos factory we headed to the border which is a bridge across the river Platte. It all went very smoothly, amazingly smoothly on the Uruguay side but when we got across the bridge we couldn't find the Argentinian customs and immigration offices. There were several buildings but one was closed and in another an official looking man just waved us out and on our way which was rather disconcerting. We even asked some lorry drivers ...