Today we got a bus to Mr Hugo's to pick up bikes to cycle around the wineries! Craig and 4 Scottish lads we had met in Buenos Aires joined us on the tour.  First stop was a winery and museum where we couldn't do a tour as it was in Spanish so at 10am we sampled our first glass of wine! Next stop was a chocolate factory. We paid 15 pesos (£2.50) and saw how they make olive oil (it takes 15 kilos of olive oil to make 1 litre of olive oil!) then we got to sampl...

Tuesday 3rd May we got a night bus from BA to Mendoza. We left the hostel at around 7.30pm (taxi should only 20 mins from bus station) and jumped in a taxi and said 'reteiro terminal de bus' somehow communication broke down somewhere and the taxi driver had driven for 30 mins to the complete opposite side of BA to where we needed to be! We finally got through that we wanted the bus station and that our bus was leaving at 8.30 and that we'd paid 400 pesos (£60) f...

Tuesday 26th April After a lie in we headed out and onto the tube to the zoo! We paid £8 entrance for both of us and we had a great day and the sun was shining! We saw all sorts of animals (not in the best enclosures though!) you could buy food to feed them but they seemed to enjoy the popcorn we had more! We spent hours wondering around feeding Llamas, baboons, zebra's etc! We ended by watching a sea-lion show (it was quite sad after seeing them in the wild!)...

Our first week in Buenos Aires has pretty much been spent partying all night (nightclubs don't open till 2am!) and sleeping/recovering all day but we have managed to see a few sights! Tuesday 19th April  We arrived in Buenos Aires (one of South Americas most electrifying cities! After Argentina's economic collapse in 2002, BA bounced back and created a renaissance that keeps the city aglow today) about midday and got a taxi to our hostel. We went straight to b...

Sunday 17th April Breakfast at 6am we packed our stuff, said goodbye to our 6 amazing crew members and headed on land to Puerto Ayora to catch a bus to the El Chato tortoise reserve. It was very muddy and hot but we did sees few tortoises (the most famous reptile in the archipelago, they can live for several hundred years. Seafarers killed tortoises for their meat in the 18th and 19th centuries and from an estimated population of 200,000 only some 15,000 now rem...