It has been a while, but we have been busy and away from WiFi for a while. Please bear with us!!! We left Salta on 6th Jan and headed south to Mendoza on another comfortable overnight bus.Mendoza is no stranger to devastating earthquakes and the city fathers have taken advantage of these opportunities to redesign and build a well laid out, green and spacious town.Most of the roads are lined with trees so it is easy not to notice that many of the buildings are r...

Pants. Travelling is so often all about pants. At home, pants are always available thanks to the washer/dryer and a man has to be a real slacker to run out of clean pairs. However, when travelling it all gets a little harder. As the number of clean pants in your bag decreases to critical levels, the need to find a laundrette and stay nearby long enough to use it becomes an increasing obsession. It is due to pants that we find ourselves still in Salta and not in M...

The stay at Estancia Colome was just about perfect. It is a fantastically well laid out small hotel, sitting on the side of a hill, in the centre of a green oasis that lies in a huge expanse of desert and mountains. The place was completely silent (except for the occasional whingeing and whining from the spoilt American toddlers whose parents did not understand that the phrase 'children under 12 are not encouraged' was a subtle hint meaning 'keep the sods away')....

We left Iguazu on the 21st and travelled for 23 hours on another bus to Salta, the capital city of Argentina's north west province. Unfortunately there was no really posh buses on the route and the posh seats on the less posh bus were sold out, so life was less comfortable, but still OK. Salta is a nice, quiet and open city, but rather wet at this time of year, though when the sun is out it is very hot. We only really used Salta as a staging post on this occasion...

The bus journey to Iguazu was by far the easiest 19 hrs on public transport I have ever had to endure. The bus was smooth, the seats large and lie flat, and the entertainment was not too intrusive. The food could have been better, but as it came with a couple of small bottles of wine and a half pint of Whiskey, it was edible (unless you're a veggie, in which case you where told by the bitter ponce of a steward that he had nothing for you), but lets not forget tha...