After a nearly 30 hour journey from BA to Santiago to Iquique to Santa Cruz, we finally arrived in our 3rd country of the trip - Bolivia. Organising the visa we needed at the border was absolutely no hassle which we were both very relieved about - after all, it was 1:30am and the night before was spent in an airport so we both bombed. We caught a cab to the dingiest of hostels - the first room key they gave us opened into an unmade room and the second key open...

After a couple very active days in both the Argentinian and Chilean side of the Andean lake district, both of us needed a couple days of relaxation, so we chose San Martin de Los Andes about 3 hours north of Bariloche to lay low for a couple days We had been there for a couple of hours a week before when we had done the 7 lake drive with Jeff and Ramona and we both fell in love with it. It would be a perfect spot for our 'holiday from our holiday'. Spoilt! We ...

Lake district Argentina and Chile': 7 October to 13 October So, for the sake of fairness and the fact that Rome is not feeling all that great today, the readers of the blog will have to bare with my lesser literary skills for this session. We arrived in Bariloche after a 14 hour (overnight) bus trip from Puerto Madryn. There was a group of 7 of us that came off the bus together. There was Jeff and Ramona (the Dutch brother and sister that we travelled...

It seems that our ong haul journeys always seem to have a story to them. This time we caught the local underground to the intercity bus station in Buenos Aires to meet our friends Jeff and Ramona to head to Puerto Madryn. In order to get into the station we had to walk through a local outdoor market. We obviously stuck out like sore thumbs, backpacks and all. So we are strolling around towards the station quite chuffed with ourselves for getting there without inc...

It seems that our ong haul journeys always seem to have a story to them. This time we caught the local underground to the intercity bus station in Buenos Aires to meet our friends Jeff and Ramona to head to Puerto Madryn. In order to get into the station we had to walk through a local outdoor market. We obviously stuck out like sore thumbs, backpacks and all. So we are strolling around towards the station quite chuffed with ourselves for getting there without inc...