The easiest and most beautiful way to cross from Peru to Bolivia is via Lake Titicaca, the highest navigational lake in the world. We made our first stop as a party of 6 at Copacabana, a small town on the shore of the vast lake. What stuck us most was the contrast from Peruvian to Bolivian life, it's almost immediate and quite harsh. The houses are more decrepit, there are mountains of rubbish at the side of the road and life in general just appears much harder...

The trip from Mendoza to Arequipa, Peru will live in memory as one of the worst journeys of our trip. Quite what we were thinking when we booked the 35 hour bus journey from Argentina, through Chile and into Peru, god only knows. After 42 hours we arrived in Arequipa, knackered, pissed off and smelling of the coach toilet that hadn't been emptied for the duration of the journey, glamorous stuff this globetrotting! This leg of the trip was pre-planned, meetin...

Sometimes it feels like we've spent more time on buses than actually seeing places in Argentina. We have definitely underestimated just how big the country is and as a result, have spent a small fortune and hours of our lives on buses covering 1000's of Kms! Not to grumble though as the next stage of our trip was well worth the laborious bus journeys. First stop, El Bolson, a slow-paced hippy town in northern Patagonia. We arrived and the sun shone for the durati...

The bus with wings finally landed in El Calafate after just 3 hours, as oppose to 18 that it would have taken on the bus - also a fun (albeit scary) experience! The main reason for venturing to El Calafate was to see the Perito Moreno glacier, 1 of only 2 advancing glaciers on the planet. Amazing to see huge chunks of ice falling from the glacier face and to hear the creaks and cracks as it moves. Yet again, we experienced crap weather - wind, rain and low grey ...

Heading south to the 'southern most city in the world', Ushuaia, we made a short pit stop in Puerto Madryn, on the east coast of Argentina. Having spent the past 3.5 months in the heat, we were totally under-prepared for wind, rain and the cold. During whaling season, it's possible to see Southern Right Whales and Orcas off the Peninsula Valdes, just north of Puerto Madryn. Unfortunately our timing was out, but we managed to get up close and personal with sealio...