Buenos dias chicos, here's what we've been up to for the last four days: On Wednesday, we arrived in Cordoba after our overnight bus journey. We had a few difficult encounters which didn't immediately endear us to the city! Firstly, trying to book an onward ticket to La Falda, we came across two separate and presumptuous ticket salesmen, who almost sold us a ticket for today instead of Friday because they refused to listen! (Probably because they didn't understa...

Our latest blog lets you know what we've got up to for the past five days in Mendoza and its surrounds: Our bus from Salta to Mendoza left at 3:30 on Wednesday. It was a long and tedious 19 hour journey, with the boredom relieved when we played bingo as a whole bus! We didn't win unfortunately, I think we struggled a bit with them calling out the numbers in Spanish! Our dinner on board was disgusting, with some strange cured/pickled pork and egg thing. Both Jo a...

Here's an update from Salta, where we've spent the last four days kicking back and relaxing... We got here on Monday after a two hour bus ride from Jujuy. Our hostel, called Hostel Salta por Siempre, is really cool and has incredibly friendly staff. That afternoon we sat out in Salta's main square, Plaza 9 de Julio, which had plenty of greenery, a fountain and equestrian statue, and hundreds and hundreds of pigeons! (I managed to get their poop on my jumper and ...

We've now reached our seventh out of eight countries on our round the world trip. Scary how fast it's going! We got to Argentina on Friday after a mammoth journey from San Pedro de Atacama. We stopped at a blustery outpost high in the Andean mountains to be stamped into Argentina. Apart from the wind, the whole process was relatively painless. The road was extremely windy, however, with more brilliant scenery. We spotted tons of cacti lining the sides of gorges ...

Time for our last blog from Chile already! We've had a great last four days, here's a re-cap: Monday was the day of our awful bus journey up to San Pedro de Atacama from Santiago. We had to get up at 6, and we were on a bus from Valparaiso over to Santiago at 6:45. The most memorable part of the day was definitely on this first, short two-hour journey. People had reserved seats on the bus, whereas we hadn't (we weren't actually sure whether we should have shown ...