Buenos Aires is a huge city (over 15m people) so was quite a change from quiet, little Colonia. We arrived in the neighbourhood of Tigre late in the afternoon on Thursday 8 March, after quite a cool ferry trip through the estuary. Customs took quite a while :-/ but afterwards we found the tourist information office easily enough. They pointed us towards the train station and we got on the next train to Martinez, which is where our host's family stayed.We had arra...

Colonia del Sacrimento, the oldest city in Uruguay, is a chilled, quaint little town about 2 hours west of Montevideo by bus, and we had an awesome time there. It was first founded in 1680 by the Potuguese as a smuggling port to get goods accross to Buenos Aires, and then Portugal and Spain spent the next few hundred years fighting over it. The old part of the city has now been declared a UNESCO world heritage site, so most of the old buildings have been preserve...

Our bus arrived in Buenos Aires at around midday on Friday 2 March. We had to walk about 2 kilometers from the bus station to the port to catch the connecting ferry to Montevideo, which wasn't so much fun in the heat and with all our stuff. The ferry is quite big - takes hundreds of people and there is a restaurant and a decent sized duty-free shop on board. The journey takes 3 hours, so we arrived late in the evening. Our hostel was overlooking one of the main p...

The trip from Sao Paulo to Foz do Iguacu, the closest town to Iguacu Falls on the Brazilian side of the border, was our first long-distance bus journey, and we were both quite relieved when it was over.Tuesday we arrived late morning and, since we didn't have a lot of time there, immidiately headed off (with all our stuff) to the bird park on the Brazilian side of the falls. Its really cool and we got to walk though these huge, open aviaries and see all these ama...

I deserve a medal! Why? Because I successfully managed to wee on a moving bus...in the dark. I do mention `successfully` as many people manage to wee on a moving bus, even in the dark, but the results...well, I`d hardly give them a gold star...Let me explain: Kevin & I had just hopped on a bus from Sao Paulo around 19h30 so it was almost dark outside. In the evenings, the bus driver lowers the light setting in the bus so it was quite dimley lit. I needed go t...