Mendoza Our first impression of Mendoza wasn't great. We arrived and the taxi driver tried to charge us 50 pesos for a 5 minute drive to our hostel from the bus station. We used our bartering skills to haggle him down, skills we would need again later in our stay in the wine capital of Argentina. Our first excursion was to go horse riding in the foothills of the Andes. I've never been that comfortable around horses (I think it all stemmed from playing buckaroo...

Cordoba Cordoba wasn't originally on our list of places to visit but after finding out it's the cheapest place to do a sky dive in Argentina we immediately added it to our itinerary. I instantly developed a soft spot for Cordoba, becoming my favourite Argentinian city so far. It has a friendly and charming character with stunning architecture from the colonial period. It is the second largest city in Argentina with the highest student population, hosting 9 univ...

Buenos Aires I'll be honest... We didn't do a great deal of sight seeing whilst in Buenos Aires but we did sufficiently experience the nightlife! The night clubs didn't get going until around 2am so we had our fair share of late nights. Our hostel was situated on the busiest and liveliest avenue in BA - Av. De Majo. We soon learnt it is a city that never sleeps, especially when the local football team, River Plate, gets promoted to the premier league. The avenu...

Iguazu Falls - Brazil and Argentina After our overnight 18 hour bus journey from Florianopolis we arrived in Foz do Iguazu. We are getting used to the long bus journeys and strangely beginning to enjoy them. The Brazilian and Argentinian buses are renowned for being first class standard and very comfy, some even serve champagne! I'm sure the standard may change when we get to Bolivia... We dumped our bags at the hostel and headed straight to the Iguazu nationa...

Bariloche. To come back up north we took the 24hr bus up the fabled route 40 with the Andes peaking out of our left hand window. We had expected to stay in a hostel with a jacuzzi and a lake side view but the hostel was closed for refurbishment so we were stuck in a cheaper alternative with only a bidet. We explored the Swiss chalet town of Bariloche the next day, visited the museum and saw some epic authentic street dancing Randy Jackson would have been proud o...