We were very glad to be leaving Mendoza and set off on a 7 hour bus to reach Santiago in Chile, where we were to catch our flight to Easter Island. The road snaked along beautiful mountain passes and we got to see lots of ski slopes in use. When we reached the border all our bags were scanned to make sure we weren't carrying any fruit or vegetables - seriously. Lots of people had things confiscated, including a packet of dried lentils. We had anticipated the high...

We set off for Mendoza on the overnight bus from Buenos Aires - first class, obviously. We played bingo, watched films in English and drank champagne. We arrived early the next morning and checked out a few hostels which we all quite expensive. We are still used to Bolivian prices! We eventually found a really cheap Crispy Hands hotel but it was so awful that we decided we could only stay for one night. It was above a hideous old man?s cafe that we had to walk th...

After our disasterous time at Sierra de la Ventana, we were pleased to arrive at the train station where our overnight train was waiting to whisk us back to Buenos Aires. The train station was very old and hideous and full of old junkie tramps. We arrived 2 hours early for the train, so we got on anyway since it was already at the platform. The whole place smelled of wee and there was grafitti everywhere. Nobody liked it.We settled down into our seats, which were...

We arrived at 9.30pm after spending about 7 hours in the bus station waiting for our connecting bus. We got a cab to a hotel, but it was closed. The taxi driver took us to some other hotels, but they were all extortionate. We eventually found an old crispy hands hotel who charged us way over our maximum budget for a really hideous room. We vowed to leave the next day. The next day we headed into town and went to the train station to book a ticket back to Bue...

We took a bus from Mar del Plata which was meant to be like the buses we had seen before Argentina but even for this short two hour journey it was 'Semi-Cama', which meant there was a lovely little leg rest that pulls down from the seat infront.Necochea was very cold and the sea breezes ripped through our clothes.We arrived at a bus station that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere and we didn't have a map for this town and so we were completely diso...