We took a ferry from Colonia del Sacremento (via a bus from Montevideo) to Buenos Aires and checked in to our hostel which was more like a hotel right in the centre of the city on Avenida Florida. On our first day in Buenos Aires we went to a place called Recoletta which is an affluent area of the city and has nice hippy market and is the home of the famous Recoletta Cementario. This is a cemetery built for the more prestigious people in the city, and is resti...

The journey to Iguazu was long, but comfortable and we even arrived a little early, the journey was a mere 21 hours. We quickly found a place to stay called "Guembe Hostel". We were sucked into the guy's patter which was mainly football and the offer of 2 nights in a double room for only 75 pesos, which was almost half the price of the place over the road. After a nice parrilla (BBQ) meal of local meat we had an early night as we wanted to get to the fa...

The journey to Iguazu was long, but comfortable and we even arrived a little early, the journey was a mere 21 hours. We quickly found a place to stay called "Guembe Hostel". We were sucked into the guy's patter which was mainly football and the offer of 2 nights in a double room for only 75 pesos, which was almost half the price of the place over the road. After a nice parrilla (BBQ) meal of local meat we had an early night as we wanted to get to the fa...

We got to the Argentinian border via a scenic 3.5 hour train journey to Villazon. We got our exit stamps then walked into Argentina where we were greeted with a long queue and a ridiculous bag inspection of every person entering the country. There was one guy wading through every single bag (including your dirty underwear) which took ages, lots of people missed their connection buses. When we got to the front a second guy started searching bags, he didn't even lo...