Friday 5th October We arrived early morning and got a taxi to our hostel. All three of us were really impressed. The room was great, the hostel owners were over friendly and helpful, plus we had internet and free use of the kitchen. After we all showered and got clean we went straight to the tourist office (which was kinda part of the hostel) and booked our trip for the next day. Horse riding at the ranch... Yeeee Haaaaaaaaa!!! We had a free day so we decided to...

Sunday 30th September After a 19 hour coach journey we arrived in Mendoza at around 7am. We tried to get a taxi to our hostel but no one seemd to want to take us. (god knows why!) After about 30mins we managed to flag a taxi willing to take us. When we arrived (about 3 mins later) at our hostel none of us were too impressed (apart from Lisa) with the look from the outside. The man who ran the hostel (who we named Daniel Son) let us in and showed us to our room. ...

Tuesday 25th September (i wrote ushuaia having had 1 glass of wine, now i'm writing bariloche having had nearly a bottle whilst tom is trying to play guitar!!!) We arrived at hostel thoroughly dissapointed that the hostel looked nothing like the website, the room was not great and we came back down to earth with a bump! We asked where the best places were to eat and decided to consol ourselves with a posh meal in a posh restuarant!!! The restuarant was lovely a...

Saturday 22nd September We arrived in Ushuaia late afternoon and was met and taken to our 'Hotel'. Accomodation on this trip is great but this hotel was the best, the rooms were great with our own TV (for tom) and hairdryer (for tom too!!), heated floors, king size beds, walk in shower, porn magazines in receptions (for tom again!!) and enough space for tom to go for a run in the room! That night we headed down the steep hill to the river front of this port tow...

Sunday 17th September Today we were picked up from our hostel in El Calafate at 9am, and took a bus to El Chalten that took around three and a half hours. About 1.5 hours into our trip we stopped for a tea and toilet break. The place was like an old farm house with a tiny cafe that sold home made cakes. Lisa and Nikki had a HUGE slice of apple pie each and as I wasn´t that hungry I had an even bigger bit of pie (not sure of the flavour). It was some kind of...