Our last (relatively) luxury bus service in Argentina took us from Buenos Aires to the northern sub-tropical city of Puerto Iguazu, in the comfort of full-cama beds in the front window seats upstairs. After a pretty decent sleep on now a lot bumpier roads, we arrived into a small, humid and lush green town and made our way to the hostel along the red mud covered streets, which seemed to be a trademark for the area. The main reason to make one's way all the way h...

The next part of our Argentinian adventure was, even by our 'overland addiction' standards, a little over the top, as we'd decided that we'd go straight from Ushuaia all the way to Buenos Aires in one go. I remember looking at this journey on Google Maps back in Melbourne and thinking how crazy it would be and so it's fair to say that I was looking forward to it for a while. In terms of the distance, take a look for yourself: it's almost the same as Manchester t...

There were many reasons for Anne and me not to go to Ushuaia: It was expensive; the only buses that ran there were old, unreliable and departed at inconvenient times; the pages on my passport were running out and getting there meant getting stamped out of Argentina, then being stamped in and then out of Chile and then getting stamped back in Argentina (and the same on the return); getting from there to Buenos Aires, our next destination, would mean taking a 52 ho...

Although the first part of our 28 hour bus journey from Bariloche to El Calafate was rather pleasant, we endured a testing final straight after waking up in the southern city of Rio Gallegos. Despite there being nothing really worth seeing in the area, the bus terminal is somewhat of a transfer hub for most of the services running through Patagonia; the fact that we had done a massive detour to get from Bariloche to El Chalten via the city is testament to that. ...

After saying our goodbyes to the lovely people we met in Mendoza, our 17 hours journey to Bariloche commenced. We befriended a couple of other travellers at the station: Victor from Germany and Alona from Israel, whose respective vegetarian diets won us a couple of extra meaty additions from the packaged dinner. We offered our super-sweet 'dulche de leche' biscuits in exchange, something that the Argentinians seem to throw at you at every opportunity. We settle...