Day 34 - Weds 3rd Dec - Mendoza city The bus appeared to be two hours lated arrving in Mendoza which I couldn't quite comprehend as there didn't appear to have been any hold ups. As we were arriving I realised my next mistake, that I had foolishly not written down the address or directions for the hostel I was staying in (this is what happens when you are used to a tour guide showing you around for three weeks!). Luckily I managed to find a tourist information ...

Day 31 - Sun 30th Dec - Cordoba City The weather was much better on Sunday, in fact it was really hot. I decided to go for a stroll around the city to get my bearings and head to a park that was on the other side of the city. The very centre of the city that I was staying in was a very commercial shopping centre with lots of shops and a pedestrian area - obviously this was Sunday so everything was shut. The further away from the centre I got the nicer the city...

Day 23 - Sat 22nd Nov - Cordoba Estancia I arrived at Cordoba bus station at 7am, and got picked up from there and taken to the estancia which was about an hours drive away. It really is in the middle of nowhere and we had to drive through lots of farm gates to get there. I arrived just in time for breakfast, and they had just seen off several guests so other than me there was just one lady that had been there for two weeks and was leaving in a couple of days....

Day 17 - Fri 14th Nov - Buenos Aires Finally Buenos Aires!! We left the hotel about 8am in order to get the terry from Colonia to BA. We got to the tour hotel about midday, however Nick and I had booked a difference hotel in BA as it was the last few days of his holiday. We went to the tour hotel first to listen to what our tour leader had to say and to make plans with the others. When we finally arrived at our hotel it was amazing, we think they might have ...

Day 16 - Thurs 13th Nov - Colonia, Uruguay Another early start!! This time about 5.30am (with some of the boys just getting back from their night out at that time), this time in order to travel by bus for about 3 hours to the town of Colonia. Colonia was a breath of Uruguayan fresh air as my experience of Uruguay had not been too great up until then. But Colonia was absolutely beautiful. Its a very old town with cobbled streets, a bit like Paraty in Brazil but ...