Rosario was our final city before reaching the capital - Buenos Aires (BA). It was a stunning city, its major port situated on the River Parana, a beautiful setting with lots of bars, restaurants, and clubs lining the riverfront.We spent a few days wandering around the city and port, taking in its sights, churches, and museums.The weather was thankfully much brighter than it had been in Cordoba, making this a much easier task!It is difficult to describe what we s...

We arrived in Cordoba in the early hours of the morning, only to find that we couldn't actually check in to the hostel we had chosen, until the people checking out had done so and the rooms had been cleaned. Given that we had been travelling all night, we were absolutely exhausted and simply slumped into the chairs in reception, until our rooms were available. A room and a shower later, we dumped Marisha's laundry in at the laundrette around the corner and set ...

We arrived at the bus station in San Juan pretty late at night and were picked up by a really lovely, chatty taxi driver. We were hoping to check into the HI hostel, but when we arrived it was full and we had to make do with another hostel nearby. The place itself was fine, having a nice lounge area, clean kitchen and bathrooms, but our door room STANK of stale smoke, which no amount of ventilating seemed to be able to banish! Luckily, we were only planning to...

After the crappy buses of Bolivia and Northern Argentina, nothing could have prepared us for our luxury first class vehicle with leather seats to Mendoza!! On board we were treated to tea and coffee, dinner with wine, and Rakhee even befriended the conductor, who later invited her to drink mate (a kind of herbal tea- very popular here) with him and the rest of the drivers downstairs. All of this was accompanied by a game of bingo (we didn't win, but the prize w...

After all the dramas with the bus, we FINALLY arrived in Salta in the early evening. It was very quickly noticeable that we were in a more affluent place, as the bus station was much more modern and Argentine-looking (if that makes any sense!).On the cab ride to our hostel, we got to see just how beautiful the city was by night.Lights twinkled all over the city, which consisted of small streets lined with an interesting mix of modern and colonial buildings.We che...