Salta, Argentina We arrived in Salta after a long and uncomfortable 18hr bus ride from Mendoza only to find that the hostel we'd booked was already full. They arranged for us to stay one night at another hotel, however, because it was a long weekend and public holiday in Argentina we spent most of our second day there trying to find a place to stay. We managed to find some modest accomodation at Hostel CorreCamino ($150ARP/n -dbl) and set off on a 1070-stair w...

Mendoza, Argentina Although our 10-hour overnight bus from Cordoba was the shortest of our busrides to date, it was by far the toughest due to an unannounced transfer by our bus company to another which was not very pleasant (beware of Mercobus). We were pretty tired when we arrived in Mendoza at 6AM, however, received a warm welcome at our hostel (Hostel Lao $200ARP/n -dbl) and were invited to crash on the lounge couches until our room was available. We slept...

Cordoba, Argentina After a 24-hour bus ride from Puerto Iguazu we arrived somehow sea-sick in the central Argentinian city of Cordoba. Cordoba we found out is actually a pretty cool city. It has over a million people, which was significant change for us compared to the lazy, small-town feel of Puerto Iguazu. It has old-school Spanish colonial architecture, skinny cobble-stone streets, and a ton of churches and universities (seven to be exact). It was origin...

Puerto Iguazu, Argentina / Foz do Iguacu, Brasil We arrived in Puerto Iguazu on the morning of Sunday, 7th August after a very comfortable 19-hour super-cama bus ride from BA ($570ARP/pp on Via Baroloche). It was undoubtebly the best bus ride I've ever experienced with fully reclining seats, meal-service and seat-mounted televisions...a very welcome comfort for the hangovers we had following our last night in BA. We checked into our hostel (Hostel Inn, $200ARP...

Buenos Aires, Argentina We arrived in Buenos Aires in the early hours of Friday, August 5th after a comfortable 12-hour fllight out of Auckland on Aerolineas Argentina. We had a 7-hour departure delay but the flight itself was fine (thank you Jenny and Riria for making two trips out to the airport for us). As we flew into Ezeiza Airport we caught a birdseye view of the sprawling 16-million-person capital city. Pretty incredible site. We shared a cab to our h...