5,500km later and I´m writing my next blog! We´ve been on quite a journey. If anyone is thinking about coming here .. be warned Argentina is MASSIVE. So we spent a couple more days in Buenos Aires, had night out etc and then got back on the road. We took a 23 hour bus journey down to a place called Trelew to see los pinguinos! Its a national park which has the second largest penguin population in the world which as you can imagine was quite impressive. They get 500,000 there some months in the year. I think we possibly went at the strangest time of year ... all the babies have to shed their feathers before they swim off somewhere so they all stand upright completely still in the wind so the feathers blow off. Now picture a barren landscape with thousands of penguins standing completely still, as far as you can see in every directions. Very weird! The tour was in Spanish so obviously we know everything there is to know about penguins now. NOT.

After that we took another 25 hour bus journey to a place called El Calafate right at the very bottom of Argentina... and as you can imagine we were completely unprepared for ANTARTIC temperatures... we were their in flip flops. Shock. That seems to be pretty much the story of my travelling history. We rock up in flip flops and everyone else is there with hiking boots and thermals. Standard. Despite all the staring at our ridiculousness, El Calafate was really nice. Like a ski resort, minus the mountains or snow. We took a tour to see Perito Moreno glacier which was (we all agreed) the most impressive thing we´ve ever seen. AND we managed to see three massive chunks of it break off and smash into the water below. (People wait around for hours to see that.) We pretty much wore every item of clothing available to us and I still have NEVER been that cold. I thought I was going to lose a couple of toes at least. There were mini iceburgs in the water on the boat tour. Crazy.

We managed to find a wicked all you can eat meat house in El Calafate full of locals... it was definitely a highlight. The meat here is something else. I ate my way through a leg of lamb, chorizo sausage and steak. Its all cooked on a big open grill thing... huge joints of meat. Unfortunately I did manage to walkat speed, face first into Sophies bunk bed in the middle of the night, which was definitely NOT a highlight. I thought I´d broken not just my nose but just generally my whole face. I must have been delirious from all the meat. In other news me and Soph have both been pooed on the head by pigeons in the last week. Matthew look out.

After El Calafate we decided to head north as we need to be in Bolivia pretty soon.. so we decided to take on.. wait for it.. 48 HOUR bus journey.. that is correct two whole days and two whole nights... it didn´t go too badly. However normally they give you at least a few meals.. this time they gave us one measly (you guessed it) ham and cheese sandwich. I didn´t even want to eat it. You can keep your plastic ham and plastic cheese thanks.

xx