We arrived in Mendoza on Monday morning 21st, This place is basically a desert with artificial grass and hoses keeping trees alive! Apparently they only have 200mm of rain a year here and this definetly is'nt the season for it! We met up with our friend from rio, Pipo who is a tour guide here in Mendoza, and he took us for a BBQ in the mounains, and this BBQ wasnt your standard UK burger in a bun, it was full on chunks of steak strips and ribs, sooo good and th...

Ok, well we finally got to Salta, back into Argentina thank goodness!! We were only there for 1 day so not too much to say really, we took a walk to the centre of the city and went to a museum called MAAM, which displays Inca girls found in the Andes mountains surrounding Salta who were found in 1999 buried in the 14th century after beeing sacrificed. It was pretty freaky, as every part of them were still in tact from the girls skin to their hair... unfortunately...

Oh Bolivia How Fun.................. It started with a supossed 37 hour bus trip from Buenos Aires to Santa Cruz (Bolivia).. However we did'nt know about the road blocks in Bolivia that the farmers decided to set up on the roads in protest of there pay! We were 350km from Santa Cruz when the bus stopped at around 4am in a queue! This was the first road block! We decided to go back to sleep then went and had a look when the sun came up! It did'nt look that hard t...

We took a boat from Buenos Aires to Colonia De Sacremento in Uruguay. The customs guys just wanted to play football with our ball through the security scanning detectors. It was a 3 hour boat trip and we ended up in what we thought was a hostel but basically some old ladies house which was quite funny! Luckily we were with a girl called Sophie who was pretty much fluent in Spanish, we are slowly picking up the language! Uruguay is a pretty chilled out placed and ...

So since we last spoke to you all we have travelled to another country, another city and more wonderful sites!! The city of Buenos Aires in Argentina!! It is not at all what we would have imagined it to be, very European, but also quite Americanised. The whole time we were in Brazil everyone that had been to Argentina raved about how good the steak is... so that was our first port of call on our first night! It was pretty good... but the meal was made more intere...