After an 17 (bonus when it's supposed to be 18!) hour bus journey of fun - Spanish bingo didn't really entertain me that much - we arrived in Salta. It's a massive town / city but really beautiful with flowers everywhere and lots of old but nice architecture. After finding some food we headed into the local museum where the Inca Mummies are found. These are 3 children that were discovered in 1999, they are perfectly preserved as they were trapped in dry ice - ...

Well we all survived the 19 hour bus ride which was a bonus. Suprisingly it really wasn't that traumatic an experience - reclienable leather seats and the downstairs of the bus to ourselves felt more like a business class flight than a rickerty South American bus journey - think I'll get something alot more like that in Bolivia though! Having arrived rather tired despite the luxury of the bus we weren't so keen on the lack of private bathroom in the hostel (I...

For the last bit of our winter adventure we headed to Bariloche, a famous ski resort. The welcome to the town wasn't that great as we managed to get in a slight shouty row with a restaurant manager - ops! I ordered steak and it was bloody - yuck so asked NICELY if they would mind cooking it a little more , waiter said no probs in good old english and off my steak went. Suprisingly a new one came after a while interestingly a little rarer than the first! Being...

Well have been in yet another awesome place in Patagonia - really is an amazing area of Argentina. After the usual three hour delay we made it down to the end of the earth. This is the last inhabited place before the end of the earth. Am enjoying having another luxurious double room to myself with lots of squidgy pillows and lovely en-suite!! Backpacking is tough!! Anyhow on our first day here we headed off to the snow sports area, trying our hand at a coupl...

After a whole day waiting for the bus in El Chalten for the bus that goes once a day we made it back to the luxury hostel we'd spent one night in on the way down to El Chalten. We've spent two awesome days here seeing the most amazing sights. Definately my favourite place in South America so far. On the first day we took a trip to the Perito Moreno glacier. It is 5km across and 40km wide and one of the only glaciers that is still expanding. After stopping to...