After 32 hours on a bus, we arrived in Puerto Madryn, a city of 70k people near to Peninsular Valdez on Sunday night.  Many welsh people settled here over a century ago, though you wouldn´t think it to look at them, although our tour guide did like suspiciously like Robbie Savage! On Monday we took a 13 hour tour to Peninsular Valdez, which is known for it´s population of Southern Right Whales and Killer Whales, which settle in the bay ...

Ushuaia, is the bottom of the world.  It´s the southernmost city in the world (we have the passport stamp to prove it), although there is a small military town of 2k people called Port William just over the border in Chile.  To get here we had to cross the border again, as Ushuaia is in Argentina, as well as crossing a channel on a boat, as the bottom part of the country is not linked by land.  Ushuaia is a small city of about ...

After crossing the Chilean-Argentine border on the 15th, we arrived in Puerto Natales, a small town of about 20k people a few hours from Parque National Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia, and home of probably the largest burgers we have ever eaten.  They were the size of a plate, with a heap of chips on another plate on the side. We found a nice hostel called Nikos 2 with a nice English-speaking woman, whose dog took a real fancy to Alliso...

After safely making it out of Brazil, we flew back to Buenos Aires to meet my brother Nick.  Leaving the airport we grabbed a taxi, sat back and relaxed.  Five minutes later as we approached the first toll, the engine cut out.  Generally the taxis in South America aren´t of a high standard anyway, but this one was an absolute piece of crap, and we were happy when the brakes worked.The driver turned round to us and uttered the only word he kne...

On the 1st October we took a flight from Buenos Aires to Sau Paulo, then caught a connecting bus to Rio de Janeiro. We arrived in Rio pretty late so caught a cab to a hostel in Copacabana beach to avoid getting robbed. When we arrived we were greeted by a man who reminded us of Borat! His English was interesting to say the least, most words were slurred and elongated for example for soap he said swappy swappy and ran off like Manuel from fawlty towers to retrieve...