As we approached Buenos Aires we were excited.  We heard Argentina was more European than the rest of South America, so we expected good food and more importantly, fast food!  We´ve never looked forward to MacDonalds before in our lives until we got to Buenos Aires, but of course felt sick after we ate it.Buenos Aires is just like most cities in the world, which was re-assuring as we´d missed that for the last few weeks.  There´s ...

Another early start, as we headed off to Iguazu Falls after a scary night´s sleep through the loudest thunderstorm either of us have ever heard.  It woke Rich, which is not an easy thing to do, hence the five alarm clocks he has.  The thunder was within a couple of miles of us, and was followed by hours of torrential rain that we worried may flood us out of our flimsy hostel room.The Falls are in both Argentina and Brazil, and just up the river is...

We arrived in Tupiza at 9am the next day, after five hours on a train.  Tupiza is famous for being the place where Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid robbed their last train, before hiding out in a barn and being killed in the ensuing shoot-out.Unfortunately South Bolivia is not known for it´s smooth roads, so we discovered when we arrived that to get to the barn and the cemetary where they are supposedly burried (although they have now been exhumed to che...

The bus journey to Uyuni was on a small local bus, which we were told would have a toilet and from the photo´s looked pretty luxurious.  It wasn´t.  We were the only gringos and seemingly the only people who had washed in the last week!  After some coca-chewing locals were thrown out of our seats, we sat down to the 7 hour journey, freezing and on dirt tracks.  The ride was so rough we felt physically sick the whole way, which wasn...

Finally we got to leave La Paz. We left on an overnight bus to Sucre. Allison was ill the whole night before so we made sure we got a bus with a toilet. However when the bus set off some indingenous woman decided to park herself in the aisle next to Allison. She sat on the floor for almost the whole journey and smelt really bad, was a definate soap dodger. Rich tried to get her to move but she seemed like she was pretending she didnt understand. Was very lik...