A little later than we had planned and $100 short from the first bus ticket that we happened to miss, we arrived in Salta at 7am, nothing short of delirious after the 18 hour drive from Mendoza. The city of Salta has only become a tourist destination in the past few years but everywhere around you one can witness the area embracing the tourism industry and trying to snag a piece of the action. We were greeted in the terminal by a number of hostel owners trying to...

A little later than we had planned and $100 short from the first bus ticket that we happened to miss, we arrived in Salta at 7am, nothing short of delirious after the 18 hour drive from Mendoza. The city of Salta has only become a tourist destination in the past few years but everywhere around you one can witness the area embracing the tourism industry and trying to snag a piece of the action. We were greeted in the terminal by a number of hostel owners trying ...

If there is something I am truly proud of so far on this trip it is making it from Manaus, Brazil to El Calafate, Argentina in 2 days. Shanil would even applaud how efficiently we navigated our way from the middle of the Amazonian jungle to southern Argentina in less than 48 hours. It took 3 flights and 1 long bus ride to trade flooded forests for glaciers, but we did it without a hiccup. Granted, if there would have been the slightest deviation or delay in the s...

After a bundle of long and tiresome days traveling by bus we finally arrived at the famous Iguazu falls. We arrived in the evening and sought out the closest economical accomodations that we could. Just a few blocks up the road there was a hostel that had exactly three beds left. Now, we were so tired and weary from traveling that we would have settled for a closet space to sleep for the night, however, we didn´t think they would actually give us one. The ro...

We made it!!! After a day and a half of travelling, we landed in Buenos Aires - sweaty, tired, and clearly very thirsty. We made our way to our first hostel, the Downtown Mate. It was quite the hole in the wall, colourful and crumbling, filled with enthusiastic Brazilians, and so hot and humid even the walls seemed to break out in an uncomfortable sweat. In light of the heat and humidity, we did what any two Canadian backpackers would do - found the closest res...