Our final journey in South America turned out to be completely different kettle of fish from what we had been used to. After the disappointment of no skydiving and having our palmtop stolen in Cordoba we boarded a night bus to take us to Mendoza. We arrived with no problems and well in time to catch our connecting bus just across the border to Santiago. The trouble was the border at this point was closed due to strike action! We HAD to get to Santiago before 8am...

We arrived in Cordoba with all hopes of skydiving. we booked into a cheap hostel and awaited news from the skydive company for predicted weather the next day. Whilst waiting we headed out to an internet cafe to catch up with our friends and relatives. Sadly whilst we were writing an email our palm computer which have had for less than a month was stolen from the desk right in front of us by a guy who covered it up with a magazine, drew our attention elsewhere an...

Arrived safe and well after nearly 48 hours on a bus. Its just nice to be warm again! More to follow...

Anyone visiting El Calafate cannot leave without visiting one of the world's only advancing glaciers. This was the precise reason that we were here so we did not waste any time before visiting the Perito Moreno glacier. This ice flow advances along two valleys where it meets the lake. It then moves along at approximately 2m a day until it meets the faster flowing river. This means that from time to time huge sheets of ice fall of the face of the glacier into the ...

It was time to meet up with Kieran and Charlotte again who we had organised to do a bit of trekking so finding out that they had already got to Puerto Natales before us and sorted us out somewhere to stay came as a bit of a relief following our arduous ridiculously long day bus ride up from Ushuaia. After initial greetings and quite a few beers on our first night it wrote off the idea of going to Torres del Paine national park the next day so we had some time to ...