We wake up, maybe sometime around 7 or 8am. Breakfast is two croissants, tostadas and bread. We watch the countryside pass by, becoming more and more tropical as we go. The landscape is so vastly different to Patagonian and north western Argentina, we feel like we have crossed into another country entirely overnight. The soil has changed to a deep red colour. Houses are often little more than wooden shacks in the long grass and trees. We arrive into Iguaçu aro...

From El Calafate our Aerolineas Argentina flight leaves on time but our return flight jips us on the snacks - this time just a ham and cheese sandwich and another of those chewy damn dulce de leche biscuits. If have eaten enough ham and cheese sandwiches to last a lifetime. And the drinks are only a cup, rather than the whole bottle we were given on the way south to Patagonia. The flight gets a bit turbulent as we descend and our landing is a bit hairy, it seems ...

After two early starts in El Chalten, we sleep in again. We have a late breakfast and check out of dorm room, which given it's the off season; we've had to ourselves for our entire stay. We spend the day chilling in the big open loft of the hostel, doing journal entries, postcards etc. Our bus picks us up at 5.30pm and by 6pm we are on the road back to El Calafate. We stare out at the scenery passing by, getting one last look for now, as this part of Argentina ...

In El Calafate we are up early and walk to the bus station where we trade our bus voucher for tickets and change our return tickets for an open return. Our bus fills up and leaves at 8am. I can't believe the bus is full and it's the off season down in this part of the world! The drive is scenic and we arrive into El Chalten around 11am, now that the road is paved the trip is much quicker than it used to be. The bus stops at the park headquarters and we are given...

We get up early, pack our bags and have breakfast. We had a dorm mate join us on our last night. We are leaving the hostel by 9am and get a bus to the main bus terminal with our bus driver showing us where we get off and can get a bus to the airport from. At the bus terminal we get cama seats to Iguacu for the 30th, the same day as our flight back to Buenos Aires, to save us having to spend a night in Buenos Aires. We leave what should be plenty of time between ...