Famous for its wine we instantly loved this city! Placed next to the Andes in a desert the views are spectacular.... everywhere you look! We stayed at a cool little hostel called Chimbas which was like staying with your mates for 4days, great hostel and cool people, booking a wine tour for the following day was essential and there are 1200 wineries to visit....we only managed 2!!. Now.... when the wine is as cheap as a pound a bottle it was fairly obvious the fir...

28th September. San Carlos de Bariloche, well placed in an area known as the Lake District. This time the coach journey was made easier thanks to some red wine (its only 1 pound a bottle, and good!!). Leaving the whales of Puerto Madryn we woke up 15 hours later, opened the curtains and were greeted with snow capped mountains reflected in the motionless lakes below them. The buildings had turned from painted concrete slabs to stunning wooden cabins surrounded by ...

What a place, famous for its whales and Wales (we will explain later!) it doesnt disappoint! Another long coach journey later and we arrived, racking up about 65hours on coaches over the last few weeks!! The coaches are luxury, but reality hit when speaking with a group of Germans at the hostel explained why our coach from Brazil: Sao Paulo to Iguazu got stopped and searched by armed police 4 times; apparently only a week earlier a coach on the same route was hij...

Leaving the 30degree heat of the Iguazu Falls behind we awoke after 17hours in Buenos Aires! It was so cold you could see you breath and the dull surroundings of the bus station made me wonder if I had awoken in Russia! We had pre-booked a hostel and a short taxi ride later we arrived, it was not as expected and as always not like the pictures from their website! The strange long haired male owner looked identical to those you find in the American "road trip...

Tuesday 16th went to plan, all be it a day later! At 9:40am our 28hours of coach journeys began YEY!! 6 hour bus ride took us from Paraty to Sao Paulo, the hidden capital of Brazil. Worried that we hadnt booked any tickets for the next leg and thoughts of spending a night in the vast a dangerous city we ran to the ticket desk and got tickets for the 20:00 bus, 4hours waiting in the bus station passed quickly thanks to an English couple Kelly and Jay we met. 12pm ...