Mendoza is right over on the other side fof Argentina from Buenos Aires so we set off in the evening on the overnight bus and arrived at our hostel bright and early in the morning. The first thing that hit us is that Mendoza is hot! Very hot! It is the first place we have been in South America where they have a Siesta, and you can see why! Mendoza is Argentina´s wine capital, it has lovely wide streets with trees and green everywhere, it feel completely safe an...

It´s fabulous here!! We would gladly stay for longer but the vineyards are a-calling...We have spent 6 days here and have been all over the city. We have seen the Evita museum (did you know she was only 33 when she died?!), visited her grave (Catholic´s certainly know how create a spectacular graveyard), visited an art gallery with works by all the famous artists I can name, watched a tango show (a little nervously as we were in the front row, but luckily there...

Salta, Argentina. 27-28th Sept We stopped off to camp beside the river in Salta, where we both signed up for white water rafting and zip-lining. The rafting was great fun - our guide was not content to take us through the rapids facing forwards but insisted on making our raft do a 360 spin through the rapids, thus ensuring the maximum amount of river crashing over us. We dutifully carried out his instructions as we didn´t know the difference between the instruct...

Iguassu Falls 21-23rd Sept. Amazing - Kate you weren´t wrong! We visited the falls from both the Brazilian and Argentinean sides and both were stunning. The falls are absolutely vast - more than 250 falls of varying sizes. Every corner you turn there is another, more amazing view - we took a RIDICULOUS number of photos, but don´t worry - we´ll only put a few on the blog, the rest we will bore you with when we are back. We both called our parents from the falls...