Buen dia As I think we mentioned in the last postcard from Cafayate, we have headed north to a little town called Humahuaca which is about two hours from the Bolivian border. Not a lot here to be honest, but the town is nestled in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a valley created by the Rio Grande. A very beatiful area with amazing rock formations and colours. The last few days have been spent wandering around the town and a half day trip to a little town to the south called Uquia which has a walking trail which takes you close to some striking red/pink rock formations. Tomorrow we leave our much loved Argentina and cross the border to Bolivia. For our (and maybe yours if you are interested) we will write a summary of the best loved parts/things about Argentina within the next few days. Shane and Sarah OUR SUMMARY OF ARGENTINA First and foremost are the highlights for us from this incredible country and definitely the favourite so far.... - Buenos Aires - what a wonderful city, filled with streets of amazing architecture at every turn, fabulous cuisine (anything you want including some really great sushi that we experienced), pretty plazas, crazy street markets, posh boutiques, cheap leather (gosh I wish I could have stuffed some leather boots into my backpack!), young people with mullet hairdos (like in Spain), staying with our host family for a week and being emersed in the Castellano way of life and of course doing our two week spanish course and feeling like we were really living in this vibrant, lively city - Iguazu Falls - Beautiful scenery and some big falls (although at the time there was a bit of a water crisis so some of the falls were non existant) that we could compare to Vic Falls and Angel Falls. Tick the box! - Peninsula Valdes - Treated here to the incredible experience of whale watching and staying on a rough and rugged coast....felt like we were a long way away from everything. - Ushuaia - The southern most town in the world blanketed in snow and located on the Beagle Chanel. Here we enjoyed walking to the end of the world (seriously we did and we have photos to prove it!), taking a boat ride out on the Chanel joined by some very friendly seals, and of course huskie dog sledding....what more can you ask for? - El Calafate - Making some great friends (Chris, Volker and Fabian), getting up close and personal (and very cold) with the Perito Moreno Glacier, ice skating on an actual frozen lake with some friendly dogs and staying in an amazing hostel which had heated floors and an incredible lake view.....it was very hard to leave this beautiful place. - Bariloche - Getting some photos of the lakes from the cable car viewing point which is rated as one of the top 20 views in the world....and it was very beautiful. Also a huge highlight here for Shane was ordering a 500g piece of steak and demolishing the lot....MEN!!!! - The North West (Salta, Cafayate, Humahuaca) we never really realised how much desert this country had...and never expected to see large cacti plants/trees. The colourful and artistic rock formations were eye catching against the ever blue skies that we were blessed with every day.....we also got to top up our fading tans here. By the way, its a pretty huge country and has taken a while to travel around. As per Brazil, we thought we would summarise our journey so you can get a handle on the size of ths place: Buenos Aires to Iguazu - 18 hours by bus Iguazu to Puerto Madryn (via BA) - 36 hours by bus PM to Ushuaia (via Rio Gallegos) - 29 hours by bus Ushuaia to El Calafate - 1 hour by plane El Calafate to Bariloche - 1.5 hrs by plane Bariloche to Pucon (Chile) - 10 hrs by bus Pucon to Santiago - 10 hrs by bus Santiago to San Pedro de Atacama - 23 hrs by bus SP de A - Salta (Argentina) - 13 hrs by bus Salta to Cafayate - 4 hrs by bus Cafayate to Humahuaca - 7.5 hrs by bus Humahuaca - La Quiaca (border town) - 2 hrs by bus So as you can see, its hard work being a traveller! We have absolutely loved Argentina. The food, the wine, the incredible and diverse landscape, the ease of travelling and most importantly the unbelievable friendly people who always initiate conversation and whose faces light up when we say we are from New Zealand (they all know Lomu and the All Blacks). We would happily return to this country to holiday and even to live for a year or so. For those of you who haven't visited Argentina, we suggest you get here as soon as possible! Love Shane and Sarah