We travelled for 21 hours on two buses to reach Mendoza, although we are now level with Santiago so will have no more long trips in South America. Mendoza is a very beautiful city which has a very distinct European feel about it with lots of cafes, restaurants, parks and a whole heap of wine shops. Mendoza is the heart of Argentina´s wine region and wine has pretty much dominated our stay. We have spent a couple of days wandering round the town and have been out...

We left Salta on a (relatively) short bus ride to the small town of Cafayate and after a cheap evening cooking our own risotto and polishing off 3 bottles of wine with Gemma we set off for a walk to the seven waterfalls that are nearby. We didn`t actually make it though, having walked for a couple of hours, with yet another canine walking companion, we reached the river and decided that was far enough as we would have had to walk for 3 more hours to reach the wat...

We arrived into Argentina for the 4th time on our trip along with Geeçmma and Eddie from La Paz and Jez, Garrad and Luke who we had met in San Pedro, travelling in such a big group we managed to get a discount at our hostel and then immediately headed out for some Argentinain steak, one of the great things about Argentina is being able to go out for a good meal at approaching midnight. We then spent the following day trying to resolve camera problems and then si...

We started our Bolivian blog with wow it's cheap, well Chile is the opposite, the most expensive place we have been since Brazil. Having ummed and arrred as to whether we should travel south to Santiago through Chile or Argentina, after a few hours here we had decided Argentina it would be. However, the bus to Salta in northern Argentina didn't go until Sunday morning so we had three days to get a little taste of the Atacama desert, the most arid in the world you...

We arrived in Uyuni late at night where Gemma, Eddie (Edwina) and Ollie from La Paz had been for a few days having been to a rave in the salt flats! Gemma had sorted out a tour so we checked out of our pretty grubby little hostel and left on a tour that morning, there really wasn't much to do in the town itself. The two and a bit day tour was amazing, we have seen some of the most extraordinary landscapes in this desert at the far western edge of Bolivia. Ongoing...