Tucuman & Salta 3rd August to 8th August 2006 We arrive in Tucuman feeling pretty tired after the lack of sleep on the overnight bus from Mendoza. Our first impressions of Tucuman is that it's a pretty dusty and tired looking old town. We get a taxi and the good news is that the cheap place we have chosen has a double room out the back. On closer inspection of the room it feels like we've been incarcerated but the place has got character (ie it's dar...

Mendoza 31st June - 3rd July 2006 Some people may question the logic of our return to Santiago, since we have been there already and didn't like the place much at all!. However, we would argue that one of the highlights of South America has got to be the numerous journey you can do on the bus through the Andes and hence our reason for returning. This strategy is a little dodgy seeing as it's currently the middle of winter and the high altitude pass from Sa...

Sunday 9th to Saturday 15th July 2006 The usual barest minimum of sleep on the long overnight bus from Montevideo sees us arrive at about 8 in the morning. The weather in Cordoba is very nearly warm. Cordoba is another nice old spanish colonial town with the token grid pattern, nice church cum cathedral and several good looking squares. We check into a hostel, have a little walk around the old town district and get a red tour bus to see the sights. ...

We arrive in Buenos Aires bleary eyed from another overnight bus journey to discover that the first two hostels we fancied were full. Fortunately the third had a free double room and actually looked nicer than the other two anyway! Our "double" room actually turned out to have a triple bunk bed as well as a double bed, which was rather strange, but we werent complaining. We were determined not to succumb to sleep and head out for a walking tour of the city...

Puerto Madryn 23rd June - 26th June 2006 The overnight bus service from Bariloche to Puerto Madryn is excellent. 13hrs go by and we get a small amount of sleep as well as loads of food and drink. We arrive in a dark, damp and cold Puerto Mardyn at 7.00am and after wandering the streets for what seems like hours we book into the El Gualicho hostel. We go straight to bed until noon trying to catch up on lost sleep. We head down to the sea front ...