San Carlos de BarilocheWe jumped aboard another coach & headed south to the cooler climates of Patagonia. As it was a 18hrs coach trip we thought we´d spoil ourselves & splash out an extra $65 pesos (just over £10) for luxury seats.... & boy they´d give a first class airline a run for its money...3 meals including wine, 3 of the latest English movies & bus bingo!! Bariloche or the Lake District as its also known is set in the middle of Nahuel H...

We turned up at Hostel Lao in Mendoza which quickly became one of our favourite locations we'd visited so far ! We made the decision to stay for 5 nights (more than most) with the idea of chillaxing before the heavy trekking begins. We've made lots of new friends with fellow travellers & also with the staff who would pretty much bend over backwards to help you with anything, including the two dogs Bambina & Astor. It also h...

Buenos Aires - Part 2 A must see in B.A is a Futbol match, I am not a big football fan...but I loved it!! A group of us went to see Boca Juniors vs Arsenal FC (nothing to do with the English Premier League team). They advise tourist to book your tickets through a tour operator for safety and we'd heard lots of crazy stories of riots etc so I was a bit apprehensive before the match. A bus picked us up (about 30 of us) outside Millhouse Hostel and we all headed to...

Buenos Aires Part One We left the nice architecture, friendly Uruguayians & blistering winds of Montevideo & headed for Buenos Aires via the romantic town of Colonia de Sacremento, a small Uruguayian Yacht harbor. We stopped here for a mid afternoon coffunch (coffee & lunch), viewed the beautiful scenary of cobbled streets, excellent restaurants & craft shops. The sunshine & ocean breeze just added to the romance to this lovely day, before se...