Day 296 - Puerto Iguazu and Argentina sum up - Tuesday 7th August 2012 We arrived into Puerto Iguazu and our first job was to find the hostel, usually we (Soph) has the road name, directions, local landmarks, weather charts and star guide formations to help us get to the hostel!! This time we only had the name of the road. It was still pretty early so we grabbed our bags off the bus and looked for someone to ask, luckily there was a guy outside selling some fu...

Day 279 to 287 - Buenos Aires -Saturday 21st to Sunday 29th July 2012 It took us under an hour to fall in love with Buenos Aires; everything the guide book says and what people tell you about the city is true - it's beautiful and full of energy and character! We arrived on our night bus from Mendoza at 11am and made our way to the local bus stop to catch the number twenty two bus to San Telmo. The bus arrived and with quite a queue behind us, we jumped on and ...

Day 275, 276, 277, 278 - Mendoza - Tuesday 17th, Wednesday 18th, Thursday 19th, Friday 20th July 2012 We arrived in at 9.30am very cranky, cold and tired after our rubbish bus journey but once got to our lovely hostel, Lao, and had a cup of coffee and hot shower all seemed well with the world again! We headed straight out for some lunch; we were starving after not having eaten anything but chocolate and crisps for the previous twenty four hours! We made our w...

Day 270, 271, 272, 273, 274 - San Martin, Bariloche & Ski Sunday! - Thursday 12th, Friday 13th, Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th, Monday 16th July 2012 After breakfast we bid farewell to our lovely hostel and owners (by way of a big hug and a kiss) and got on our Argentina bound bus. The scenery was lovely, snow covered mountains and Christmas trees everywhere - it wasn't long before we were both humming Christmas songs, very funny given that it's July! After an...