Wonderful Salta! We loved it here! It feels very different to the rest of Argentina, perhaps as its nearer the Bolivian border, but its much less western and more ´community like´ even though it's a fair sized town, plus we felt safe, met some great people, did some good tours and finally both felt well enough to enjoy 3 meals a day and a long overdue night out partying! When we first arrived we headed out to get a feel for the place and at the main square ra...

We had high hopes for Mendoza, being the Argentinean Vino Tinto Wine Region and all, but it didn't really live up to expectations and although we enjoyed our stay here it has been one of our least favourite places.... Although the Hostel was fantastic!Mendoza was described as this beautiful place with tree strewn wide streets, all flat and perfect after a volcanic eruption years ago but it felt like a wannabe city to us and was kind of scruffy and dirty! We met a...

THE most picturesque place we have been by far! Snow capped mountains of the Andes, wonderful blue stretching lakes, cute little wooden hutted chocolate shops, tea rooms and restaurants and lots of posing St Bernards! It was quite touristy but we did really love it there, it felt more like Switzerland than Argentina though! The only negative about the place was our hostel. We picked it because it was a smaller hostel and Sven (like the grandad he is!) likes the...

Puerto Madryn and Pennisula Valdes After BA we ventured down south to Puerto Madryn with the sole intention of going to Pennisula Valdes to do Whale spotting - one of Svens ´must do things!´. As soon as we arrived, we jumped straight onto a tour to the pennisula and kitted out in our hats and scarves we ventured out to sea to spot those Southern Rights! The tour didnt fail to disappoint we saw so many whales and some of their babies - it was absolutely brill...

So we knew it was going to happen sooner or later and we probably really didnt want it to happen here but we got sick! Tummy bugs and colds hit us and it over shadowed our stay in BA slightly. Lets just say we didnt really experience the infamous nightlife it had to offer! However on the days when we are feeling better we managed to visit the Evita Balcony, grave and Museum, see the stadium in La Boca, watched street tango in colourful Caminito, visit the Recoll...