At breakfast in our hostel we were delighted to hear some Aussie accents. It had been awhile.Amy and Sarah are a couple of 21 year old girls from Adelaide and we discussed travels over our breakfast, then went our separate ways - us to the bus stop to catch a local bus to the Argentinean side of Iguassu, and Amy and Sarah to get ready for the hostel mini bus transfer that was to take them to the falls also.On arrival at the National Park headquarters we were brow...

 With some six hours to kill before our 20 hour overnight bus to Puerto Iguazu, the amazing and famous waterfalls in the North of Argentina, we stored our packs at the ferry terminal and set off on foot to see some of the sights we had missed, when in Buenos Aires earlier in the week.Firstly we found Luna Park. This intrigued us given Australia has a Luna Park, but this one is quite different – it is a sport and shows stadium (not a fun park) – a ver...

Buenos Aries bus station has 269 ticket sales booths.We know this because we walked up and down them for three hours trying to work out who was going to sell us our tickets for the 20 hour journey to Iguassu Falls, for travel later the following week. Buses in Argentina are something else again. Choices abound, especially on the route to the falls. "Do you want to recline 70%, 90% or a full 100%, maybe you would like wine and champagne served to ease the stresses...

3rd January has to go down as a BAAAAAAAD travel day - one of the worst.First bad thing was we found we had a US of A bloke doing the same taxi, bus package as us. Now, we have met lots of nice Americans when travelling, but as a rule would rather travel without them in the vicinity! The "Lanky Yank" was opinionated and naive and although he said he had been travelling in South America for six months every year for the last ten years, he had only slightly more of...

Red, red, wine…Ah, Argentina makes it so well! - and particularly around Mendoza. We have learned to ask nicely in Spanish "por favour dos Vino tinto?"  - please, two red wine.   We got off our overnight, and late arriving bus, and caught a cab straight to the hostel we had booked (Hostel Suites Mendoza). Wonderfully, our room was ready so being late arriving in to Mendoza already did not seem so much of a problem. Our first mission after showering (all...