Long distance buses In Argentina are good, very good.Now, in Australia they are fairly good too, but here's the thing, nobody takes them seriously as a mode of transport. While Australians will think nothing of getting in their car and driving for 20 hours straight, mention a 20 hour bus ride and eyes roll and the comment "are you mad?!" often follows.Argentineans take their buses seriously and all walks of live love and use them. They are double decker and a...

The quest to see Argentina's Petrified Forest began with one of our daughter’s giving us a Lonely Planet Coffee table type book last Christmas (thank you Shashana!) with 1,000 "must do" adventures of a unique type. Avan thought he would like to try and get to see the forest but after researching it we found it was on the East Coast, when we had planned to travel up the west side of Argentina and go into Chile from there. While we were in Ushuaia, we dis...

Imagine the loudest thunderclap you have ever heard - the growling noise you get that it is about to happen, then the massive KER BOOM! Imagine, though, with the growling noise also hearing a massive creaking sound, the noise of massive forces squeezing together. This is the sounds of the  Glaciar Perito Moreno , 80 km from El Calafate, trying to squeeze between 2 rock mountain headlands as it heads to Lago Argentino (Lake Argentina).This stunning blue-hued gla...

A breaking news story:Tuesday 7th December Antarctic Cruise Ship limps into PortHit by a 30 ft wave and 90 km an hour winds that damaged the engine, broke the bridge window and damaged electrical and communication facilities.This was NOT OUR cruise ship! It could well have been. It reminds us that Antarctica is still a wilderness frontier and that the Drake passage has the roughest seas in the world. We are so thrilled that we have been able to see a part of this...

"You must have been there when the riots were happening! Did you fly out before they closed the airport?"We were persevering with a 12 hour bus trip from Ushuaia to Rio Gallegos and chatting with fellow passengers as we do, and while discussing that in the early part of our adventure, we were in Rio, the above comment was made. Not knowing what he was talking about we “googled” at our next stop and came up with the headlines:“Violence Rocks Rio ...