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...

"Breakfast is at 7.30 if you please" read the note handed to us by a very harried and stressed looking Bolivian young lad. The funny thing was that it had taken him ten minutes to, firstly, try to tell us in Spanish, then, when that did not work, turn his computer on, go into “google translate” and write out the message and give it to us. He could have been getting the breakfast ready instead of stressing about how to tell us we were slightly early at...

Did we say quote, "things are looking up?". At dinner last night, while not understanding much Spanish, watching the TV news, it was painfully obvious the violence over the fuel was stepping up, with protests in all major centres, and we even saw a small rally here in Rurre.Then when we called to collect our laundry it was not ready due to last nights storm and the power being off. So on the way back to the Hotel, Avan steps over a drain, hits a smooth wet piece ...

Frantic phone calls to Air Amazonas office early Tuesday morning confirm flights are again running. The tour office advised on Monday that they may have to fly to a nearby town of Reyes, and our Pampas tour will pick us up there, but on arrival at the airport we are told Rurrenabaque as per the schedule. To add to our confusion, we believe our flight is called (right time, but in Spanish) and we are checked through the gates, however on getting onto the tarmac o...