Getting there and away is often as dramatic as being there."It's really just three kicks of the footy between places – it’s the border crap that takes so long!" . Our three Aussie lads from the previous day’s wine tour were on the same bus. They had not been to sleep at all in true Aussie backpacker fashion and discussed their night’s antics on the bus. We had only had a few hours sleep ourselves. Scores of cars, trucks and buses were ...

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...

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...