6 Days in Mendoza We spent quite a long time in Mendoza by our standards. There seemed to be masses to do and luckily we found ourselves a very cheap but good hostel about 10 minutes walk from the main plaza. We spent quite a lot of time wondering round the city centre, shopping (they have C&A and Etam!) and drinking coffee/beer in one of the numerous pavement cafes. Although it`s a city and is very busy we found there to be a really relaxed environment and ...

Anti-tourismWe arrived in La Rioja to discover they don`t exactly welcome tourists with open arms. We`d plannned to stay for a couple of days and do a wine tour but found there were no hostels or even cheap guest houses, no wine tours and no tourist information(it was closed and looked like it hadn´t been open for years). We quickly decided to move on to Mendoza (where they definately did wine tours) but found we had a 9 hour wait in temperatures of 42 degr...

Micro-climates and Julio Cesar IIAfter leaving Salta and heading out on an 8am bus we found ourselves in the alien to tourists San Miguel De Tucuman, not sure why it has no tourists as its amazing, Los Yungas within 30mins drive and 11 micro-climates around the city within 30km! The plan was a simple stopover and head to a spa town called Rio Hondo but after seeing the tourist information office we decided to stay and headed to a hostel close by. Los Yungas (the ...

Leather Seats!We arrived in Salta yesterday afternoon after a journey on the most amazing bus ever! It had two floors like a double decker but had loads of leg room and leather seats!! They also showed a fairly decent English speaking film and had free soft drinks. It only took a few hours to get to Salta but we thoroughly enjoyed it. We also had front row seats!!SaltaSalta is a fairly large city with a massive main plaza and a pink cathedral! It`s got a really g...

Argentina! Another day another country! We had an amazing bus journey (8hrs) from Chile to Argentina via desert and mountains. Luckily the border control wasn`t nearly as strict as Peru to Chile and didn`t insist on searching our bags every few hours (no joke) but it did take an hour and a half for our entire bus to get checked and stamped. We drove through some very changeable desert, from vast open rocky spaces to colourful mountians and volcanoes. The scenery...