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...

The neverending journey We left Arequipa at 7.30am, bus to Tacna (border down from Peru to Chile) and crossed the intense border crossing with numerous bag searches, we even had to dump some jam as it was classed as dangerous! We arrived in Arica the other side of the border at around 6pm and tried to get to San Pedro, however buses did not go there so we went to Calama, which we had never heard of before but it was close so it got our vote. An overnight bus...

Buses and RoundaboutsWe took yet another overnight bus journey to the `White City´ of Arequipa. For some reason the town planners of Nasca decided to put the bus station on the side of a (half-built) roundabout with no cover, which made for a rather cold wait for our bus at midnight (which was only an hour late to be fair). We went for the economy version so were rather cramped for the 9 or so hours it took (they said 7 - not far off!) as well as having to ...