After Mendoza we spent a night in Tucuman and then headed out with our guide Roxanna towards Cafayate. We stopped in the yungas, subtropical rainforest, to see the lush vegetation with misty clouds around the tree tops. As we drove away from there the landscape changed all of a sudden into desert mountains with clear blues skies and cacti everywhere. It was really amazing. We saw the Menhires, ancient stones in Tafi del Valle and stopped for a coffee at a cafe o...

After Buenos Aires we spent a day in Rosario where Che Guevara was born. We walked along the river front, saw the main sights and a couple of museums and then headed to Mendoza, the centre of Argentina`s wine district. Mendoza is lovely, as we arrived on the bus early in the morning we got our first view of the snow capped andes floating above the vineyards. After a day of relaxing we walked through the night market and went for our first winetasting at vines of...

We stayed in a hostel near the obelisco and on our first night we saw tango in the streets just round the corner. We spent a morning wandering round the posh cemetry where Eva Peron is buried. All of the crypts are very ornate. Sean was happy to find a tardis shaped one and lots of statues with impressive facial hair! We wandered round an art gallery and the zoo then up through Palermo, a district of restaurants and bars. The next day we finally sent post home a...

Arriving in Posadas was disappointing. We hadn`t really wanted to be there, we couldn`t get a bus to Buenos Aires for 3 days and it was raining a lot. Our hostel was cheap but dingy and when a cockroach ran across the floor we decided to move to somewhere nicer! The next day was really sunny, we headed to San Ignacio, an hour outside Posades to see the Jesuit ruins there. All the locals were drinking Yerbe Mate. It`s a bit like green tea but you have a goblet, a...