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Quilmes and Cafayate

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Another sleeper bus up to Tucuman in the NorthWest of Argentina and a change of scenery (beginning of cacti lands). Tucuman is the biggest city in the NorthWest region, but we didn´t stop there, instead getting a taxi / tour through the Calchaquies valleys to Quilmes and Cafayate. [read on]

Missing photos from Mendoza and around

Friday, April 27th, 2007

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Mendoza and around

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
After a flying visit back in Buenos Aires (about 5 hours) we caught another overnight bus (our 5th in one and a half weeks) to San Juan (about 200km north of Mendoza). The main reason for coming here was to visit ... [Continue reading this entry]

Uruguay

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
After our unexpected day in Porto Alegre, we were on yet another overnight bus, this time to Montevideo, and back to being able to at least mostly understand the language. [Continue reading this entry]

Porto Alegre and around

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Yet another overnight bus sees us in Porto Alegre and heading out to Canela.  The plan being to visit a couple of national parks, only we hit a Chilean style information problem – you had ... [Continue reading this entry]

Curitiba and around

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Next stop Brazil (for longer than an afternoon this time & with the correct stamps in our passport!)  Slummed it on a semi-cama bus (no whiskey/blankets/pillows...or sleep!), but wasn´t too bad (you still have more leg room than on ... [Continue reading this entry]

Iguazu

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Another overnight bus journey sees us arrive in Puerto Iguazu to torrential rain (getting quite good at travelling by luxury bus though - the whiskey just before settling down to sleep helps a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Buenos Aires

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

After a lot of time in and around mountains it was time to finally hit the big city (or "the jungle" as the hotel tout called Buenos Aires).  We decided to go Super Cama which is about the poshiest bus ... [Continue reading this entry]

Bariloche & around

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

After our side trip to Puerto Madryn it was back to Barlioche for the arrival of my little sister & her other half! It was quite exciting going to the airport to met them and to catch up on the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Peninsular Valdes & Trelew

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

We took a `side trip´from Bariloche to Puerto Madryn for a couple of days - it only took 12 hours on the bus from B to PM!

The main reason to going to PM was to go to Peninsular Valdes, which is ... [Continue reading this entry]