Archive for the ‘Argentina’ Category

What a grand old place is Buenos Aires…

Buenos Aires; we had gone full circle. After leaving here 5 weeks earlier, we had made it back in one piece with many more adventure stories to share. After finding our way to our last B&B, Palermo Viejo in the district of the same name, we got ourselves settled and showered, and headed out to [...]

Iguazu Falls; Mother Nature at her most impressive…

They are spectacular, there is no denying it. To find out all about Iguazu Falls, click here… The bit we loved the best though was the getting wet part – this was achieved by being in a boat and going straight under two of the falls. No doubt they were probably the lamest two on [...]

Salta; what a great place to R&R…

and didn´t we need it… After our border dramas, all we wanted to do was curl up in a feotal position and sleep! Actually, it wasn´t that bad really, but our bodies were craving the need to park somewhere for a few days, not have to pack a bag, and do some laundry and generally [...]

4 hrs to go 100 metres…

Well wasn´t that fun! NOT… We left Tupiza at approx 9am and got to the Bolivian border at approx 10:15am. Working out what to do and in what order was not easy. Some of the border police saw us walking around a little lost, so directed us to a queue, the going-into Argentina queue. It [...]

Buenos Aires, in the heat…

Blimey! To step out of that plane, after 24 hours of flying into 36oC heat was enough to make you want to turn around there and then and go back from whenst you came. But we managed to survive it OK, but only just. Fortunately the taxi man who collected us had decent air-con so [...]