And so, to the final place on our trip, and our final blog. We arrived in Buenos Aires from Puerto Madryn to be greeted with beautiful sunshine and lovely warm days. Are you enjoying this in Blighty?! (Actually, by the time you read this we'll be back home so that'll wipe the smirks of our faces.) We spent four days in the city, and what a fab city it is. Both of us agree it's the best big city we've been to, for a number of reasons. The architecture, even though the vast majority of the city is 20th century, is [View Full Entry]

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We spent two days 'oop north' (as they say in Argentina) on the borders with Brazil and Paraguay, at the Iguazu Falls. We were going to bore you with statistics about how much water falls over the edge(s), how high they are, etc etc but we thought we'd just stick the pictures up instead. Suffice to say that viewing the waterfalls from afar (in Brazil) and anear (in Argentina) were fantastic sights. Apparently there are 275 waterfalls in total (doh! No more stats, honest), although how they counted them all, and how you determine what exactly constitutes one waterfall we haven't [View Full Entry]

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Over the course of three days, and 25 hours on buses, we made our way from El Calafate to Puerto Madryn on Argentina's east coast. On the first night after leaving El Calafate we stayed in a place called Perito Moreno (nothing to do with the glacier, and famous in our eyes for topping the "Most Boring Town We've Been To In South America" list - or anywhere come to think of it). Not only is there nothing to do there, but we were there on a Sunday, when even the church closes. (Not really of course, but that's what it [View Full Entry]

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Last Wednesday we crossed the border from Chile to Argentina, the last country on our trip. We are both looking forward to the delights it has to offer (including steak, wine, and Tango dancing lessons*). Our bus took us to a lovely little touristy town named El Calafate, on the shore of Lake Argentina, via a visit to one of the more well-known of the glaciers in the area, Perito Moreno. We expected the glacier to be an amazing sight, having seen photos and read our guidebook, and we weren't disappointed - it was a totally amazing sight. The front of [View Full Entry]

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Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. Actually, it's not that cold down here in Patagonia. When the sun shines, which it does quite alot because it's summertime, it is very pleasant. But when the wind blows, it really blows. After leaving Ensenada and the beautiful Lake District we spent a couple of days on Chiloe Island, a short ferry ride from Chile's mainland. It's a very nice place, nice and quiet, and because we were driving we were pleased to see that it only has one road, making it pretty difficult to get lost. Alot of the scenery is like Ireland, rolling hills and wooded countryside. [View Full Entry]

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Having just finished our little trip through Chile's "Lake District" we thought we'd show you a few pictures of our travels. The Lake District is a relatively small section of Chile (between Temuco and Puerto Montt if you have the time, inclination, or Google Earth on which to search them out) that features many lakes, mountains, and volcanoes. It was one area of our trip that we were particularly looking forward to and, despite rubbish weather for a day or two, it didn't disappoint us. To help us on our way through the area we hired a mighty Toyota Yaris (1000cc [View Full Entry]

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... to give it it's full name. We had three great days in Chile's capital city. The weather was sunny and hot, the food was good, the public transport system works, and the sights were fab. The sprawling mass of the city lies on a flat plain surrounded by snow-capped and un-snow-capped mountains, some of which you can just about see in the photos. There are two large hills in 'downtown' Santiago, the largest of which (San Cristobel) you can ascend on a fenicular railway or in a cable car, or walk up (we chose to go up on the railway [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone This is our first entry for a little while, during which time we have managed to get ourselves from just over the Chilean border (San Pedro de Atacama) almost all the way to Santiago. We are currently in Valparaiso, a busy town on the Pacific coast that is also a bustling port. First things first. What was that brown gunk on Bridget's finger in Potosi? Nothing to do with navals or nostrils. We don't know the techinical term for it is, but "silver goo" is what it was. 40% pure silver. It's how Bolivia ships it's silver to the [View Full Entry]

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One of the 'must do' things in Bolivia is a tour across the 'Salar de Uyuni', the largest and highest salt flats in the world. It's also a good way of getting into Chile because the 4x4 vehicles go cross-country from Bolivia into Chile which is much quicker than going by bus along the paved (or unpaved) roads. So, on Saturday morning we met our fellow gringos (from Spain, South Korea, Poland, and the USA) and our guide, Javier, and bundled all our worldly possessions on to the roof of Javier's ageing Toyota Landcruiser. Unbelievably, for the second time on our [View Full Entry]

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After a fleeting overnight stop in Oruro (currently the holder of “Most Boring Town” in our South America Awards) we arrived in Potosi. Potosi would be a pretty unremarkable place if it wasn’t for the silver mines that created it and boosted the Spanish economy by a shedload of pesetas a few hundred years ago. The mine was ‘closed’ by the Bolivian government in the 1980s, since which time the mines have been worked by ‘co-operative’ miners, but when Jez asked him to give him some of his silver he wasn’t very co-operative at all. (Boom Boom!) Many companies offer tours [View Full Entry]

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