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Our first task upon arriving was to sort out the skydiving! we had arranged a provisional booking with one particular company .. but the hostel allowed us to make a concrete booking with another company through them and it was even cheaper .. result!! Surprisingly neither Silke or I were in the slightest bit nervous the night before ... we just tried to resist the temptation to get too drunk on Caipirinhas at the hostel bar! Even in the morning, when we were on our way to the airport, it hadn't quite sunk in that we were about to jump out of a plane 10,000 feet in the air!!! The plane was tiny .. and in order to get our takehome DVDs they needed to send 2 cameramen up on it with us ... which ... read more

Iguassu Falls Well, we weren't so lucky with the weather for our visit to the Brazilian side. Like fools we hoped for the best and headed out in just our T-Shirts, and got absolutely soaked through! Luckily seeing the Brazilian side doesn't require anywhere near as much time as the Argentinian side ... you get more of an overview, whereas on the Arg side you get to go in, around and even under a lot more. We got a great view of Garganta del Diablo from the Brazilian side though ... you can see the shape of the falls .. and the smaller cascades that make it up. That night we headed back to the Argentinian side to grab our bags ... before heading back over the border to Brazil (i know!!!) to catch the ... read more

Rosario We got a night bus directly from Montevideo .. and the only real event was realising halfway through the journey that we were due to arrive at 4am ... we'd counted on arriving much later, and had to call the hostel when we arrived to see if a) they were open and b) if they had space. We ended up crashing out for what was left of the night in seperate girls and boys dorm rooms, before being able to check in to our room later on that day! The main reason for going to Rosario in the first place was to skydive! So on the first day, we booked the trip and then relaxed in and around the hostel .. finishing off the day with full stomachs after going to an all (the ... read more

El Calafate I arrived in El Calafate after a pretty gruelling 30 odd hour bus ride, which went from Bariloche .. across to Comodoro Rivadavia on the Atlantic coast, down to Rio Gallegos (almost at the southernmost border with Chile) and then back up to Calafate. Managed to check into the hostel I wanted which was lucky! On my first day there I went for a wander around a small nature reserve on the edge of town (Lago Nimez or something like that). At the point where the reserve met the lake shoreline I ducked under the fence and spent a good few hours walking along that. Very windy, it really blew the cobwebs away :-) The town of El Calafate itself is quite small, with only around 5,000 inhabitants. It's really geared towards the ... read more

Buenos Aires South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires By theKirton April 3rd 2007 Matt Kirton The day before leaving from Salta we found out about the storms in Buenos Aires, and that the cloudy weather would last at least until the weekend (another 4/5 days away). So, the weather wasn't too great for exploring the city at first. Still, I was able to pack quite a lot into the 8 days that I spent there including drinking .. drinking and, er .. drinking. :-) In between all that I went to see Boca Juniors play, had a Tango lesson and saw an amazing Tango show ... wandered around in Recoleta Cemetery, went to the cinema and saw a lo... read more