When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio...de Janeiro......... At the Copa, Copacabana....music and passion were always in fashion.... Yes sad and cheesy but I could not get those songs out of my head on the trip up (even more frustrating I couldn’t remember any more words!!!) they just kept going around and around. So there I was with gorgeous coast line on one side, beautiful rainforest on the other humming/singing away to myself (and to Matt - probably much to his annoyance!) Guess I was excited about Rio.... First impressions weren’t the greatest. It was raining and Rio isn’t really a beautiful looking city. We stayed in Ipanema (yes also famous from another famous song...) which was nice - it is next to Copacabana, and a very nice area - the L.V store ... read more

WOW! WOW! WOW! pretty much sums up Iguazu Falls. Iguazu; I=water, guazu=big, is a fair enough name, these falls are huge! The height is around 74m max on them but the length and volume of water!!! Over 2.47 km, there are 275 waterfalls, pushing out 1750 cu/m per sec of water or during the rainy season 12750 cu/m/sec. So pretty much everywhere you look there are falls gushing out alot of water. The falls are on the border of Argentina & Brazil (Paraguay is also up there but no falls) and we saw them over 2 days on both sides. The first side we saw them from was of course Argentina. We got the overnight bus up from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu. And god what a bus ride!!! It was just under 15 hrs ( ... read more

From BA we flew down south to Patagonia for a week. Flights were very full so that was our time limit and we decided just to stick to El Calafate and see some glaciars and then to El Chalten for some trekking. El Calafate The first day in El Calafate we did a tour where you get in a boat and visit a whole heap of glaciars. The tour was good but long, it takes over an hour to get there then you are on this boat the whole day sailing around looking at icebergs & glaciars (there is alot in the area) and the boat can seem to be so slow at times. But it is quite cool ( I actually mean that literally as well it was FREEZING!!) Anyway you go and check out ... read more

Sunshine, good food, good wine...without a doubt I can easily say Mendoza has been my fav place so far (we still have Buenos Aires, Patagonia & Rio to go so it could easily change!). We have had just under a week here and i could easily stay longer. Again we haven´t been up to too much as Matt was quite ill when we first got here so I forced him to do nothing to get better (otherwise it spoils my fun!) so we took it easy. Mendoza was detroyed in the late 1800´s by earthquake and fire so as far as the buildings are concerned it is modern, low and on wide streets that are tree-lined. There is obviously a bit of money in the town so it is really pretty. It is also full of ... read more

Well we left Maryke & Pascal behind and headed down to Uyuni and the salt plains. The trip down was by bus and train. The train wasn´t too bad as the scenery was quite cool, with huge salt lakes and barren desert with mountians in the distance. We did get into Uyuni quite late, so needed to find a bed then get up early in the morning and hoped to find a tour leaving then. Well within 15 minutes of getting into uyuni at 10.30pm we had found both so were very happy! We even had a choice of groups, a mix of europeans or a bunch of irish and a token english girl. We went with the irish. The next day we soon realise we picked well. The irish were a bunch of 4 boys ... read more