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Rosario: Beautiful City, Shame About the Mozzies
With the bus so late I didn’t arrive in Rosario until 7pm. I hate arriving at night as I’d been burnt previously walking around and trying to find a hostel with nodaylight and in need of food. When you’re going from hostel to hostel in themorning it isn’t so much of a problem as you…
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Heading South and Loving the Sun
Posadas: Staying for the Heat and Chilled Cheap Cheap Beer. The bus ride to Posadas was the first single story bus I’ve been on since Bolivia. It was kind of a shock actually, after 3+ months of nothing but 2 story buses it’s anodd experience getting on a normal bus again. The most obvious different…
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Towards the Iguazu Falls
Resistencia: There be Motorbikes Here! After the heat of Salta I was looking forward in continuing this weather trend. While it was an experience to witness and feel 0 degree temperature in Calafate, I’m very much an Aussie and lose strength and vitality when absent from the sun for too long. Arriving in Resistencia the…
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Salta: The Sun Returns!
Northern Argentina continues to surprise and delight. Getting off the bus in Salta I was greeted with something I’d not come across for some time – hawkers at theterminal flapping on about their hostels. I don’t actually mind this, as it’san easy way of find out how much a place will cost without the wasted…
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Tucuman: We’re not in Europe anymore, Amigo.
I’m getting far too used to waiting around for hours. That’s probably a good thing as a vast portion of this trips travelling revolves around sitting in a bus terminalwaiting for your bus to arrive, and it’s a particular fact here in Argentina asthe most economical way to travel the distances is by catching an…
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Mendoza: Argentinian Vino Country
The bus to Mendoza would have been like any other bus journey, except for theexceptionally loud snoring from one passenger. It was the kind of snoring thatwas deep and full of bass, leading me to think it was actually a guy. On closerexamination it turned out to be a rather large woman, much to the…
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Busing it into Northern Argentina
Bahia Blanca After an overnight bus ride I arrived early morning to Bahia Blanca. I’d already at this point decided to move on and get myself to Mendoza and bought my ticket to the next city along the way – Neuquen. Thebus there was another overnighter, so it actually worked out nice to spend theday…
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Puerto Madryn
Upon arriving in Comodoro Rivadavia I decided to catch the next bus further north to the city of Trelew. The Lonely Planet didn’t have much positive to say about Comodoro, and checking online the forums seemed to agree it wasn’t really place worth stopping at. It was 7:30am and Trelew was 6 hours away, so…
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El Calafate – Real Snow, Ice Covered Streets, and One Huge Blue Glacier
The small town of El Calafate is located pretty much as far south in Patagonia as you can get. Further south and you’re into the area ominously called Tierra del Fuego (The Land of Fire). While the town has a catering for tourists, it stillretains a small town feel. The tourists flock here for one…
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Into Argentinian Patagonia
El Bolson The first stop along the journey into southern Patagonia was to the town of El Bolson. I’d read this place was some kind of ecofriendly hippy town, so needless to say I had some preconceived notions on what to expect. It was of course nothing like I was envisioning – no crazy dreadlocked…
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