From Mercedes we took a bus to Corrientes. We had hoped to get a bus straight on to Salta but got stranded there for the day. Despite there being literally dozens of bus companies, they all left for Salta around six in the evening. It seems crazy to us, with the idea that you should find a niche for your business drilled into our heads. Leaving ...

Sorry for not updating in so long!  Internet connection has been hard to come by.  I spent a week up north near Corrientes in a reserve known as Esteros de Ibera.  It's a huge wetlands (think Everglades) filled with wildlife.  I was in heaven! Gathered there was a large team of Argentine biologists.  Each had their own s...

With all escape options from Igazu thwarting us and the stray dogs building in numbers (anyone else thats been there see so many strays that follow you around? Or was it the fact we smelt. The later I fear), we took the first bus leaving that was going West....which of course was a clapped out piece of crap and not the cama class that Emma had p...

Some places are right while others are so so wrong. There are few towns or cities that have not held my interest for at least a few days, sometimes I have wanted to stay for much longer than originally planned, not that much planning has gone into my wanderings. Resistencia was one such place, quite frankly I was glad to move on after my experie...

OUffff, sacre changement de Resistencia... Corrientes c'est le bonheur.. Une jolie petite ville au bord du fleuve Parana, qui vit au rythme de la sieste, avec une jolie rue pietone. En plus on a le plaisir de dormir dans un hotel qui office d'"hotel de passes"... ca veut tout dire !!! Bref. On a egalement fete l'anniversaire de Flavia... On lui ...

Leaving Buenos Aires in complete luxury (VIP bus tickets for about a pound extra meant reclining seats, blankets, champagne, steak dinner and much appreciated air con. All of which is most amusing when you´re wearing your finest travelling gear and stinking after making the most of your last day in the city wandering around in the humid heat!!) ...

I arrived in Corrientes in the wee hours of the morning, after 12+ hours on a coach. I have been managing to collect bites, bites from sleeping in sheets that have irritated my skin, bites from mossies and even from bloody flies! Which when your tired, and they begin to itch it is really irritating. Yesterday, I actually saw a fly land on my han...

Mein Hotel (Hotel San Martin) in Corrientes liegt direkt an einem der vielen Plazas und strahlt einen beharrlich alten und verschliessenen Charme aus. Der Reisefuehrer (lonely planet) stellte die Zimmer als sauber dar - so richtig konnte ich diese Erkenntnis nicht teilen (an anderer Stelle hatte er aber wieder Recht und einen guten Tipp: er empf...

Nachdem ich nun beschlossen hatte, mir nicht die brasilianische Seite der Wasserfaelle anzusehen bzw. ins paragayische Schmuggler-Staedtchen Ciudade del Este zu fahren (beides waere hier ohne Aufwand realisierbar gewesen), bin ich frueh am Morgen mit dem Bus in Pto. Iguazu losgefahren. Als Ziel hatte ich das 9 Busstunden entfernte Corriente ausg...

Yep, back into Argentina after another early start to cross the border. By the time I arrived I was so tired having spent several hours on local buses crossing the border. This meant standing on a crowded bus with the backpack on as it sped around, clambering on and off when nobody wants to let you on or off etc. This is a bit difficult as we ha...