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After our first night bus experience, we spend two days in San Carlos de Bariloche to hike a couple of trails around the lakes.

San Carlos de Bariloche

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We got to Bariloche from Malarguë via San Rafael, by taking a Buttini bus to San Rafael, then killing about 8 hours there, before getting on the night bus to Bariloche. We’d been on several

To break up our bus journey from Mendoza to San Carlos de Bariloche, we take a bus trip to La Payunia, a park with hundreds of volcanoes.

La Payunia day trip from Malarguë

21/02/202025/04/2020Argentina

When we’d had enough steak and wine in Mendoza, we started planning how to get to our next destination, Bariloche. It turned out that it was nightbus or bust to get there, and that the

We spend 2 nights and 3 days in Mendoza, enough to sample some of the wines the region has to offer, and we get our first taste of the high Andes.

Mendoza – Wines and the Andes

20/02/202025/04/2020Argentina, South America

For us, Mendoza was best known for being the centre of the Argentinian wine production. So when we entered the city, we figured it would be full of wine shops and tour operators offering vineyard

Antares is the first place in Argentina we came across that were more than just refreshing, they have taste.

Hopspot: Antares in Córdoba

11/02/202025/04/2020Argentina, Hopspot

During our stay in Argentina, we'd come across a few craft beers, but none had really made an impression on us. As we walked into Anteres in Córdoba however, we were greeted with that typical

We spend a day in Córdoba, Argentina’s second city, exploring the different areas of the city on foot, going between colonial heritage and trendy bars.

We arrived in Córdoba after a long journey involving multiple buses to find that the pictures of the hostel we’d booked had been taken by a skilled photographer, choosing angles to hide that this place

We piece together Argentina’s myriad bus options to make our way from Puerto Iguazu to Cordoba.

Three-part camel ride to Cordoba

09/02/202025/04/2020Argentina

We spent hours – really, hours – trying to decide how to get out of Puerto Iguazu. We’d only planned the first week of our trip (beach – city – waterfalls, please) and had decided

We visit both the Brazilian and Argentinian side of the Iguazu falls and discover they’re very different.

Iguazu Falls – Brazilian and Argentine sides

05/02/202025/04/2020Argentina, Brazilfeatured

We decided to spend one day at the Brazilian side of the falls and another at the Argentine side, and what a difference there was. (more…)

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