Every Saturday for two months Gualeguaychu in the province of Entre Rios celebrates carnival ('carnaval' in Spanish). I tried to see...

Saturday was to be the last big night for Carnival 2008 in Gualeguaychu. Every Saturday for 2 months, the place goes crazy with a parade of...

Photo: Carnival Fun Tomorrow, I'm off to the last day of carnival in these there parts in Gualeguaychu Carnival, Argentina with the miss...

Five hours down the coast from Buenos Aires, lies the laid back beach resort of Pinamar. We went for the weekend to see what it had it offe...

A wee 24 hour delay due to the snow and I headed back to Buenos Aires via Miami . It was a relatively ‘hitch’ free journey and I left at ...

We looked at the guide book for the highlights on route from Iguazú back to Buenos Aires but compared to what we’d already seen, they were f...

Four hours east of Ascunción, three countries meet (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) with 3 border towns, literally minutes apart from each othe...

It´s difficult to say anything positive about this most northerly border town of La Quiaca or its Bolivian neighbouring town of Villazó...

3 hours west of Humuauca on yet another winding, dusty, mega bumpy, unpaved road is the village of Iruya, set in a valley and surrounded by ...

You can definitely feel the altitude in these parts. Any sort of exercise leaves you a bit ligt headed. Every time the bus stops for a bre...

East of the Salinas Grandes is the small village of Pumamarca and the descent into the village from over 4,000 metres is absolutely spectacu...

1500kms from Buenos Aires is the historic capital of Salta. There are numerous interesting buildings including the neoclassical Iglesia San...

It was only nine pesos for the two and a half hour bus journey to Angastaco but in 35 celcius heat in a rickety old rust bucket of a bus wit...

We had a very chilled out day today after hiking around in blistering heat yesterday. The locals recommened we try the 'helado de vino...

Cafayate is a pleasant small town where I would strongly recommend the extremely laid back Hosteria Rustik, where the super friendly owner W...

We hopped off the bus in Amaicha and by a stroke of luck we were approached by a local called Sebastian Pastrana (www. sumajpacha.com Tel 54...

Tafí del Valle is a small (touristy) town nestled in a valley and has several interesting day trips close by (see below). Last nights highl...

After an overnight bus, we arrived at Tucamán at 9am and after the double espresso kick started my brain into gear we went exploring. Due t...

Both of these national parks are impressive in their own right and within a few hours of each other. Parque Ischigualasto (a.k.a. Valley of...

There isn't too much going on San Juan to be honest (ok - it's a dead loss really). The only positive spin I can put on it is we di...