Sydney to Buenos Aires via Santiago

After a six year delay from first booking our trip, we finally headed off from Sydney to South America. First leg was approximately 12 hours to Santiago where we basically spent the afternoon and evening at the airport hotel adjusting our time clock before heading off the following morning to Buenos Aires.
BA feels and looks very European - we oriented ourselves with a hop on hop off bus trip introducing us to the wide boulevards, quaint neighbourhoods, extensive gardens and parklands, impressive historical monuments (which laid bare my complete ignorance of Argentinian history - did you know Britain tried to invade BA in 1806/7?) and lots of museums I would like to go back to. A delightful tapas bar dinner with Mendoza Malbec rounded off the day.
Today we took a boat trip up the Rio de Plate to the delta at it’s mouth and cruised amongst the multiple islands there at Tigre on the outskirts of BA on which are the holiday houses of the city people plus permanent residents - there are no bridges or roads so all transport is via water craft.
Tomorrow we head of to Ushuaia at the bottom of Argentina where the adventure really begins!Read more