ARGENTINA

The minute we crossed the border, the vast differences in the two countries were immediately noticeable! The roads in Argentina were paved, busses ran on time, locals were friendly and everything cost twice as much! We were happy to pay! The only problem was that we suddenly didn´t understand their version of Spanish (Bolivian Spanish, like the country was slow and simple. Argentinian not!) We were often left standing like a pair of goldfish with our mouths opening and closing but with nothing comprendable to say. They love South Africans though and were thankfully more than happy to slow down and speak spanglish to us.

We spent a few days in a town called Tilcara where we just did some more walking in an attempt to get back the use of our legs after the horse escapades. We then travelled south to Cafayate - wine country - where we over indulged in good local wine and steak. It was really beautiful but doesn´t give the Bosch a run for it´s money.

Taffe de Valle was our next stop where we did more horse-recovery walking, ate more steak and cheese and drank more wine. Shaun also somehow managed to convince me to do another horse riding tour (it must have been the wine) but only for 3hrs and Shaun´s spanglish request for a slow horse really did get me a mule! I was happy! The scenery wasn´t as spectacular but that could have been the fact that we weren´t seeing it at speed with the adrenalin of clinging onto a galloping horse!

Buenos Aires was our final stop and after checking into our hotel, we got serious cabin fever having not been in a city for a while so headed to the nearest park. 7km around a dam did the trick and we were soon city amped, pulling out our remaining semi-decent clothes, dusting them off and putting them on. Shaun actually wore deodorant for the first time in a while!

We spent the 4 days exploring the various suburbs, inderground tunnels and the famous pink presidential palace where Eva Peron made her famous speaches, not where Madonna famously sang from as Shaun understood it. The weirdest was by far the rich graveyard with it´s city of sarcophagi which attracts tourists in their droves. We ended off Argetina with an expensive dinner of steak and red wine accompanied by a tango show.

The Argentinian steak wasn´t quite as good as you get at home but the good looking men really should make it a high priority on any girl´s travel list!