Birds of a Feather

We arrived at our hostel in Cayate–our next stop northward through Argentina–just in time for the second period of the Canada vs. US gold medal hockey game. Over Argentinian beer, we cheered on Canada. Some travellers from Europe joined us and it all felt very international. Canada won, of course, and the universe fell into (Read More)

From Carlos Pellegrini we took a rocky 4 am bus ride to the town of Mercedes where we connected with another bus to Corrientes. After reading the description of Corrientes in Lonely Planet (which actually says ‘F#$% Corrientes’) we weren’t particularly inspired to go exploring. We bought tickets with Aconquija, the bus line that runs (Read More)

Thanks to a tip from a tour operator in San Ignacio, our next Argentinian stop was the sleepy remote town of Colonia Carlos Pellegrini in the marshlands of Ibera. We heard that Ibera would be a good alternative to the Brazilian Pantanal, which we had decided to avoid after hearing that it was especially swampy at (Read More)