And now the end is near..........

Jason

The first few pics are from Brazil in case you wondered!! We flew from Rio to Buenos Aires where we had 4 days in this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, probably the best in South America. We had a few afternoons in Hard Rock, it was like catching up with an old friend! We went to watch River Plate play and found out they had been kicked out of there own stadium because of crowd trouble so we had our fingers crossed that they won.......... they lost 1-0 in the 97th min. Lots of injury time because the Argies dive all the time at the slightest touch. Fantastic. The Brazilians play the better football but the atmosphere must go to the Argies. After that we flew down to Rio Gallegos, imagine the worst mining town near you, then caught the bus to El Calafate to see the Glaciers. They are amazing, running down into the water. The faces of them are about 50-80m tall and they are bigger in area than Buenos Aires!! When we got to the Moreno glacier it was only 100m away but the fog was so bad we could not see it but luckily it lifted within 40 mins and it was just stunning. We also got to see a huge piece slice off when we were on the boat and the noise was incredible, so were the huge tidal waves that followed it. The next day we went on a cruise up to more glaciers which were great but the most incredible part was the Icebergs. They were huge and the various blue colours within them was amazing. We also got to stand on tiny icebergs which was cool fun. We had fun in Rio Gallegos when our flight was cancelled back to Buenos Aires which in turn cancelled our bus to Puerto Iguazu. It was a fun expensive day which involved us buying a bus ticket for the 36 hours bus ride that we never used because they put another flight on for us!!!! Not bad though, eleven months of travelling and only really one bad journey cock up!! (I hope we haven't cursed our journey home now as we are still in Buenos Aires!) When we eventually got to Puerto Iguazu after an overnight bus ( serves free wine and champagne ) the falls were well worth the journey. They are simply stunning the shear size of them is incredible, as is the noise and the spray, we got soaked at the Devils Gorge. We also went to the Brazilian side and you get a much better panoramic picture of the whole falls. It was another overnight bus and more champagne back to Buenos Aires for our last two nights before coming home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are beginning to resemble steaks as we have eaten so much, it is so cheap and so ridiculously delicious.

And that's that. Eleven months and some amazing adventures and amazing places. We have seen everything that we had planned to and more besides and this journey will last with us for lifetime, hope so as we are now skint!!!! A few interesting facts, to make this trip we have taken 50 flights, 28 train journeys, 17 bus journeys and 4 ferry rides!!! Vicki has also taken over 10000 photo´s and I have over 10 hours of video, please keep a weekend free.

Thanks for looking in and helping us along the way with your emails and chats.

Now next year.......................................................