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The first place we went to, after returning to Argentina from Uruguay, was Santa Fe. We had a part of the country left, Entre Rios, and we were not disappointed to spend a bit of time there. The vegetation was similar to previous stretches of road after leaving Cordoba, but the cities were different. The landscape seems monotonous but it is because the country is huge and it takes so long to drive from one place to another. Santa Fe was a very nice experience, so much so

Getting to Buenos Aires on a Sunday afternoon was an easy drive, and the city was quite empty. As we found out it was because the Monday was to be a public holiday, and everyone had left to enjoy their extra day off elsewhere. We found a hotel in San Martín, a street in the central city with easy walking to the main attractions. The first afternoon we revisited El Retiro, the biggest transport hub, with its neighborhood of colourful buildings. This area had deteriorated si

The route from Mendoza to Buenos Aires took us to Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Rosario and ended in Buenos Aires. The roads were very good with motorways all the way. Those motorways were not always well maintained but they were fast enough to be able to do a lot of kilometers each day without too many hours spent. The scenery on the first part, Mendoza to Rio Cuarto, was farmland with quite a few trees and some variation in the landscape. In one part we even had some snow on the r

The road network in Argentina is difficult to maneuver because the standard of the roads are highly variable, even for the same road number. There is a famous RN40, which is supposedly going along the west side from south to north, but when we looked into it we had to choose differently or we would have likely ended up with car trouble. Leaving Bariloche, we drove the Camino de Los Siete Lagos, ending up driving RN40 on a good stretch and arriving in San Martín de los Andes

After a lot of talking with locals and learning about the strong wind causing road closures across all of Santa Cruz the following day, we drove the whole day to get to Comodoro Rivadavia. Arriving late Sunday afternoon, we found a nice hotel and decided to stay there to wait the weather out. The next day the city was closed down, meaning that all supermarkets were closed and any activities cancelled. The hotel didn't even have much to choose from food-wise, and it was a

We entered Argentina via the Paso Integración Austral border crossing, and it was a smooth process. On first sight it looked pretty much the same as the part of Chile we had just left, and not until we reached Rio Gallegos did we see the changes. The most obvious was the wind, it was so strong that the ferry we had taken to leave Tierra del Fuego was closed the following days. It turned out that Rio Gallegos is listed as one of the windiest cities on Earth, and when it is