Capital: Buenos Aires

Language: Spanish

Currency: Argentine peso

Do Indians need visa pre-arrival: Yes

Places I Visited:
• Buenos Aires- Excellent Nightlife, Walking in the downtown, Visiting La Boca (doing a day tour) and a lot of stuff.
• Ushuaia- Last city on earth, few treks around the city, gateway to continent Antarctica.
• El Calafate- gateway to Los Glaciares National Park one of the largest glacier in the world.
• El Chalten- Trekking to mountain Fitz Roy and a small city with beautiful Views.
• Mendoza- City with Mountain View, taking wine tours in the city.
• Salta- Decent city with a good city walk.

VISIT:: 1

I entered Argentina in a taxi with seven other people whom I met in the hostel in Iguazu falls, Brazil. After crossing the border from Brazil, we went to Iguazu Falls on the Argentina side where we spent around 4-5 hours in the falls. While going back to Brazil, I decided to get down at a bus station in Iguazu Falls, Argentina and take a bus to Rosario. I told the taxi driver to drop down me at the station; he did while the rest of them headed back to Brazil. I went to the bus station to obtain a ticket but found out that there was no bus to Rosario. I changed my mind right there and sought for a bus to Buenos Aires. Luckily enough, I found a bus that was to leave in an hour. It was one of the amazing and the longest bus ride I ever had.

At around 3, next day I got to Buenos Aires, and after moving out of the bus station, I went to the local bus stand and took a bus to the hostel. The hostel was one of the best hostels I lodged in South America. Surprisingly, I came across the Australian, 2 Irish people whom I met in the Florianopolis, these three people became really close to me.

On the first night, we attended the hostel party, Next day I didn’t do much than walking around I planned to stay in buenos aires for 2 nights. So, i only booked for 2 nights then later I wanted to extent my stay. so, i went to reception to extend my stay for other 3 nights but they did not had space for next night but they had space for after 2 nights i stayed for that night then moved to other hostel next night. On the next morning I met a crazy English guy where we did a small walking tour in the downtown visited presidential palace, centra square, and little walk in the streets. in the evening we went back to my previous hostel for partying then next day i again checked back into previous hostel this day i did a city tour in the bus and in the evening I was in the hostel party as it was st.patrics day we wore green t shirts and after the party at hostel, everyone was supposed to go to the bar. As we got on to the street, it was like an army wearing green t-shirts. We were like 50 people who walked down to the bar street and celebrated the St. Patricks day.

Our Green Army on St. patricks day

La Boca Streets

The next day was Saturday; I woke up late as a result of exhaustion. I had a little office work in the city, so I went out to attend to it. Then went back to hostel that night people were going to some nightclub even I decided to go with everyone we came 9 in the morning on Sunday. I supposed to go Uruguay on Monday after check out on Monday i left to ferry stand to catch my ferry to Uruguay but unfortunately all the tickets were sold. Then, I bought the ticket for Tuesday and searched for a hostel nearby. Next day I walked down to the ferry stand and took a boat to Uruguay.

Downtown of Buenos Aires

VISIT:: 2

After that, I boarded a flight from Montevideo to Ushuaia and had a layover in Buenos Aires. An exciting thing happened in the Buenos Aires airport. at the security checkpoint. The security personnel asked a question in Spanish which I did not understand, but someone from behind had to translate to me that what they meant was that they don’t allow deodorant in bags for reasons they didn't explain. I didn't buy the idea, so we started an argument, and they threw the perfume away in the process which I don't even care. But the man who translated what they said to me in English came after me and told “some people in our country act stupid sometimes, since the security personnel was rude to you, I would like to invite you to lunch” so I don’t feel bad about the Argentina people since this kind of attitude is everywhere. I was getting late to board my flight so I couldn’t accept his invitation, but he didn’t leave and lastly bought me a bar of chocolate which I gladly took. It helped in my perspective of the people in Argentines. Overall, they are cool and treat others very respectfully.

Finally, I landed in the “last city of the planet” Ushuaia around 9 p.m. It was so cold, and I struggled to sleep that night as the heaters in my room weren’t functioning properly. Next morning, I met a Greek and an American in the hostel I joined them for a trek. That was my 1st trek in my South America trip and it was really tiring. While coming back from our trek I stopped by the bus ticket office and booked a bus to Puerto Natales, Chile. While other 2 went back to the hostel, I took some time before going back to the hostel. The three of us decided that we would have dinner together during the trek and they waited till i got back. These guys were really amazing. The Greek guy became my close friend in a single day. Early the next day, I got on a bus to Puerto Natales with a bus change in Punta Arenas Chile.

Downtown of Ushuaia

During My Trek

VISIT:: 3

After Torres Del Paine, I took a bus from Puerto Natales to El Calafate to visit Puerto Montero glacier. Surprisingly, I met the German guy who did Torres Del Paine trek with me, in the hostel. on my first day in El Calafate, we walked around the city and the next day we took a bus to Puerto Montero, there we met a French girl in the bus and we did the glacier tour together. This was the finest glacier and largest glacier I ever saw. Later the French girl left us and we were on the return bus. En route to El Calafate, I saw a fox for the first time; it was terrific.

At Puerto Monero Glacier

After a night's stay in El Calafate, I took a bus to El Chalten. At el chalten It was a struggle finding my hostel but finally I found it. Next day, I met some people whom I came across while in Torres Del Paine trek and we did the Fitz Roy trek for two days after which I took a 30-hour bus to Bariloche. I had lot of treks in the last month so I didn’t take a chance to go trekking in Bariloche, but I met the American guy whom I met on my trip to Rio which was like around 2 months ago. I stayed in Bariloche for 2 nights and took a bus to Valparaiso Chile.

Mt. Fitz Roy at El Chalten

VISIT:: 4

From Santiago I took a bus to Mendoza, and that was like the hardest bus ride in my South American trip. It was a small van filled with lots of people, and I had to put my 12 kg bag on my lap for my whole bus ride, I was also the only non-Spanish person on the bus. My emigration on Chile side was pretty fast, and my immigration on the Argentina side took us 5 hours. After the sleepless night I had, I was in Mendoza next morning, and I took a rest for the whole day. Next day, I boarded a bus to winery area. As I alighted in the winery area, I rented a bike and visited about five wineries that day which was pretty dull because I did the whole wine tour alone. Later that night, I went back to the hostel and met people from a lot of different places. It was steak night in the hostel that day, and I was the only vegetarian out of the fifty people eating steak there. After the steak night we all went out for a party in the city. The next day I took a 20-hour bus ride to Salta. After I got down at Salta, I booked a hostel which was out of the city. I struggled to get there, and after checking in, I realized I was the only person staying in that hostel and was pretty much bored, so I checked out. Later I checked into another hostel in the center of the city but I really didn’t do much in Salta. The preceding day I took the bus to Atacama Chile.