Larry's visit

We met Larry in the Yukon, and later spent some time with him at his home in Huntsville Texas. This was his first trip out of North America, so we were a little worried about what he'd think to London, travelling around on the underground, and the almost constant rain, but he looked happy enough when we found him a Mexican restaurant and a Margarita!

Back in the UK

Picking up the Land Rover from Tilbury docks. We decided to tow the landy as we weren't entirely convinced it would pass it's MOT first time!

Meeting up with fellow travellers John & Denise in Yorkshire. The last time we'd seen them was in Panama City, at the airport. They were heading to Ecuador, and we were heading off to Colombia. We never did catch up with them! They are now planning a trip to Africa in their Toyota.

At leisure in Buenos Aires

With the Land Rover safe in it's container we were free to explore Buenos Aires before our flight home

Palermo with Dorothee

A farewell coffee with Chad

Shipping from Buenos Aires

It's a sad day for us as the landy, our home for the last 2 years, goes into a container at the Terminal Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires. We'll be following it back to the UK soon!

With Luis & Mercedes, we shared the same shipping agents http://www.hubargentina.com.ar/ who we would thoroughly recommend. Our contact there, Octavio Javier Herreros, made the whole experience very easy and stress free.

Going home!

Whose crazy idea was it to drive up to Iguasu?

We are finally back in Buenos Aires, tired and ready to go home. It was nice to be briefly back in the sunshine, the falls at Iguasu are amazing, but the Ibera Marshes were the highlight of the trip for us, beautiful, tranquil, with amazing bird and wildlife.

Now we just need to organise getting the landy and ourselves back to the UK!

The road to Iguasu

Crossing the Parana River into Entre Rios Province

A Ford Falcon in the lovely old riverside town of Colon. You see these old cars everywhere in Argentina, makes you feel like your back in the 1970's!

Parque Nacional El Palmar

Capaybara crossing!

The amazing Ibera Marshes in Corrientes

The lovely campground at Ibera

Gauchos ahead!

Driving the Ruta 12, the earth turns red and and the road ahead hilly as we enter Missiones province.

The Jesuit Mission at San Ignacio Mini

John at Iguasu Falls

Buenos Aires at last

We thought we would never get here. It's a long way from Ushuaia to Buenos Aires and there really is not a lot to do on the the way. Well, that's not quite true, there are some amazing things to see, and there would be more if all the penguins and whales and other exciting sealife hadn't already gone north to Brasil for the winter... we were late as ever! But Argentina is such a long country, the distances between places are huge, and there are hundreds of miles of literally nothing, perhaps a few guanacos and rheas running off in fright as you approach, if you're lucky. Forget Saskachewan, forget West Texas, Argentina wins on the long boring drives stakes! So for once we're glad to be back in a big city and feel the buzz of millions of other people around us. We're off to the cinema..