The first Argen­tin­ian city we went to was Ushuaia, in Tierra Del Fuego. Because of its geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion — it is the South­ern­most city in the world, stuck at the tip of the Amer­i­cas, right in front of Antarc­tica — food was quite expen­sive. We ended up cook­ing in hos­tels a lot through­out all Patag­o­nia for the same rea­son. But once back to civ­i­liza­tion, in Buenos Aires, we truly got to enjoy the gastronomy.

We both loved our trip in Cen­tral and South Amer­ica. And now that we are home again in Canada, we thought about it: what were the best places, the best cities that we saw… and what were the worst experiences?

Hello frozen hell… we are fly­ing back to Canada.

¨Every­body gets off! For the immi­gra­tion office, walk two blocks that way, turn left, then right, and then you will see another street. Well, it´s not that one, but the next on the right.¨ What the fuck? ¨Oh¨, the dri­ver added, ¨hurry up because you have to take the Porto Ale­gre bus at 1:00 pm… from the other station¨.

Rest­ing on lovely Uruguyan beaches before the big Portuguese-speaking country!

Mon­te­v­ideo was much qui­eter and much smaller than Buenos Aires, but a great place to relax. The city cen­ter, where we stayed, had a lot of colo­nial build­ings, some falling apart, some won­der­fully restored. The sea­side was equally nice: we walked along the shore, look­ing at peo­ple fish­ing and kids play­ing in the water.

Not yet tired of Buenos Aires, its huge steaks and great nigtlife, we nonethe­less decided to travel fur­ther, to Uruguay, a coun­try we had never been to. Mon­te­v­ideo was sup­posed to be a great cap­i­tal, small and safe enough to be trav­eled eas­ily, yet very nice to visit.