6TH - 11TH DECEMBER

We arrived back in Buenos Aries a couple of hours early for our bus, but the wait was helped by a champions league match being shown in the bus station café. We had booked the bus before leaving for Uruguay, and had decided to stop over in Bahia Blanca to avoid a 20 hour journey. We had also decided to go for the best kind of bus, a cama suite bus. Cama means that the seats recline all the way to almost horizontal, more comfortable for an overnight journey. When our bus finally arrived and we boarded we were delighted to find that it was the most comfortable bus we’ve ever seen on our travels! The seats were enormous, I can only describe it as like first class in a long haul aeroplane, complete with pillows and blankets!! Even though it was around half eleven at night we were given a huge meal!! We managed to sleep reasonably well and when we arrived at around 7.30 in the morning we kind of wished that we’d taken the plunge and done the whole twenty hours in one go,

especially since when we went to book our bus to Puerto Madryn, the gateway to the peninsula, we found that we could only get a semi-cama bus, not nearly as comfortable.

Bahia Blanca wasn’t an overly interesting place, but we found a nice hotel and spent the morning watching footie in our room! We needed to send a parcel home with Christmas presents for our family and the usual DVDs of photos. Now, posting a parcel had been a pretty simple experience in Iguazu Falls, but not so here it seemed. We were very confused when the lady told us that we couldn’t post our parcel, and didn’t understand her Spanish explanation of why not. Thankfully there was a friendly English speaker on hand who explained that it was too heavy, and had to go to the customs office to be checked first - only problem was, it only opened in the morning and we were too late. After a ton of hassle we opted for sending three