The story so far. In short messaging style.

Martin:
Sorry for not writing earlier. Waiting is a normal thing, in Argentina, too.
The first weeks flew by. Of course Cris is writing too, so I wanna share my personal favourites, good and bad.

Buenos Aires:
Pros:
The football fan songs in South America in general and at Independente in special - not the boring songs European fans chant. Here it is melodic, rhythmic, long, loud, fun.

Café Americano Doble at Las Violetas. Perfecto.

Hunting for mate.

Cons:
The dirty water at La Boca port. Amazingly horrible and disgusting. Disaster tourism at its worst...

The city.

Hunting for a network...

Iguazu waterfalls:

Pros:
The thrill of hearing stories with scared Cris about aggressive vipers in the jungle when there´s no other way out.
Soooo much green and blue and flow and fall.
The sweet animals.

Cons:
The bored-to-death-boring-to-death backpackers and travelers in the americanized hostel.
The whole city becoming a waterfall the second day when we wanted to see the Brazilean side. At that point we actually decided to go South directly, skipping Brazil.

Cordoba
Pros:
Walking the city with fellow travellers... in that case Dan from Israel, a very relaxed chap.

Delicious all you can eat for 4 Euros in a real place when being hungry.

The handycrafts market with so much diversity and so many nice things.

Cons:
The wifi in hostels never worked so far...

Mendoza

Pros:
Meeting Ralf from Dresden in his paradise.

The best maracuja ice cream ever.

The beautifully tiled banks in the parks.

Rafting with scared-then-happy Cris

Cons:
Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside the Himalaya hiding from us.

Argentinean-Chilean border

Pros:
Officers showing around Cris´visa to their co-workers which was a curiosity.
The incredible mountain views.

Cons:
Air.
Waiting.
Grey.

Valparaíso

Pros:
Painted houses and graffiti everywhere.
Hills, steep roads.
The Deutsche Schule in Valpo.
Our hosts John and Hannah.
The little boy not succeeding in stealing out of the backpack.
The tour through the harbour for 2 Dollars in a rotten boat going close to all the things and animals, including sea lions, a pelican, and supposedly a penguin.
Pablo Neruda´s bedroom, shower, restrooms, bar.

Cons:
/

Santiago
Pros:
Finally a double bed room.
Watching the crazed people in a bar when Chile wins against Argentina for the first time since 1973. The bar looked like a catastrophy area afterwards. Intense.
The Precolombian Museum. Very very beautiful art and interesting cultures.
A city not as bad as people say.

Cons:
Exchange offices...
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What´s ahead? Patagonia, national parks, and the end of the world! Plus Buenos Aires again, and then up north.