Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Corder, Thursday the 5th of February.

If you were listening yesterday, you will have heard Stephen Milton, the great Latin American legend, talking about Buenos Aires.

Today we are going to go more deeply into the rest of Argentina.

From here, it depends what you want. I wouldn't recommend a beach holiday because the beaches are okay, but the waters are really cold, so don't do that.

Of course, remember, summer here is January when we're talking now.

If you want to go north, you've got to try and think of like a sort of inverted triangle as you go

north top right you've got missionis which is incredible it's jungle you've got the iguu

waterfalls roaring waters in the language and that's really impressive that's a wonder the world

that's definitely worth seeing very good for tourism but i wouldn't go in summer i wouldn't go in

the summer january can hit 45 50 degrees humidity, people just pass out. So I would go there, you know, September, time, July, there's these little coethe, these weird raccoons that crawl across your monkeys. Excellent. That's top right. Also, there's the Misionis, there's the Catholic missions a bit further down. That's what the province is called Misionis.

And it's all these ruined old Portuguese and Spanish missions

where they try to sort of educate the Indians, as they call them.

Very interesting, or crumbles, but very, very interesting if you're going up that way.

If you go top left, you've got Salta Kokoi that way, which I find incredible.

It's almost like much more of what your listeners might think of a US Badlands West.

It's mountains, it's colours, it's minerals.

You've got a lot of real, much more local culture there,

which I don't think you've got in the rest of the country,

because that's the end of the sort of Inger Empire reached up there. A very interesting, interesting customs. You've got the Kilmen's ruins. Really impressive. That's actually my favourite part. As you move down towards the centre of the triangle, where you've got like Buenos Aires on one side, then you've got a Mendocer on the other side, which is wine, very good, being.

Good skiing.

If you're in winter, check the snowfall, though, because it can be a bit erratic these days. And the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere. Akon Kawe. Yeah, that's very high. Mendoza is beautiful, and a really nice holiday for wine visits. There's wine up in Salvation, Bufu as well, obviously. And as you move further south, Patagonia is very, very big.

I mean, from Buenos Aires, it's a 20-hour drive, 24-hour drive down there, so you need to be flying. It's four hours in a play, so get the distances in your head. You get down to Ushua and from there you've got the local area, which is very pretty little hills, mountains, very sort of Norwegian,, fields perhaps. And really, that's boat trips around the bottom to Chile. Check the weather,

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