El Calafate turned out to be really cool place to visit. After the trauma of almost not getting into Argentina our hostel I Ken Keu put on a feast of a BBQ for our first night and everyone in the hostel all stayed in that night to eat and OD on meat! Literally the biggest feast of meat i have ever had all washed down with red wine! simply delicious! I have a really good photo of it but the internet/computer won't let me add it! so sorry about that.
The thing to see though in Calafate is the Perito Moreno glacier which is GIGANTIC!! i took the cheaper option and just went for a few hours to walk around the platforms they have set up near the glacier which was pretty incredible. Just out of this world big. you feel very small and insignificant! So we did that for a day and then also joined up with an Irish man called Richard to go walking in a nearby national park *3 hrs away! which was stunning, blue sky, sun, definately feel that summer is on the way now. The walking was quite hard because it was mostly uphill but really worth while and gorgeous views of Fitz Roy - one of the prominant peaks.
Puerto Moreno Glacier
We had a bit of a mare on our last day. Tash and I lost each other in town, i was sending postcards and she was getting money out and then tash had forgotten her card, lost money, and with only 1 hr before our bus was leaving had not checked out of the hostel! slightly tense...... then the bus journey itself turned out to be a real nightmare because there was this really irrating little child on board that did not shut up for most of the 20 hr journey! i was about to kill it!! i also managed to get a chair that didn't recline properly so i was sitting upright for most of the time which was not nice!
anyhoo! we got to Puerto Madyrn which is further up Argentina on the coast. We are slowly m aking our way up from the south and Patagonia region. This is a fairly boring town and the main attraction is the whales and as a not very animal watching person i wasn't exactly excited about this place. however we had a really good hostel which had super fast internet and we could lounge around and watch movies. We did go and see the whales but rather than paying a ridicilous amount we hired bikes and bumped along a very gravelly road to sit on a gorgeous beach and saw some whales off the beach...got 2 photos! that was it.
moving swifly onwards to Bariloche which is kinda similar to Pucon but much bigger is the capital of the lake district of Argentina and one of the most beautiful places we have been so far. Its a bit like being in Swizaland because of all the wooden chalet houses, chocolate shops and snow capped mountains and beautiful likes. we spend one day walking up to 2 glaciers, one white and one black, which was really nice,,,full day out with a long walk and great photos. we made friends with a french guy called Remy who joined us. he also joined us for the biking the next day which was a highlight of the trip so far. it was very hilly...which was challenging but the views were to die for. if you like outdoors, adventure activities of any kind this is your place. skiing in the winter and excellent walking and biking in teh summer. it was my favourite day so far.
so its 3 weeks in to the day and we have made it from Santiago south to Patagiona, and now back up again. We have travelled distance wise a VERY long way! but it hasn't seemed rushed or anything. there is so much to do in Argentina that i think we will be here for another couple of weeks. Next stop is Buenos Aires on a 24 hr bus from Bariloche ! YAY! sorry about the lack of photos i will try and sort that out when we get better computers. all for now. J xxx
The thing to see though in Calafate is the Perito Moreno glacier which is GIGANTIC!! i took the cheaper option and just went for a few hours to walk around the platforms they have set up near the glacier which was pretty incredible. Just out of this world big. you feel very small and insignificant! So we did that for a day and then also joined up with an Irish man called Richard to go walking in a nearby national park *3 hrs away! which was stunning, blue sky, sun, definately feel that summer is on the way now. The walking was quite hard because it was mostly uphill but really worth while and gorgeous views of Fitz Roy - one of the prominant peaks.
Puerto Moreno Glacier
We had a bit of a mare on our last day. Tash and I lost each other in town, i was sending postcards and she was getting money out and then tash had forgotten her card, lost money, and with only 1 hr before our bus was leaving had not checked out of the hostel! slightly tense...... then the bus journey itself turned out to be a real nightmare because there was this really irrating little child on board that did not shut up for most of the 20 hr journey! i was about to kill it!! i also managed to get a chair that didn't recline properly so i was sitting upright for most of the time which was not nice!
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| Fitz Roy peaks |
anyhoo! we got to Puerto Madyrn which is further up Argentina on the coast. We are slowly m aking our way up from the south and Patagonia region. This is a fairly boring town and the main attraction is the whales and as a not very animal watching person i wasn't exactly excited about this place. however we had a really good hostel which had super fast internet and we could lounge around and watch movies. We did go and see the whales but rather than paying a ridicilous amount we hired bikes and bumped along a very gravelly road to sit on a gorgeous beach and saw some whales off the beach...got 2 photos! that was it.
moving swifly onwards to Bariloche which is kinda similar to Pucon but much bigger is the capital of the lake district of Argentina and one of the most beautiful places we have been so far. Its a bit like being in Swizaland because of all the wooden chalet houses, chocolate shops and snow capped mountains and beautiful likes. we spend one day walking up to 2 glaciers, one white and one black, which was really nice,,,full day out with a long walk and great photos. we made friends with a french guy called Remy who joined us. he also joined us for the biking the next day which was a highlight of the trip so far. it was very hilly...which was challenging but the views were to die for. if you like outdoors, adventure activities of any kind this is your place. skiing in the winter and excellent walking and biking in teh summer. it was my favourite day so far.
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| Chico Circuito bike ride around the lakes near Bariloche |
so its 3 weeks in to the day and we have made it from Santiago south to Patagiona, and now back up again. We have travelled distance wise a VERY long way! but it hasn't seemed rushed or anything. there is so much to do in Argentina that i think we will be here for another couple of weeks. Next stop is Buenos Aires on a 24 hr bus from Bariloche ! YAY! sorry about the lack of photos i will try and sort that out when we get better computers. all for now. J xxx
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