The bus arrived 5 hours early in Puerto Madryn, so two very sleepy people were slightly surprised and confused having being woken up and told to get off. After finally having woken up, and several very cheesy empanadas (small pasties) later, we walked out to the Ecocentro on the outskirts of town. Welcomed by the skeleton of a Right Whale outside we stepped into the perfect beach house - and a cool exhibition about the local area and why is is so important to a huge variety of sealife. We spent the whole of the next day in a minibus. Well it felt like it. But we did manage a few stops on the tour of Peninsula Valdez, taking in sealions (lots of fighting, waddling, swimming, smelling), penguins (cuddling, sunbathing, climbing/walking huge distances on little legs),
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