Blogs from Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina, South America - page 22

Puerto Piramides Latitude: -42.434, Longitude: -63.611 Temperature: 29ºC (84ºF) Altitude: 5m Nearest Equivalent / Equivalencia más aproximada: Pontevedra, Northern Spain ************************************************************** See some movies associated with this blog Another 18 hours on a bus from Buenos Aires and we arrived 655 miles later in Puerto Madryn, our base before we headed for our real reason for being here, the Whales. When we arrived Maria was still suffering from the cold caught in Buenos Aires, so we took it easy for a couple of days whilst she recovered. When we were both fit and healthy again, we hired a car and headed for Peninsula Valdés,... read more

Ok so I wanted to see the penguins in Puerto Madryn and penguins I saw!!!! I arrived in PM after a very uncomfortable night on a ‘semi cama’ bus which was DEFINETLY not semi cama (which essentially means a leg rest). So I staggered to the hostel and fell into bed for a couple of hours. Trekked off to inspect PM which is a sleepy little town situated in a bay. The first thing which caught my attention was the weather. There was I dressed in jeans and jumper as I had been in Bariloche and I was sweltering! I had assumed that since it was further south it would be cold. Not so - we may be in Patagonia but it was 25 C. I found myself the one restaurant on the beach and ordered ... read more

Hi Everyone Bet you thought you'd got rid of us eh? Well, no such luck, we've just been having far too good a time in Buenos Aires to bother with Internet cafes. (Interesting internet point: there are a very low number of home internet connections in South America, and most people have to go to public places to use the net, hence there are internet cafes everywhere). So, after a cultural explosion (well two days of culture constitutes an explosion in our book) we chilled out for the rest of our time in Argentina's capital. We spent a few days shopping and bought more than we could comfortably fit into our rucksacks. However, being pretty ingenious by now, we also bought extra bags!! We spent time wandering around the city's parks, which are really beautiful. We ... read more