Night bus from Mendoza, 20 hours on the bus is tough on your butt (yes I know what your thinking) but the last four hours along route 40 to Bariloche is through the most amazing landscape, geology, rivers and lakes that make it worth doing. Route 40 in itself is pretty amazing, it runs 5000 km from the Bolivian border in the north to Ushuaia in the south, crossing 18 important rivers, 20 national parks and nature reserves and connects 11 provences, Argentinas Route 66. Bariloche is set at the side of lake Lago Nahuel Hauapi, at the edge of the Andes mountain range, on arrival we found our hostel "Penthouse 1004" on the 10th floor of the most ugly 70s built block of flats in the middle of the city, but on entry to the
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