Blogs from Río Negro, Argentina, South America - page 14

Hoi iedereen!! Eindelijk nog eens een nieuwtje langs deze kant.. Eeerst en vooral: er staan eindelijk nieuwe foto's online (jaja het internet is terug menselijk om te betalen haha). Ik heb zoveel te vertellen dat ik niet weet waar te beginnen, maar zoals altijd doe ik mijn best :P Na Buenos Aires zijn we naar 'El Calafate' vertrokken. Daar hebben we de ongelooflijk indrukwekkende gletsjer Perito Moreno bezocht. We hebben stukken ijs zien en horen afbreken.. Ongelooflijk hoe zoiets volledig natuurlijk kan zijn en zo immens groot. Het coolste was zonder twijfel het feit dat we op de gletsjer zijn geklommen met ijspieken onder onze schoenen.. Dat was een unieke ervaring! We hebben mooie watervallen en diepe gaten in het ijs gezien. Ook het verschil van de kleuren van de gletsjer (afhankelijk van de lichtsinval) zijn ... read more

From Bariloche it's a short but beautiful hop (a mere three hours in the bus), along a road boxed in on both sides by soaring snow-capped mountains, to the small but intriguing town of El Bolsón. Wedged between two mountain ranges, El Bolsón couldn't have a more impressive setting. The mild microclimate its position produces has made El Bolsón one of the country's prime fruit-growing areas - strawberries, raspberries, cherries, peaches, apricots...all abound here. We've been feeling somewhat vegetable-starved for the past few weeks (or months...) and the bounty available on the shelves of El Bolsón is, on its own, a big reason to come here. The first night in our cosy little hostel sees us gorge on mountains of greenery the likes of which we haven't seen since we left home. El Bolsón has something ... read more

Day 46 - Friday 25th November Today was the start of a trip we had both been dreading, an agonising two day bus journey up the “legendary ruta 40” in Argentina. As I may have explained before, there isn’t a lot to see as a tourist through a large swathe across South America. The huge Patagonian ice sheet that covers much of lower Chile has few access points other than the lower portions which we had visited via Argentina. The middle portion of Argentina is largely cattle, sheep and oil country with few tourist sights other than possibly sighting the snow peaked mountains of the Andes. Most sensible people fly down to the lower accessible portions of Patagonia and Ushuaia and then out again. We however got several long bus journeys down and now chose to ... read more

I finally made it to Patagonia! I've seriously wanted to go for so long. I'm a little disappointed that I didn't make it to the southern part to see penguins and glaciers, but that can wait for another trip to South America...and I still went to Patagonia. My friend Meghan and I left Friday afternoon on hopped on a bus that took around 25 hours to get to Bariloche. By the time we got there Saturday around 6 and took a colectivo with our new Dutch friend to our Hostal, we were so tired that we just ate our dinner and headed back to our room. We had the option of booking a trek to a glacier but decided against it because it was a little pricy (which I regret now) and decided that we would ... read more

After a lonesome week in southern Patagonia, witnessed the desolated, deserted cold town in the far South and the only movable glacier in the world, however, the northern part of Patagonia seems polluted, commercial, busy, crowded, but warmer part of Argentina - San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche, the famous spots in Central Argentina, bordering with Chilean Patagonia, and its surrounding is also one of the most spectacular regions in Argentina. To be honest, getting to Bariloche is never cheap, especially when we flying from the south. First of all we had to fly back north to Buenos Aires and change another plane down to south again, it's wasting time and money but as Argentina is very long and narrow, getting anywhere within the country is always involves airplanes, and always up and down ... read more