Since arriving in El Calafate we’d attempted to book a flight to our next destination, Bariloche, only to find the prices extortionate and it was looking like we were going to have to take a bus - not to worry the journey was only going to take 33 hours! So we reluctantly booked this, stocked up on Pringles & set off at around midnight on a Friday night. The journey involved 3 different buses. The first was a 4 hour boneshaker south, i.e. the wrong way, to a place called Rio Gallegos (which was a dump). After a short stop here we proceeded to Comodoro Rivadavia, another dump. Here we had a 2 hour stopover so we headed off in search of food only to be, for the first time in my life, turned away
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