Valdes Peninsula

Burn baby burn!

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April 27th 2007
We left Buenos Aires for an 18 hour bus ride to Puerto Madryn. On the way whenever we stopped at traffic lights people would juggle to entertain us, it was really odd. We arrived at our hostel Chepatagonia in the morning, that afternoon we decided to do a bike ride to Punta Loma. It was 17 km each way. The hostel owner told us it would take 3 hours but took us 6!!!! The bike ride was so hard as we ... read more

South America » Argentina » Chubut » Puerto Madryn

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more