Blogs from Neuquén, Argentina, South America - page 6

Patience leads to virtue they say, or in this case, our car! After a lounging weekend of watching 3 or 4 world cup games, and exploring the underbelly of Guayaquil to find the cheapest food possible, we returned to the hectic shipping ports of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Having a pretty solid idea of what was to pan out for the day, we used our taxi driver Marlo again, to chauffeur us around, from port to port and weasel our way into people´s lunches to get our paper work signed, copied, and handed over to the right people. Our mission to get our car would require all the copies we had, and in addition, getting some of them stamped by the head Aduana office at the principle port of Marítimo. Then and only then, could we utilize ... read more

March 30 and 31st we spent on planes, trains and omnibusses and arrived in Bariloche 40 hours later. We purchased deluxe "camas" which allowed us to recline the seats flat like a bed. Our little hotel was right downtown. What it lacks in size and comfort it more than makes up for in antiquated electrical design. The light switch inside the shower makes me laugh. We have been able to go for hikes and used a "teleferrico" or ski gondola. While the weather has been sunny, it has been very windy. We arrived in time for Semana Santa a time for people in big cities everywhere to get out of dodge. Bariloche is probably much noisier during the day because of it. There is a lot of construction still going on and it is Saturday. We ... read more

And would you believe it, we found one! Luckily it was in a museum, and someone gave us directions. We came here as we were curious about the dinosaur bones and footprints, but also partly as it's on the way to Puerto Madryn where we're told you can swim with sea lions! Neuquén was a nice enough city, but a little bit quiet after the others we'd been to. It did have a river with a little man made beach overlooking a forest and hills (sorry, no pictures). The water was very clean and even though it was close to freezing I was brave enough to have a bit of a swim. After this we had a craving for mexican food, so we asked someone and got directed to a place called Bambu. Turned out it ... read more

Hey everyone, Thanks again for all your comments, its great to see that people are enjoying the blog and following our adventure! After Mendoza, we headed into Patagonia region, first stop, Bariloche! The drive was beautiful through Patagonia´s Lake District, turquoise waters, mountains and rolling terrain. We arrived in Bariloche and stepped off the bus into surprisingly different weather. It was our first introduction to Patagonian winds and quite a temperature difference from the 40 degree weather in Mendoza! Bariloche is a beautiful town - situated right on a lake, with mountain back drop and the entire town on a hill facing these incredible views. We stayed at a great hostel, Hostel 1004, which was on the 10th floor and overlooking the lake. That day we walked around uptown (discovering that this area is famous for ... read more

Here we are all safe and sound in las Grutas, on the Atlantic South American coast. Much has happened and below is a Blog from Gerardo, that should have gone in ages ago, but I failed to be able to connect to the internet at the time, so sorry it is a bit late. I am having a bit of trouble to down load photos on this connection, so will try and add them later. Also is a Blog from Bones and also Mike, so make a cup of coffee and enjoy...Cheers, Rosco Hola, en el inicio de una nueva aventura y ahora hacia mi casa.mi región, previa infiltración en mi hombro realizada por segunda vez. previo al inicio de un nuevo viaje por el facultativo y amigo Sergio Maclean. El viaje en avión como siempre ... read more