El Bolson

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El Bolson is a little town, in the province of Rio Negro ( the province just up from Chubut) with maybe 15 000 people, not sure. I went there 2 weekends in a row, the first time for an afs party and the second time just with my parents.

El Bolson from what I gather is the equivilent to the byron bay of australia. On saturday and sunday mornings there is the ´ferria ´which is a craft and food market full of hippy type stuff and the town has alot of really good ice-cream and chocolate and other such things as well.

Like the rest of patagonia it is also surrounded by beautiful scenery. I went on a little hike up a hill which overlooked the whole town, and visited a nearby lake named ´Lago Puelo´. Alot of the scenery around here reminds me of parts of New Zealand, and so does the weather.

I had a good time meeting all the exchange students of El Bolson at the party we went to put on by AFS. Good to hear everyone elses experiences and see where everyone was at with talking spanish and school and all the rest of it.

Anyway I´ll leave you with some photos now...

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Photos

La Feria
Me with my parents in the markets, I¨m drinking some kind of strambery smoothie that was absolutely delishious.

AFSers of Esqeul
Mee from Thailand, Kyla from Alaksa ( USA), me from Australia and Jeevon from Washington ( USA)

Going out in El Bolson
We went out with some of the AFS kids and their siblings. Also in El Bolson they give the exchangers support people of about their own age so with some of them aswell.

Lago Puelo
I couldn´t help myself, it was just so peaceful there...

Lago Puelo
Here we are with Nancy, the chapter chair person of El Bolson

Lago Puelo
Me with my mum Elsa, and someones really cute little dog that I just had to have in the photo.

La Feria
This just made me laugh. The sign I blew up in the bottom right is from the jewellery stall on the left. Many stalls have these signs which tell you where you can buy ´special´things.