Blogs from El Bolsón, Río Negro, Argentina, South America - page 8

We have been in El Bolson for about a week and a half now and are loving it! The town is beautiful, surrounded by huge, glacier cap mountian, rivers and lakes. We really couldn´t ask for more! However, we did have a first big disappointment of the trip. . . the camera with all our pictures was lost/stolen. I don´t want to get into the long complicated story but it looks like it is gone. Luckily we have posted a lot of pictures of the trip online. . . now we are just hoping we can email some of the people we met through Peru, Bolivia, and early Argentina to get some of the pictures back. We still have a camera so we can continue to provide pitures for ourselves and all you lucky viewers. Oh ... read more

Last time we wrote we were still in Bolivia. . . . That feels like it was months ago! We survived the 17 hour train ride! We knew we were in for an adventure when we showed the man at the station our tickets and he smirked to his coworker as pointed to the last car on the train. Needless to say we were riding with the locals. That wasn´t bad except we stopped at every town along the way where people were shuffling on and off the train with their HUGE bags of things to sell in the next town. Oh, and this was all happening between 11pm and 4am. . . . we didn´t get much sleep that night. Crossing the Argentina border was also interesting. It took us over 2 hours to get ... read more

El Bolsón When I read that El Bolsón was known for it's micro-breweries and hiking, I had a feeling we might be visiting the town. We liked it so much that we based ourselves here for a week, spending most of our days hiking in the mountains around the town, or further afield in Lago Puelo or Alerces National Park, and our evenings drinking beer and planning our next adventures. El Bolsón was founded as a hippy community in the 1960's, but don't come here expecting everyone to be lying around stoned and listening to Bob Marley! The people here seemed no different to us from anywhere else in Argentina. It's the first and only non-nuclear community in Argentina, though what exactly this implies beyond the statement I don't know. Climbing Piltri: Our first Patagonian Summit ... read more

So after a week of bum massages and sitting around the hostel in Bariloche hanging out in the warmth, the weather had changed by now and the wind was up and rain was coming more often I decided it was time to leave. Mind you my first stop was only 2 hours down the road but 2 hours is 2 hours. The town is El Bolson and known for being the organic capital of Argentina and having some of the best markets in the country, right up my alley way. I arrived on market day and was lucky enough to get some sunshine in the afternoon to allow me to take a leisurely stroll around and check it out. This town is set in one of the most beautiful places I have seen and again ... read more

Back Home South America » Argentina » El Bolson By tassMarch 24th 2007After 7 years of trotting around we decided it was time for Ilir to visit Patagonia....and with it, the place where I grew up, and the friends I made in my teens ......and the lake where I swam every summer, and the "chacra" where I still had Pepa and Gara, (my boar and horse respectively)..... He agreed expressing how keen he was to eat "asado"day in day out ......with a nice Red Shiraz from Mendoza.... MEN!... read more