Blogs from San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina, South America - page 3

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We filled our last 2 days in Bariloche with more....lakes and mountains! But first we popped into the town museum which has a small room of natural history exhibits (stuffed birds and animals!) and information about the region's geology/geography/flora/fauna. Here we discovered that the armadillo that we thought we saw on our first visit to the country about 10 years ago was probably a pichi rather than a large hairy armadillo. The upstairs room had a history of the inhabitants of the whole country with the various settlers, civil wars, native populations in different regions and how most of them were wiped out. This was all in Spanish so we we picked our way through some of it but you'll not be surprised to know that the railways were largely built by the Brits. However, theirs ... read more
Tronador
Victoria Modesta from Isla Victoria
Arrayan tree


I said final goodbyes to the rest of the group on the plane at Puerto Montt and left them to continue on to Santiago. The taxi took me through awful Friday night traffic to my guesthouse. I was slightly nervous when he turned onto a piece of waste ground with a couple of stray dogs and then up a very steep narrow cul de sac stopping at the top. Ahead behind a gate were very steep stairs and I stood in driving rain at the gate trying to get someone to answer the doorbell. What I hadn't noticed was that there was a key in the other side of the gate which Francisca had to show me when she eventually came down! Things improved rapidly after that - a nice room, welcoming place and great views. ... read more
View from Cerro Campanario
View from Cerro Campanario
We're at....Cerro Campanario


Ahhhh Barriloche we truly fell in love with this place! We came from busy Buenos Aires to the calm surrounds of beautiful Barriloche. There were an abundance of cats and dogs to cuddle, snow-capped mountains to gaze upon, yummy tapas and Malbec to consume and incredibly friendly hosts Pablo and Samanta made us feel completely at home. Our most favourite thing that we did was travel up to one of the incredible look out points on a chair lift. Tasty biscuits made from short bread and caramel and the best hot chocolate ever in the history of hot chocolate is also available in this gorgeous part of the world. This is another MUST DO and stay at the Peninsula Petit hotel.... read more
Amazing burger
Burger place
Town square


On Monday (30th march) myself and some others from my hostel left Calafate for an 27hr bus trip to Bariloche, the journey its self was long and not as comfortable as I had hoped. There is only one bus company from El Cal to Bariloche so we had no choice with the ticket price or seats, and even though we had paid for "cama" the bus we were put on was "semi-cama", it was also freezing cold and no pillows or blankets were provided, some people hadn't brought a coat/blanket with them. Our bus had movies playing for the whole trip (not good ones), everyone was glad to arrive at our destination by 9pm on Tuesday evening. Bariloche is a lovely Swiss style town, it is the Chocolate capital of the world. I was here just ... read more


We drove our rental car from Fruitillar, Chile towards Villa La Angostura, Argentina. It was rainning hard so we did not stop along the way. We got to the border and the procedure is you check in with the Chile police, they stamp your passport and then go to the customs window to get permission to leave the country. No one spoke English and our Spanish was not good enough for us to understand why they would not let us leave Chile. They stamped our passport and drew lines through it meaning we did not have permission. It turns out we could not take the rental car out of the country. You need a permit and it would take eight days to get it. We decided to leave the car in Chile and we would enter ... read more
The lines across the stamp mean we can not leave.
View from our room at View Hotel.
New friends in the park.


After enjoying the mountians and Patagonia it was time to say good bye to this vast and beauitful part of the world. The journey to the Argentinan lake district began with a 25 hour bus ride and our first mishap. Upon arriving at the bus station at 11:30pm Sandra discovered that she had forgotten her purse (including wallet). As we frantically searched our bags in the hope that the missing purse was in fact just packed, an Argentinan girl seeing off a friend took notice of our predicament. We explained our issue and she offered to inquire at the restaurants we had visited that day. She ended up finding Sandra's purse and returning to the bus station the next evening and talked the bus driver into delivering it to Bariloche. Sandra got her purse back, with ... read more
Campsite at sunset
View point from the road
Look-out point


Bariloche, el destino nos trajo a este hermoso sitio al sur de la Argentina, llegamos al terminal tarde en la noche, el bus se había retrasado desde su partida en Valdivia, en vez de llegar a las 5 llegamos antes de las 10 pm, no teníamos reservaciones en hotel ni dinero argentino, el terminal resultó ser pequeño y la mayoría de sitios estaban cerrados. David fue a intentar entender como llegar a la zona de hostales o sitios para cambiar dinero.... Fue a una de las casetas de venta de pasajes, pregunto y allí al lado estaba nuestro hermano que hasta ahora no habíamos conocido, pero que resultó ser un alma conocida y hermana.... Juan carlos ofreció llevarnos a la zona de hospedajes y acercarnos al sitio de su tía que cambia dinero... En el carro ... read more
Longko Inacayal
Con nuestros hermanos
Lago Nahuel Huapi


18. Dezember, Puerto Montt Zuerst haben wir das Touristenbüro besucht, wo wir die nächsten paar Tage planen konnten. Danach gingen wir ins Büro der Schifffahrtsgesellschaft für die 3-Seentour nach Argentinien. Wir sind entlang der Küste zum Fischerhafen spaziert und haben im oberen Stockwerk des Fischmarktes in einem der vielen kleinen Restaurants eine lokale Spezialität gegessen: auf der Platte gab es riesige Muscheln, eine Kartoffel, eine Art überdimensionale Gnocchi, ein Stück Hühnchen und Schweinerippchen, welche alle zusammen in einer Suppe gekocht wurden. Für das Nachtessen haben wir uns auf dem Fischmarkt einen geräucherten Lachs und im Supermarkt einen Riesling gekauft. Die Rezeptionistin hat für uns das urchige Jacuzzi mit Holz eingeheizt, wobei das Wasser erst spät in der Nacht knapp 30° warm war. 19. Dezember, Puerto Montt - Ancud (Chiloé) Da es am ... read more
Puerto Montt Urchiges Jacuzzi
National Park Cucao
Städtchen Castro


17 décembre 2014 - Jour 61 On passe la première partie de la journée dans un bus, pour changer... Franchement, à ce stade je commence un peu à saturer des bus. Surtout quand on t'annonce un trajet de 5h30 à l'achat du ticket mais qu'à cause de travaux et du passage de la douane il se transforme en 7h! Heureusement les paysages deviennent un peu plus intéressants du côté argentin. On est sur une route de montagne, au milieu d'une belle forêt et on aperçoit des sommets enneigées au travers. On traverse une première station de ski hyper chic, on se croirait à Crans-Montana. C'est une ville avec des petits chalets en bois pour les boutiques du centre-ville et des propriétés de riches en périphérie. L'ambiance est pratiquement la même à San Carlos de Bariloche, en ... read more
Centre civil
Quelles tartes!
Cerro Catedral


nach einer ungestörten nachtruhe, auch wenn ich immer noch ziemlich paranoid bin, wird jause geschmiert und dann der cerro otto, der hausberg von bariloche, bestiegen. mit dem uns mittlerweile gut vertrauten bussystem erreichen wir den fuß des berges, der sogar mittels gondel erreichbar ist! in den “frühen” morgenstunden (es ist erst elf! und manches öffnet hier erst zu mittag!) scheint noch kein lift-betrieb zu herrschen und so lassen wir uns höchstoffiziell von einer polizistin den camino zeigen. der “weg” führt fast senkrecht anfangs zwischen wohnhäusern, später in mitten der staubigen pampa und direkt unter den gondeln, steilstens gen gipfel. das ist mit abstand der hässlichste “wanderweg”, den wir je gegangen sind! ein weit unten freundlich mit dem schwanz wedelnder hund begleitet uns den ganzen staubig-steinigen weg hinauf und das, gemeinsam mit der spektakulären aussicht über den ... read more
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