San Martin de los Andes San Carlos de Bariloche

After we had finished hiking in El Chalten, we returned to El Calafate and spent another day there to wind down the time (and give our tired legs a rest!) until our flight to San Carlos de Bariloche. As expected, we didn't get up to much other than to look at some options for the next part of our trip.

Whether by brilliant planning or …

Echt waar, het ware verhaal komt zo.

De busreis van Buenos Aires naar Bariloche, het Lake District, duurt maar liefst 22 uur. Dit is wel een geheel andere ervaring dan de eerder busreizen, drie tot vier maaltijden met champagne toe en een eigen tvītje.

De omgeving hier is echt prachtig, bekend van de zeven meren die op ongeveer …

Why is Angelo smiling?
















It may be because, as an avid Chilean mountain biker, he (like many other outdoor enthusiasts) has found a paradise in the 100s of miles of mountain biking available to him from San Martin de los Andes. The day we met him, he had just …

... up completely missing the lakes and bypassing everything we wanted to see. Somehow we managed drive around the town of San Martin de los Andes, which we originally thought would be too far to get to, by a good hour or so ...

... la siete lagos (7 lakes road) A bunch of us hired a car and drove the road between Bariliche and San Martin de Los Andes. This route is famous in Bariloche, mainly for its amazing lakes, scenery, and tranquility. But it is also known because the road is ...

... a lot of loughters, I told them also about my plans of getting an early bus and get to Villa la Angostura and maybe San Martin de los Andes, willing to see on the way the 7 lakes... Bariloche area is famous for the beauty of the lakes... as you will see ...

... nice city). From here i headed into the lake districts national parks. Going along the chilean border i arrived at San Martin de los Andes, a swiss like town on a beautiful lake. From here you enter the Park National Huapi which covers some ...

...  and worked out our next move. This was the tourist info centre! How cool? After the car hire joke that was San Martin de los Andes, we managed to find a reasonable quote for tomorrow with a local company and then went to book our transport to El ...

... the border with Argentina which we crossed with little trouble as the dawn was just kicking up.  It was then on down to San Martin de los Andes on a mixture of tarmac & dirt/metal roads.  San Martin is a neat little town set o a lake and we ...

      I crossed the Andes into Argentina with Reece. The 1st night was an unscheduled stop in San Martin de Los Andes, having been assured that we could continue south when in fact the last bus had left hours before! It was no ...

... hot so it's a great refresher. We've hired a car for two days to get off the tourist track for a bit and drive the Circuito de Siete Lagos (Circuit of Seven Lakes) - a route through two national parks to a lovely town called San Martin de los ...

... soweit. Ich weiss meine Passportnummer auswendig!!! Es gibt hier schlichtweg keinen Tag oder Ort an dem man seine Passportnummer nicht irgendwo hinschreiben muss. Sogar in der Reggaetonklasse... Morgen fahr ich nach San Martin de los Andes. Bis bald. ...

... . Zur Feier unserer bislang laengsten Etappe gehen wir lecker Essen und freuen uns auf ein paar Ruhetage hier in Bariloche, ehe sich unsere Wege erneut trennen werden und es fuer mich zunaechst wieder solo nach San Martin de los Andes weitergehen ...