Puerto Madryn, Argentina Travel Blogs

Puerto Madryn
Jan 23, 2007 (19 photos)

Alex: Puerto Madryn is a busy little sea side town full of holidaying Argentinians, which, as we arrived in at 16.00 meant trouble of the no hotel room kind. We did the usual walking around various hotels with our backpack until at last we found a ...

How NOT to Learn New Words in Spanish
Jan 19, 2007 (12 photos)

... good friend Yngve from Norway, I left Bariloche and find myself at the Atlantic Ocean again in the city of Puerto Madryn; famous for whale watching, penguins, sea lions and other assorted wild life that come here to feed and breed ...

Penguins in holes?
Oct 22, 2008 (21 photos)

Who knew penguins lived in holes? Four of us hired a car to head to the largest penguin colony outside Antarctica.  Over 350,000 penguins live in this rookery and I guess I expected to see thousands of penguins hanging out on the beach pooping or ...

Taking photos with National Geographic
Oct 23, 2008 (16 photos)

Peninsula Valdez is a massive sand-bar marine-refuge on the Northern Atlantic corner of Argentine Patagonia.  Elephant seals, whales, orcas, penguins, wild llamas, and the worlds largest rabbits (who knew) call the peninsula home. ( ...

A hitchhiker's guide to..actually, don't follow us
Dec 18, 2005 (15 photos)

... 2000 freaking kilometres from where we started this little hitchhiking odyssey. We have however arrived in the lovely seaside town of Puerto Madryn, safe, sound and with some serious adventures under our belt - not to mention almost $100US each that we ...

Sea Lions, Whales, Elephant Seals, Peguins
Oct 7, 2007 (31 photos)

... there each year between august and December but they are on their own cycle and over all they have identified 2000 individual whales in Puerto Madryn and they track their activity. So lucky for us we got to see a mother and her calf play with our boat ...

An arid coast bursting with marine life
Nov 19, 2005 (6 photos)

... of some food and took a table in a pub-restaurant called Mr Jones; there´s a very strong Welsh connection in and around Puerto Madryn: in the mid-1800s to early 1900s, thousands of Welsh farming families settled in the area. The town itself was named after ...

Gab... again!
Oct 20, 2006 (17 photos)

... a last ditch to get on the tour as well, and was very disappointed to have spent $500 on a flight from Bariloche to Puerto Madryn and thought everything had to happen for a reason... five seconds before I appeared from the front of the Chepatoginia hostel. ...

Long Bus Ride
Oct 19, 2006

To say the least, I am really tired from my 24 hour bus journey from El Calafate to Puerto Madryn on the other side of Argentina. But I survived it (albeit a few sore muscles etc.)... glad I´ve got this afternoon to relax, sleep and do practically nothing ...

Whales and other sea life
Nov 16, 2006 (21 photos)

You will have to do with the (fantastic) pictures for now!!

Whale watching
Oct 13, 2004

A whale spit at me today. We went to Puerto Pyramide to go whale watching. The whales can weigh as much as 8 adult elephants (25-35 tonnes) and the females grow to be 15.5 m long with the males slightly shorter at 13.5 m long. We took a boat trip out to ...

Playing with the Dolphins
Oct 22, 2008 (20 photos)

Patagonia is home to the rare black and white Commerson's dolphin - and Puerto Madryn is one of the few places you can go out to see these gregarious creatures that must be on Red Bull. As soon as our Zodiac got out into the bay, ...

Close encounters with whales.
Oct 20, 2008 (14 photos)

  Peninsula Valdez is basically a massive sand bar that extends into the Atlantic ocean with two huge bays that are kind of like beach resorts for Southern Right Whales.   Southern Right Whales are about 40-50 feet in length ...

Peninsula Valdes and Punto Tombo
Feb 2, 2008 (8 photos)

... common language which is pretty funny considering we come from an English-French country...But it worked!  We arrived in Puerto Madryn about midday, booked a hostel through information services and then went to book a tour of the Penguin Rookery at ...

Encounters of the Dutch kind
Feb 28, 2003 (4 photos)

Puerto Madryn Somewhat relieved to see and hear English again after the unintelligble Spanish of Southern Argentina, we found Puerto Madryn to be tourist heaven. Obviously the place is doing very well under the neverending stream of ecowarriors and ...

Buenos Aires - Puerto Madryn
Oct 24, 2003

... we´ve booked for tomorrow will hopefully make the considerable effort in getting here worthwhile. South American cities thus far, Puerto Madryn included, have favoured the ´blocks´ approach to town planning - something I have mixed feelings about. While it ...

Our longest journey yet!!!!!!!!
Sep 8, 2005 (4 photos)

... away!!!! There was even a little sealion messing around underneath the jetty as well! Hopefully this was a sign of things to come! Puerto Madryn had a really nice feel to it actually...bit of a seaside town with a big, long beach, lots of shops & ...

ballenas
Jun 25, 2006 (5 photos)

Resumiendo, para no cansar, esto es como cabo palos, pero que en vez de ver saltar mujolitos, ves saltar unos pedazo de ballenas enormes todo el rato, boca arriba, boca abajo, de lado, etc.... los ves a 20 metros de la playa, en barco, tambien se ven ...

Patagonia and onward
Feb 5, 2006 (7 photos)

So after another 20hour bus ride i went down to a place called Puerto Madryn on the promise of seeing sea lions and Penguins and i wasn´t let down. On the day we arrived we hired out some mountain bikes and rode out to a place called ponto lobo which is ...

Killer Whales on a diet...
Mar 3, 2007 (9 photos)

... , i guess we should have known, we were in Patagonia after all.  So after we'd warmed up again we headed back to the bus and hit back for Puerto Madryn. After some deliberation as to our next stop we eventually caught the late bus headed for Bariloche

Discovering Wales and Whales in Argentina
Oct 21, 2008 (46 photos)

... -cama (partial-bed, referring to how far back the seats recline) bus out to the Argentinian coast, to a town called Puerto Madryn. Every year between May and December, the Southern Right Whales come to nearby Puerto Pirámides to raise their kids, which ...

Wildlife wonderland
Sep 28, 2006 (4 photos)

After our first major bus journey of 26hrs we arrived in the town of Puerto Madryn, from where we hired a car with an Aussie, Swiss and a German and headed for the nearby wildlife sanctuary of Peninsula Valdes. It was amazing, a real wildlife Wonderland! ...

Mais ou s'est caché le PINGOUIN ???
Jan 22, 2008 (6 photos)

... Fera mieux !    18 janvier. 20h. Nos trognes et nos baluchons embarquent à bord d'un second bus. Direction Puerto Madryn. Le ciel est grand... grand.. prend tout l'espace de notre champ de vision. La terre nous dévoile sa courbure ...

What's that in the distance?
May 18, 2008 (32 photos)

... see them. They had eluded us on two other continents, but not this time. Another lucky and satisfying encounter. Thank you Puerto Madryn! Next, another 19 hour bus journey sees us to the big city, Buenos Aires. Steak, tango and football awaits. ...

In search of the Squid and the Whale...
Apr 20, 2007 (7 photos)

... wasn`t in luck, the museum was closed and the whales had obviously had their fill of baby seal the day I visited! Nonetheless, Puerto Madryn wasn`t a complete wash out. I was some sea lions, elephant seals, lots of penguins, an armadillo and lots of llamas ...

Feeling part of Nat Geographic & Discovery channel
Feb 29, 2008 (9 photos)

... many flies for our liking so that end of the beach was not exactly how you would picture a perfect Argentinian beach. Although Puerto Madryn redeemed itself when we discovered bigger than you can eat steaks for 1 pound and wine size bottles of cider for ...

Seals and Killer Whales.
Mar 26, 2008 (9 photos)

In Puetro Madryn now but heading off to Buenos Aires today where we´ ...

So far in Argentina and already 9 days into trip
Jan 27, 2008

... from Evita but everyone looked quite serious...so I thought better of it. Left BA on Wed on a bus headed for Puerto Madryn, Patagonia on Atlantic Coast. Really relaxing town. Seen lots of wildlife in Punto Tombo and the Peninsula Valdes, including ...

Sealions and penguins galore!
Jan 22, 2007 (5 photos)

We pitched our tents just in time as a torrential downpour started and I took shelter in the cook tent (well I was in the cook group anyway!) but fortunately it stopped fairly soon after.  The next day we drove down to the Valdes ...

sealions - more like seakittens!
Feb 19, 2007 (19 photos)

I remember telling my friend Ali about my desire to dive with giant river otters in Patagonia, well, I didnt quite get round to that as they seem to be quite thin on the ground round here. Instead I had the opportunity to have a dive with the Lobo´s (or as ...