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Bariloche Slideshow
Bariloche
Travel Blogs from Bariloche, Argentina
Frey, revisited
This is a top pick! ... and enjoying the extraordinary nice weather. The birthday But first came my birthday, which I celebrated down in Bariloche. As a coincidence there was a wine, chocolate and chees tasting night at the hostal the night before my birthday. A ...
Again
This is a top pick! Again, indeed... Together with Colleen and Carey I traveled on to Bariloche, where we spend two easy days, recovering from Christmas eve and having a Christmas dinner (as in Canada people celebrate Christmas on the 25th). We shared that Christmas ...
Bariloche
This is a top pick! En-route to the Lake district we stooped for one night in the town of Bariloche. Unfortunately, I don not have any photos of my short visit. I was in search of something off the beaten path and left the backpacking town ...
Bariloche Beauty
This is a top pick! ... was all so nice, it was difficult to concentrate on the road. We all thoroughly enjoyed this entry into the popular tourist destination of Bariloche. Once again, we checked into a hostel, and took the last available beds, a 3 bed room, and a single bed in ...
Winter Wonderland - Bariloche Revisited
This is a top pick! ... snowy mountain passes behind us - thankfully successfully negotiated - we dropped down to Lago Nahuel Huapi and arrived in a very different Bariloche than the one we remembered from our visit in February. The summer season is now over and the ski slopes ...
Chocolate Lovers Paradise!
This is a top pick! Took the scenic 7 hour trip from San Martin to Bariloche and arrived late afternoon.... another lovely picturesque town in the outdoor playground of Patagonia. This is as far south as we are travelling before heading back north to Buenos Aires.... ...
HITCHING TO BARILOCHE - PART II
This is a top pick! ... legend of the Argentinian gaucho began exciting me so much I wanted myself to work on a farm. Nearing the city of Bariloche, snow-triangle-topped Andes mountains stood beautifully in the distance. Below the road to the left, large powdery ...
20 hour bus ride to Bariloche with beds!
This is a top pick! ... people in front of during low season. NIKOLAS VERSION We were going a 20 hours bus ride that was leaving Buenos Aires to Bariloche . Mom had booked us on the cama suite. Cama means bed in Spanish but it wasn’t totally flat, ...
Heart of Argentina Lake District
This is a top pick! We pull into Bariloche beautifully situated at the other end of Lake Nahuel Huapi at the foot of Cerro Otti. Another tourist town geared for winter skiing with numerous hotels, bed and breakfast lodgings, expensive restaurants and chocolate shops amongst ...
ITīS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY (THE $7)
This is a top pick! ... entertain them. Not a bad gig, eh? My, how the times have changed ... Since Iīve returned to live in Bariloche, Argentina, itīs been about ten days. Itīs an obsessive challenge of mine to sustain myself as well as possible in the ...
Horseback riding with Asado for lunch! Yum!
This is a top pick! We went for the all day horseback riding at a ranch called Estancia in spanish! It was a beautiful ride through the mountains. We had a great lunch with different grilled meats (Asado). We then headed out for a second ride where we saw ...
Strange Christmas
This is a top pick! ... getting back to Oz, although Andy tried to melt some chocolate for pancakes and it wouldn`t melt.... Christmas - La Navidad In Argentina they celebrate Christmas with a big dinner on Christmas Eve (Noche Buena) so we had a big dinner at the hostel ...
The Great Outdoors
This is a top pick! ... a complete success! It started with a quite reasonable notion of doing some gentle walking in the famed lake district of Argentina. We asked around, we went to the professionals for advice and maps (Argentinaīs equivalent of the national trust), "There ...
Snowboarding in Bariloche! Awesome!
This is a top pick! I had thought that we would go trekking and kayaking but as soon as we found out that there was still snow on the mountain, Nik wanted to try snowboarding! So we rented some ski clothes and headed up to Cerro Catedral the next day! it was the ...
Patagonia Lake District
This is a top pick! ... sleezy waiter who woke you up in the middle of the night saying "I canīt sleep" and "do you want more champagne"! Bariloche is a īchocolate boxī style town, with wooden challet type buildings, St Bernards in the main square with kegs of Brandy around ...
BARILOCHEīS BEST THING
This is a top pick! ... lately, and I havenīt found a job. My New Yearīs resolution should be to not run out of money. Most places in Argentina donīt have many jobs these days. It was a very developed country, but olī ex-President Menem done ruined the country ...
Getting There And Away Is ALL The Fun!.
This is a top pick! ... the scenery changed from flat plains to the awe inspiring beauty of the snow capped Andes Mountains. Nearing Bariloche, persistent rain kept falling obscuring the view somewhat but we had glimpses of gorgeous purple, blue and yellow roadside ...
Bariloche (or Little Switzerland)
This is a top pick! ... were still in Argentina as it seemed we had driven straight into Switzerland (chalets and chocolate included). We discovered that Bariloche was founded by swiss pioneers and that a german architect had actually designed the town. We found a ...
Lake Crossing to Bariloche, Argentina
This is a top pick! ... region. It starts in Puerto Montt/Puerto Varas and takes you through the Andes by a combination of boat and bus and ends in Bariloche, Argentina. We chose the version that stops for the night in Peulla, a hamlet in the heart of the Andes. We left Puerto ...
And its off to Argentina...
... out that the Chilean guard had stamped half our bus with the wrong stamp so they let it go and we glide on into Argentina!! Arrive in Bariloche in the afternoon and are a little spaced out after the bus journey, but what does strike us is the setting. ...
Yay, the ash cloud cleared!
Approaching Bariloche was like driving into some post-apocalyptic world. The town has been heavily affected by the recent eruptions from a nearby volcano in Chile and regularly gets covered in a cloud of ash. Looking out the windows of the bus we could ...
TANGO LESSONS
This is a top pick! ... "go right." With tango, things would be "out of sight." I was the other night in an ordinary discotech - in Bariloche, still, I still havenīt left. Young people around me popped back-and-forth to the crappy, accordian-repetative "kumbia" music ...
Happy Holidays
This is a top pick! This entry is a holiday entry. My family sent my some wonderful pics and this space is specifically reserved for holiday thoughts and feelings (if there are any). Happy Holidays to all my friends. ...
Beautiful lake district..a little piece of heaven!
This is a top pick! We woke up the next morning to realise weīd pulled a trump card in choosing to go to Bariloche! As we got closer to the town, we passed more and more quaint little alpine villages and beautiful lakes, forests & mountains! We got dropped off in a very ...
Happy Birthday Kelly!
After a long bus ride arrive in Bariloche in time to help Kelly celebrate her birthday, also did some whitewater rafting from ...
Back in Business in Bariloche
... speaking clientele. We made some friends and got some good travel tips while feasting on the view. Bariloche itself is a bit touristy, with immense chocolate shops and pricey restaurants, but it is a great ...
Water and horses
We got up early to catch our ride to the river where we were going to go white water rafting. They said it was supposed to be a class 3-4, but it is fall here so I didnīt think it was going to be that big. When we arrived, we were given another ...
Bariloche
... the trip so far Covering journey from BA, Iguazu and down to Tierra Del Fuego and up through Chile to Bariloche Argentina. All photos are here at http://picasaweb.google.com/barnabybrittan/THEWRONGWAYDOWN2009 Click on and have a squiz! Hasta ...
SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE
... the same as a map grid, in blocks, much like any other in South America except we didn't visually feel we were in Argentina. The shops, restaurants and hotels in fact every retail outlet was constructed of wood, logs and stone and once again had the ...
Bariloche - Pretty Patagonia
... has missed target and landed in Switzerland such is the profusion of snowy mountains, lakes, log cabins and interestingly, cuckoo clocks. Bariloche has that distinct holiday town feel. By winter it is a ski resort, by summer a base for trekking. Right ...