Hosteria Puerto Palos Puerto Piramides

... nothing to sneeze at in our opinion.<br><br>But we weren´t there to admire the city! So we quickly started shopping the tour agencies to find the best (and most economical) way to see the penninsula. We signed ourselves up and the next morning we were whisked away from the hostel in a tiny car driven by our tour guide - German. We we accompanied by an Argeninian father and his 9 yr old daughter on the tour - so it was very intimate in that little car ...

... way slowly towards the harem to try to take a wife. He did this very slowly and stealthily taking about an hour. At the end he rushed onto the female but she just ran away, leaving her baby. The male followed her and she moved again, but this time called out. At that point the main male heard and came charging over at a very fast rate of knots. The junior on spotting him just turned and fled, quite wise because he was only half the size. Whilst we watched one of the ...

Photos:<br><br>http://www.facebook.com/ album.php?aid=106773&amp;id=542586048&a mp;l=a8a275a074<br><br><br><br>Today we ventured out to Pannisular Valdes, a National reserve for<br>a whole host of land and marine fauna and flora, in the hope of seeing<br>the mighty Orcas (Killer Whales)beaching themselves to get dinner (a<br>seal) or a tasty snack (penguin). It is the perfect time of year for<br>them, but nothing is guaranteed.We ...

... struisvogels... Wat zijn struisvogels toch vreemde beesten, alsof God op de achtste dag van de schepping er achter kwam dat ie nog wat ledematen over had en dacht. He, daar kan ik vast nog wel een beest van maken. Mmm... de knieen buigen wel naar achter en het hoofd bounched mee bij elke beweging en verder lijkt het net een boom, maar toch heb ik het niet slecht al zeg ik het zelf! Op de stempelkaart konden wij ook ...

... gods did not indulge me this time around. There is a 3% chance of seeing orcas come on shore to eat the seals, which sounds cool put quite gruesome at the same time. I was quite excited to see penguins for the first time in the wild. I expect to see even more on my trip tomorrow, but today was great. We saw a colony of with hundreds of Magellan penguins, black and white little ...

... und so mieten wir uns lieb** ein kleines Auto und sind flexibl**. Zu**st ab** fahren auch wir nach Pu**to Madryn, um dort neues Campinggas zu kaufen, das man natu**lich nicht im Flieg** mitnehmen darf. Es gibt eine Menge Campinglaeden im Ort, ab** niemand scheint genau zu wissen, wo sie sind, und bis wir sie nach langem Suchen gefunden haben, sind die meisten b**eits zu. Die and**en bieten die gleichen Koch**systeme an wie wir schon haben, haben ab** g**ade keine passenden Gaskartuschen ...

... cheapskates, decided to stay in the municipal campsite (conveniently located in a sand dune) and watch from the beach. But what a beach! About an hour´s walk down the shore from our tent was the most incredible, deserted beach, with caves, tide pools, whales galore, otherworldly moonscape surroundings, it was pretty much paradise. Nathan and I spent a little too much time in paradise and have some nasty sunburn to show for ...

... and lit the sky in all directions. It was amazing to watch. And with it came the rain which fogged the windows, pelted on the roof and leaked inside down my window and all over my arm rest and through the air vent in the roof next to me. I was tempted to move, briefly, but then I put my polystyrene tea cup underneath the leaking window and remained settled. I was comfy where I was and it was only water anyway. I slept fairly well (despite re-adjusting my position due to numbness of limbs ...

... be orca fins. There is a orca research station there and they had an identification chart of the local orcas showing profile shots of their dorsal fins and white belly markings, with names like Jessica and other benign names for the ultimate predators of the sea. We were dismayed to see on the white-board that the last orca sighting was three weeks earlier and the two were 800m offshore. We had been told that while they do show up in February, March is a better ...

... joined a bus tour, with guide included (she was very good - probably given her German education and blood...her grandparents emigrated from Germany in 1949 to Buenos Aires). As always there was a couple from...yes you guessed it - "Catalunya" (not Spain), and a German couple which had indulged too much on the sugary side of life (luckily for both of them there were plenty of extra seats on the bus and could occupy 2 each). The rest where argentinian nationals, including an ...