El Bolson Hostels - Reviews and Rates

When you are surrounded by woods, sipping champagne made from elderberries and popping chestnuts covered in honey into your mouth, you can´t help but feel a bit like a bear, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood....maybe Goldielocks, more aptly in my case. You can´t help but feel a bit magical while you blend into the wilderness. Like you want to g...

so, zac and a few other friends of ours just jumped off a mountain, about 6000 feet up (imagine jumping off the platform where the Tram in 'Burque stops at the top), and glided down in a most glorious way after witnessing the Andes in their true splendor, and at their eye-level, as well! We have also just concluded a very fun and relaxing weeken...

Just a quick one to finish off the tale of El Bolson. We had a lazy day on Thursday, as predicted, enjoying looking around the market, eating empanadas in the plaza and watching some kids hoisting a plastic bag up the town flagpole. We had a rather nice icecream in the afternoon from Jauja, a famous icecream place that is all around the Lake Dis...

Hola from El Bolson, a small town in a valley in the Andes. It is also in a microclimate and in a supposed energy centre, so is a very different atmosphere to the image-conscious ski centre of Bariloche. We arrived on Monday, by bus, a mere two-hour journey. We went straight to our hostel, which is a small family run place and is the nicest plac...

Before heading on further into Patagonia we had one last weekend in Bariloche. We spent this 'in training' for our hiking plans further south by going for a walk up to the nearby peak of Cerro Catedral. The local mountaineering outfit had recommended it to us as a good one day walk that should take about 7 hours. The big plus was that the walk b...

So, we´re in a little town called El Bolson right now. It reminds me so much of Bend, with lots of mountains and lakes nearby. We´ve been here for 5 days now, and we´re headed off to Buenos Aires tomorrow or the next day. We hiked up to a Refugio-Campground yesterday and stayed the night. It was one of the most beautiful places I´ve seen, with a...

Stamp. Stamp. And we were in Argentina again. These border crossings are such a joke. You literally get out of the car, hand the passport over, get it stamped and drive off. They don´t seem to worry about anything down here. Rolled through Esquel without stopping, looked not too much different than when I was there in summer. We were headed to E...

Another damn bus ride, actually, make that 3. I left Calafate at 4 in the morning, got back to Rio Gallegos at 8am, left for a place called Comodoro Rivadavia (just south of Puerto Madryn), waited there for 2 hours, got another bus to El bolson which arrived 30 hours after leaving the original place. The best thing about the trip was that I was ...

It's my second day in town. The Farm Olympics got off to a remarkable start today. Last week, I scoured the entire web for the information about the event. But I didn't find a single site. Luckily, I'm here. This morning I went to the Ox race!! I could never imagine such a race existing on earth, but I've seen it with my own eyes. It's incredibl...

El Bolson is a tiny little country town set beneath some breathtakingly huge mountains. The place had a really nice vibe about it, with plenty of freindly locals and a really lovely hippy market...... unfortunately, however, we were unable to explore the surrounding area as it rained the whole time we were there!!!! the first night was not the m...