Acongagua San Carlos de Bariloche

Bariloche is down in the Argentinean Lake District, just over the border from Puerto Montt. The drive across is through Andean passes and almost entirely in a national park. Prettiest border crossing ever :-)

Our first night was in the expensive MarcopoloInn, another soulless HI hostel. The next day i went hunting for something cosier and cheaper. The last place i checked was the Punto Sur (ex Nomad) Hostel. Martin, the owner was ...

... cream), both Kate and I had a 3 scoop cone!!! Yum.

Totally full of ice cream and chocolate I decided it was about time I had my hair cut, the lady did a really good job despite me being unable to describe how I normally have it cut. No complaints though.

After a BBQ at the hotel, with more steak!!! We had to prepare for the 22 hour bus journey to Buenos Aires the following day… Bring it on!!!

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Mark and Kate

Another border crossing on a long-awaited hassle-free bus (left on time and arrived early), through the stunning mountain scenery of the Andes. Snow covered trees and mountain tops all around and knee deep snow coming over the top. Really pretty... Did have the rather strange experience on the bus of having coffee served in tall drinking glasses with straws... I´m sure the steward meant to put coke in there but ...

You may not want to read this so if I offend you I´m sorry, this is the real world people. I have been out of the country now for what two and a half months. What have I learned? What have I seen? I have seen that most people in the US have been brainwashed. Most people in the US are tuned to CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX NEWS, whatever the news source. You know what they report **** thats right pure ********! The news sources control what we think. They ...

... just before the craziness of NYC and the so-called real world. Kat and Jon finally caught up with us on their South American Travels too so good to see a couple of NYC faces to ease us back into the swing of things before our flight tomorrow In the last few days we have.... Gone horsebackriding in Bariloche (sore **** after 5 hours!) Drove around twenty million lakes and took as many pictures Saw a black glacier...saw a couple of landslides and thunderour ...

... a 35% chance that the path would be further up, a 20% chance that it was below me and a 45% chance that I was completely lost, but also if I was completely lost, that the chance of me being found would be greater on top of the ridge since I could give light signals to town (whereas the side I was on at the moment was uninhabitated. I had to fight for each step, but after one hour suddenly I stood on what was obviously the ...

... gleich seinen eigenen Golfplatz. Ansonsten wird das Besondere wohl eher beim guten Service liegen. Wir werden es wahrscheinlich nie erfahren. Die schweizer Kolonie ist richtig niedlich und bald sogar etwas kitschig, mit ihren vielen keinen Holzhuetten, Cafes und Souvenirlaeden. Wir halten im Cafe Heidi, finden aber statt den Besitzern nur ein Guanaco. Wir sind uns erst nicht so sicher, wie gut wir das finden, dass es so direkt auf uns zu gerannt kommt ...

... good time. So we probably walked about 23km of the 24 so we are only like 1km away from the end which is completely flat ground (so if the ground was a cannon it would be like size 28A) and I´m sort of looking up girls´ skirts, I mean in the trees just do do do do do like and I trip on a rock and bite it. Hah, I´m such a ****ing tard sometimes. I just trekked up and down this ****ing mountain with no problems aside from a few slips and then ...