Hosteria Portal De Piedra Villa La Angostura

... staff are also helpful and friendly. However, our room on the second floor was noisy; there doesn't appear to be good sound proofing between the rooms. Also, when you walk down the hallway you can't avoid making noise because of the creaky wood floor and you will hear anyone talking as they walk down the hall. If you stay here, be sure to ...

... treats. The women are making the chocolate in the shop and everything looks delicious - nuts and cream filling, milk, semi-sweet, dark...so much variety! Isn't it our responsibility as tourists to sample such an Argentinian specialty? Oh yes, we came here to eat dinner! We put away the chocolates, and locate the beef restaurant La Pioneros but it is closed on Mondays. We walk over to see if Macarena is open as it was recommended by someone on ...

... and follow the drive as it curves left, right, left, right again in this narrow single lane surrounded by a carefully tended garden with multi-colored blooming flowers. Finally we are at what appears to be at lake level and El Faro appears! We figure out that there is one way in and out and the green light at the top was indicating that no one was going up, so we were okay to proceed! On this trip, Harvey has refreshed himself on ...

... been cold on two days in the last three and a half months. For instance, one morning, we woke up and there was a frost - what a novelty! At breakfast, we were told it was -3 degrees Celsius outside. See, that's cold. Sooo, our time in Bariloche: didn't really start off all that well, with Ray complaining that his sore tooth was getting worse. I had noticed this in the previous couple of days and suggested he ask our host to try to make an appointment in ...

... s hard to know where to start so I am beginning ...

... beautiful opera houses was closed for restoration, you couldn´t even get a good look at the exterior because it was covered in scaffolding. Oh well next time. While I was in Buenos Aires I also took in a tango dinner show, it was incredible, the way the dancers moved it´s a wonder they don´t trip over their own feet (I know I would). I also spent a day wondering the cobbled streets and parks of Palermo (one of the barrios), I just wish the weather had been better.

... im Winter, doch auch im Sommer kann man tonnenweise Zeugs machen. Die Menschen sind kaum ueber die Grenze auffallend attraktiver als in Chile, die Strassen sind voll von alten Renaults, Peugeots, Fords und Chevrolets und blau ist die dominante Farbe. Nicht nur des Sees und des Himmels wegen, auch sonst. War was Neues, wenn auch nur wieder ein weiterer Touristenort.

... They were really nice, but super nervous about crossing the border with us in the car, and they kept whispering things like ¨tell them you met us in Bariloche¨, which i found strange, because the borders here are quite relaxed. 4. once we got to Osorno we had to get a city bus to the terminal, and that turned out to be a slight pain in the ass because we ended up missing the terminal, and then we went all the ...

... but very nice and very friendly backpackers. After a few minutes of debating and wondering whether or not if I put on a short skirt and some make-up we would have more luck, we noticed one of the policemen looking our way and with a little encouragement from me, Andy was soon chatting to him and he rather kindly offered to ask drivers who looked like they had enough room whether they could take us. Confident that coming from an official we would ...

... de Lanín, we were straining our necks to catch better glimpses of the volcano, and marvelling at the immense stands of the convoluted monkey puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana). Fairly unique to this area of the world, they are currently fully laden with attractive pine-like cones that from a distance resembled large, colourful blooms. Had we been fly-fishing fanatics, we might have spent weeks near Junín de los Andes - an area famous for its trout, to the extent that a pictorial ...