Hotel Caupolican San Martin de los Andes

... athletic and had done the four peaks challenge. I set off up the hill/mountain occasionally checking that my speed was ok for them, not too slow. As if too fast ha, and what I love most about the innocence of youth, they're really kind to old people. NO...they replied...my pace is good, fine, and just right. Feeling good I missed the turn for the trail. Instead we hugged the teeth of the mountain ridge with views across all the ranges. Stunning. But we ...

... border takes us 3.5 hours - twice as long as we had thought. Hard work, but not a patch on what our cyclist friends have to endure. You can tell the force of the wind by looking at the water...white tops mean it's blowing pretty hard. Our view of the Rio Grande shows up as a dirty green and white houndstooth check. Any kitesurfer out there today would probably be implanted in Jupiter by now. At the border to Chile, a Polish couple come up to us and check we are OK. They are ...

... Hotel, you get the feel of a personal home. With only six guestrooms, the property does look like a private estate. It is located on a large piece of property, facing the Rio Hermoso (Hermoso River). Knowing that there are no other accommodations or buildings in the area, that it is situated all by itself on the river, gave us this feeling of psychological as well as physical space. No matter where you are, you will ...

... we return to our room, Harvey has two important findings: 1. With the power loss, we lost our connection to the internet. Harvey had found a streaming website for one of his favorite television shows, House, and had set it to stream. Harvey takes a break from his solution-finding to go to the bathroom and finds... 2. We have no running water and the toilet does not flush. We go downstairs to report this and find that the generator ...

... I should be doing or of the past are rarely with me anymore. I have to have patience with myself as I analyze or put things on a to do list. In a city, I feel bombarded with the hubbub of people, drivers, visual and noise stimulation; I feel I have to shut my senses down. In Nature, I feel more comfortable and can open up my senses and relax. I come to the awareness today that instead of mourning this loss, maybe this is an opportunity for ...

... Argentina really is. We drive for miles and mile and barely see another car. The lake is massive and very pretty, but unfortunately the volcano which was right beside the lake seems to have disappeared into the clouds. We head back to San Martin and dinner for the night which is one of those BBQ lambs (well not a whole one, but getting on that way!) - absolutely delicious. Argentina is definitely the place to come if you like meat.

A hostel that felt like a boarding school....staff that scolded us and signs with no ´please´or ´thank you´. Comfortable enough but we felt like children. Also found out that there were rooms with bed bugs....an American couple we´d met in El Bolson moved into our room as theirs was swarming in the little buggers... San Martin de Los Andes, pretty, quaint in a gingerbread house kind of way. Wooden shopfronts, a sickly tourist feeling like we were in an artificial world but lovely ...

... uns**en Hint**n nach unten Rutschen koennen, sup**! Wir muessen auch uns**e Spikes tragen, denn ab und zu ist alles v**eist. Um 5pm sind wir wied** in uns**e Jugendh**b**ge, voellig **ledigt ab** gluecklich. Und am naechsten Tag geht´s in die Th**e zur Erholung. Und nun ist es an d** Zeit, nach Argentinien zu wechseln, und wir entscheiden uns fu** den langen Weg nach San Martin de los Andes. Wir fahren durch kleine Do**f**, Waeld** und an Seen vorbei und halten in Pu**to ...

... bank to get onto a rough path of sorts, so we figured this must be the right way up to the viewpoint. It also had a nice view back over the beach.<br><br><br><br>We kept walking for about 30 minutes, always uphill. After managing to talk Katie out of taking various smaller paths leading up to the top of the hill ("I'm SURE it's this one Al", etc...), I soon managed to find ...

Bariloche, ookwel bekend als de chocolade stad van Argentinie. En dat merk je als je door de straten van dit stadje loopt...overal lonken de meest bijzondere creaties naar je vanuit de winkelruiten. We hebben het getest...en het smaakt ook nog eens zeer goed. Aldus, met een wat misselijk gevoel zit ik hier in een internetcafe een volgend verslag voor jullie te typen. Bariloche bevind zich in het hart van het Lake ...