Hotel Costa Limay Neuquen

We took an overnight bus from Mendoza to Neuquen. This turned out<br>to be a bit more eventful than we were expecting. <br><br>We had been on the road for less than an hour and were settling in to go to sleep, when<br>suddenly there was the sound of smashing glass. People started yelling<br>'don´t stop, don't stop' but we didn't know what was going on. Then I<br>(Nat) turned around and realised that the window next to me had<br>shattered into lots of little pieces ...

... Plasma 42'', baño enorme, sillones varios, WiFi, etc. Lo mas importante es que se salía directamente a la pileta que estaba afuera junto al hidromasaje con el agua a 42°C. Ahi estuvimos por espacio de 1 hora donde la cara se me congelaba por estar fuera del agua pues hacía -2°C.<br><br>Relajados dormimos a pierna suelta luego de cenar pizza en el casino.

... in the searing heat and asking many other bus drivers how I should get to the bus station, and who all directed me to different bus's, which weren't going to the bus station either, a bus arrived that I recognised as the one which had brought me to the town the night before.. What joy! But the was now on his break, so a further 20 mins delay off we went.. I finally made it to the bus station and took my bus to Villa El Chocon. PHEW!!

... was 3km south of Villa Chocon. We couldn´t see the turn off but eventually found it...even though there was no sign for one of their biggest attractions! Unfortunately the footprints don´t stand out very well in the photos but they were impressive. We stayed in a hotel on the main street so it was quite noisy, especially when a wedding procession went by as they all honked their car horns. Didn´t mind this at 9pm but they ...

... A horrible chemical smell omitting from the air conditioning, and the fact I wasn´t allowed to go to the toilet for number two, made this a sleepless night. So I arrived in a new province tired, and in need of a toilet. And then the car that I had hired needed a credit card, physicalmente, so I was in trouble. Feeling worse than I should have, and without a means of transport I was seriously considering packing it in and heading to ...

... the north of the city. Otherwise, the plains are broken up by oil rigs, the massive power lines going northward, a few wild horses and goats, and the shrines on the side of the road (when someone dies there, there might be anything from a small white cross like in NZ to a 10 foot structure made of brick, concrete or wood, with tiled roof, a grate at the front, and photos of the departed, plastic flowers, holy water, etc inside. Sometimes they even have a ...

... number of more or lessa rtistic shots, it was really cool. In the evening we got late to the birthday party, which was more of a familly thing, and then the girls and Fabian took me to a nightclub, which was quite big. All along, I just enjoyed just being there living with them and speaking spanish all the time. _______________________________________ ____________________ Have a look at Peacefrog Summary Page

... a museum and seeing a reproduction. Having the fosiles in front of you or in your hands just makes it all more... real? The way Rubbens Carolinii discovered the Giganotosaurus Carolinii and other fossiles is "simple": in this aride area, the rios create canyons. These canyons are usually dry, but after rain the water flows and takes away a bit of the soft rock...unearthing paleontological and archeological treasures. Carolini was an amateur paleontologist ...

... they not say "er, by the way, you know we are not going into town, we will leave you on the side of the road". That is what an Argentinian would do. And a Chilean even more. So why? I don't get it. And Neuquen is a modern and rich city as I said, nothing like if these people had never seen someone from somewhere else before.... Maybe I should get back into travelling habbits such as 1-trust only what you see and 2 -if you have to rely ...

... nice, for a city. I went to a hotel, found in the guidebook and at the tourist office. First, the listed price was very high, but I could not get cheaper. Second, the listed price was wrong: it was in fact 60 pesos, not 40. But anyway, they had no vacancies. finding the "cheap" (40-60 pesos) hotels in this city was not the easiest of things. I found another one. Full. And another one. Full too. Anothe one. Full for now... oh yeah, maybe there could ...