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Wildlife Central
And we are back on a bus again! This time a much more reasonable 13 hour one. And I have just woken up to views of the snow-capped Andes, very different from the coastal location we just left. As an aside, I don't know if we've mentioned how late people eat dinner in Argentina. We were debating if we'd get dinner on our bus since it left at 9:30pm …
Through the dorm
... information basically where the town is. They hand us a map and we discover it is nothing like the guidebook version. A major piece of rubbishness by Lonely Planet there.
We start searching hostels and are greeted by a wall of unavailability and massive prices, far higher than elsewhere in Agrentina (and that´s saying something). We have to settle for a dorm in the end which is more expensive than the double rooms ...
Close encounter with whales
... on where to take walks, where to see the sea lions, which museums to go to, which restaurants offer discounts, etc. to make sure we give her high satisfaction marks... but eventually when we stand up and shake her hand she does stop talking.
At 1pm, right about high tide, we are turning off from the unpaved road into one of the many ...
We're almost halfway to Ushuaia
... back of Jambo. It was obviously some type of reaction to the meat or some other ingredient in the sausage. Violent and rapid it certainly was, and at the time seriously worrying with thoughts of calling for a doctor; finding one in sleepy El Condor at that time of night would have been unlikely. Fortunately, the next morning, apart from a legacy of slight itching the worst was over. So no more spicy Argentinian sausage1
The local cat took up residence in the car during ...
Patagonia in Argentina
... Chris got to experience a rogue wave. Luckily she was behind a window that held. The wave reached up the the 6th deck and went right to the top of the window. Deck 6 is an open deck and I have used it to walk on. If you had been on that deck you would have had to deal with 10 feet of water. Very exciting... We are on deck 10 shown in the photo so are safe, we think.
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