Las Restingas Hotel de Mar Puerto Piramides

... s real beauty was at its coastline. Let´s picture what it looks like in the desert... and here we are. A bare landscape that is covered with small shrubs, guanicos (the native relative to a llama), maras (South Americas largest rodent), sheep, and most of all... dirt. But we knew the real adventure was soon to come at Punto Piramides. <br><br>Punto Piramides is the only community within the reserve. It is home to roughly 500 residents and is the home ...

... it when we got back.<br> 3rd &#8211; After a couple of hours work we had got the filters cleaned and tested and we are back up and running again. Since it is a gorgeous day with clear blue skies and no wind we have decide to go on a sunset whale watching boat trip. We got on the boat, at about 6 pm, whilst it was sitting on a cradle on the beach. Once on board they pushed the boat and cradle into the water and we motored off. Our first stop was to see three Southern ...

... males have huge dorsal fins - we<br>were watching Mel (aparently he´s famous on these shores). The area is<br>tightly controlled and only those who pay the steep permit fee can<br>descend to the beach (mainly wildlfie photographers - National<br>Geographic were there today). It wasn´t long before the peformance<br>began - one minute two Orcas were circling in the water, the next they<br>were at 90 degrees to the beach heading ...

... kid on the block een poging doen dicht bij de harem (per vent 2 tot 130, dan heb je wel je vinnen vol) te komen en direct stormt de boss met grof geweld over alles en iedereen heen om hem weg te jagen. WOW! Daar moet je niet mee fokken. Op een gegeven moment zagen we een moeder luidbrullend langs de kust zwemmen en voor onze ogen kwam er een heel klein piepje van een jong. Moeder stierde gelijk uit het water en was direct ...

... l'aide d'une paille pour filtrer la boisson). C'est aussi une boisson qui a ses traditions et règles! C'est en effet assez amère, quoi qu'il existe une version sucrée, qui l'est beaucoup moins. N'empèche, j'ai tout de suite adoré, contrairement à des avertissements que l'on m'avait fait avant de partir pour l'Argentine (je ne citerai pas de nom)!

... Entwed** man wohnt in voellig ueb**teu**ten Hotelzimm**n, od** man zeltet kostenlos (in d** Nebensaison) auf dem staedtischen Zeltplatz. Die Wahl ist also einfach. Es ist auch das **ste Mal, dass wir einen halbwegs gefuellten Zeltplatz vorfinden, denn sonst waren auss** uns noch maximal 2-3 and**e Zelte da. Wir grillen uns noch schnell uns**e Steaks und schlafen gemuetlich in uns**em Zelt ein. Am naechsten Tag geht's es gleich mal auf's Walboot. Es ist Ende Novemb** und damit ...

... on our private beach (okay, there were two guys looking for sea shells), Nathan and were able to swim a hundred meters or so from a whale and her calf, a really incredible experience. I´d love to come back someday when I´m older and take one of the aforementioned whale boat rides. But while we can still run after them, I think we´ll stick to finding them ourselves. Photos here! You can play a fun game of find the sea lion

... spent the next while wandering through all the souvenir shops and popped into the Tourist Info place, just for something to do. What I realised very quickly was that everything that I had come here to see was at least 80kms from where I was and about 35kms from each other. So once I adjusted to the fact that I was going to have to outlay some money, at minimum for a taxi, the rest was easy. In a town as small as this, it didn`t take long to find the guy that served as the local taxi driver ...

... the sea lion pups. Pretty hard to miss if they had turned up. Heading back to the car we spotted the armadillo again and, entertaining the car park crowd, were two young foxes, playing rough and tumble. They really are beautiful animals. From Punta Norte we drove along the coast to Punta Cantor. Just before we got there we stopped off at a small colony of Magellanic penguins. I don't know what it is about penguins that makes them so unbearably cute. They were on ...

... of Sea Lions. Just hundreds of them, and their recently born little ones. Its difficult to appreciate on the pictures and videos that we have included how amazing it is to be so close to them, and the loud noise of their cries and fights. Stop 2: Caleta Valdes: the colonies of Magellanic Penguins. They are just loveable. Again difficult to show in pictures (given our simple camera) but it was fun. We also managed to spot a penguin from the Antartic colonies...funnily enough ...