Lucania Palazzo Hotel Comodoro Rivadavia

... the breaks in the distance, the fisherman at bay, the beauty of it all. We arrive in Comodoro with plenty of time before our next bus to Bariloche. The aussies, me and the English girl find a place for a snack and some tea. I really like the aussies. One couple is carrying a guitar with them and it makes me miss my guitar. Looking forward to playing tunes again soon. The other aussie couple is quiet but once we start talking snowboarding they have ...

No pics...no story. Long bus ride.

Highlights:

Old man with TB still coughing all over me and Kat for 30 hours.
Jean Claude Van Damme movies.
Flamingos and untidentified ground varmit.
Wild cows...i know, not sure how this happened.

Sleep and sleep and sleep. This part of Patagonia looks like plains of Texas. Desolate.

... We have found the real Argentina, where a bottle of coca cola is less than $3 pesos and internet is the same $3 pesos. For us, it is a bargain compared to Ushuaia and Calafate. In this hard working city in the northern Patagonia, kids go to school and families do their grocery shopping in the giant supermarket of Carrefour. Locals are ...

... fence posts. The lowlands around the lakes supporting rich wildlife and plants. Slowly the landscape changes and becomes very dry with huge rock faces next to the highway, deep veins of red and green stone cutting through the dull flat grey of the surrounding walls. I noticed on several occasions large black beetles scurrying ...

... in a town where no one else is here and I'm the only person in the hostel!! I opened my travel guide and found another one quite quickly and hailed a cab. I had arranged to meet Ian in Mendoza, a Canadian lad who I met in Uruguay. Ian was arriving the next day, so I let him know what the craic was with the hostels. My 1st impressions of Mendoza were great, as I was arriving into town I could see the snow capped mountain of ...

Day 191: February 22, 2008 Esquel to Comodoro Rivadavia We both slept very well and got up a little late to eat a standard Argentine breakfast with delicious homemade jams. We checked out of the hotel, gassed up next door, and headed out of town. It was a clear, sunny day. The arid mountains stood brilliantly against the sky. The land around the city was lush with grasses and prosperous-looking estancias. Just outside the city, where ...

We are back in Comodoro Rivadavia for a couple of hours to get the bus up to Trelew (about 280 kms North along the coast line). A few notes on our first impressions on Argentina: - Most shops close from 12pm to 5pm for lunch and siesta (its summer now) - Smoking is not banned in bars and restaurants. We expected this in all South America, but were surprised to find out that Chile had banned it already in all public places. - Argentinans in Patagonia like loud cars ...

After a 10 hour trip on the Semi-Cama bus from Rio Gallegos we arrive at Comodoro Rivadavia around 8am, ready for a good Argentinian Patagonian breakfast...which we struggled to find given there only seems to be 2 coffee shops in the town and they are both packed -but we still had a good one. The bus ride was good, sitting on front line on the top floor of the double-decker. The view was excellent until the sun went down ...

Day 168: January 30, 2008 Playa Bonita to Comodoro Rivadavia I slept fairly well and got up at 8:15. My hair was thick with sand. After doing a long stroll to the water to do last night's dishes, and getting surprised by the rapidly rising tide, I woke Will up. He had apparently been wandering around the dunes several times during the night in search of a place sheltered from the wind. We loaded up the vehicle and drove back to ...

Day 166: January 28, 2008 Playa Alsina to Playa Bonita We both slept until 9:15, which surprised us since the sun was already well above the horizon. We did some last minute checking for other possible accesses to the cliffs next to us but found none. Hoping that my bag was still in Comodoro, we drove back to the hotel to look for it but it was to no avail. It was gone. We picked up a couple of other groceries at La Anonima and I also found a cheap, light ...