Nahuel Huapi San Carlos de Bariloche

... ging niet helemaal als we gepland hadden. Elkaar misgelopen, wsl andere bus terminals, dus ben ik maar vast gegaan. Wat een rit. Voor ik het wist zat ik in een mini busje op weg naar Mendoza. Ik dacht dat gaat beslist sneller (wat ook in de reisgids staat), maar dat gaat natuurlijk niet op als je Chilenen aan boord hebt, die het nodig vinden om totaal viel spullen mee te smokkelen. Goed, een uur verder (vervelendste grensovergang tot nu toe) en we konden weer op pad... Dacht ik ...

... couples in the films on the bus would remind me of Mary and make me wish she was there. Long bus journeys just seem to be so much better when your woman is sitting next to you! Alas, I was able to get some great rest on the comfortable bus and watched a couple of films. One of the films surprised me, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I had never heard of this film, but it seemed legitimate and had an A-List cast. I was drawn into the film ...

... Remembrance Day, and virtually everything was closed. As the weather was miserable it was another day wasted. It gave me a chance to do some catching up on my blog. Friday, the town is alive again but the weather is still miserable and the forecast is continued misery for the foreseeable future. It reminds me of home. I ...

... a commencée. La boîte de vitesse en explosant avait bloqué le moteur, donc sans moteur pas d'électricité. Sans électricité pas d'eau chaude dans le petit réchaud du bus. Sans eau chaude pas de maté, la boisson traditionnelle du Brésil et de l'Argentine, et au bout d'un moment les Argentins ont commencé à s'agiter un peu. Finalement Vanesa avait son réchaud de camping, alors elle a décidé de s'en servir pour chauffer l'eau. Mais il y avait un fort vent dehors au milieu de la pampa ...

... heading in the same direction with very similar itineries so the chances of seeing these people again further along the journey is pretty like, as I discovered when I arrived in El Calafate, but I´ll save that for the next entry! I´ve not got any more photos on here yet because the internet connections where I´m staying are quite slow and expensive, but I should be able to bombard you with them by the time I get to Ushuaia and update this blog again in a few days time. Hasta Luego!

... could in someway do the boat/head south without having to do the 50 hour hell bus we had heard of to the bottom on the Argentinean side! We also briefly looked around the town, many chocolate and pastry shops , tourist shops and restaurants were the bulk of it with little else to see apart from the cathedral and of course the beautiful but rather choppy lake! Spluttering noisily around the towns too were many old bangers (plus a few million stray ...

... of the area and worked out our next move. <br><br>This was the tourist info centre! How cool?<br><br><br><br>After the car hire joke that was San Martin de los Andes, we managed to find a reasonable quote for tomorrow with a local company and then went to book our transport to El Calafate, which our guidebook describes as ...

We arrived back to Bariloche safe and sound and have moved to a different campsite only 2km out of town on the coast of Lago Nahuel Huapi. It's not as nice as the last campsite but it's nearer to town for lugging backpacks about and has lots of wildlife knocking around. Birds of Prey are as common as pigeons out here!. We're going to spend a couple of days ...

... I lay on a rock and just stare up. I forget the chicks name but she points out satellites that cruise by. And low and behold we even see a shooting star. Satellites look like shooting stars because they move so fast compared to the stationary background but they don`t fade out like shooting stars so you can tell them apart. The Brazlian dude points out a constellation and says it`s called The Key since it looks like an old time key with a ...