Posada Piramides Puerto Piramides

Puerto Piramides (PP) is on Peninsula Valdez, near the city of Puerto Madryn. We had intended to stay in Puerto Madryn but again with more research decided to stay in the actual town where most of the whale watching boat trips, we had come for, leave from.

PP is a lovely little town nestled in a protective cove on the South side of the Peninsula. It was a Saturday when we arrived so the town was buzzing with weekend Argentine ...

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Our first stop was a El Doradillo outside of the reserve where the Southern Right Whales would go to give birth to their young and stay there a while to feed and teach them how to swim. It was amazing how close the whales got to shore! It was early morning and only a few were out swimming along so German promised to bring us back in the afternoon when there would be more action.

We then entered the reserve. A huge, dry, flat penninsula ...

En el segunda día de nuestras vacaciones de Argentina, nosotros tomamos un autobús sur a la Patagonía. Patagonía es muy bonita. Patagonia se encuentra cerca de la Antártica. Es muy frió y de mucha nieve. Nosotros vimos péguenos, ballenas, y muchos aves. Nosotros tomamos una caminata en el glaciar. El glaciar era hermoso. Nos alojamos en un hotel de Correntoso. Es recomendable que tu visites este hotel porque lo tienes un spa, resorte, y una montaña.

... gave birth and we found how bad the seagulls can be. They started pecking away at both mother and child to feed of the blood and in particular they attacked the umbilical cord on the baby. The two of them had to crawl around to try to get away and at least they were clear and the gulls had stopped by the time we left. After a few hours we started back to the camp when poor Kirsty started to play up, she had got some more dirty fuel. We decided to crawl back and ...

AMAZING

Imagine seeing 16ft whales leaping out of the water...15ft away from you, standing outside your hotel and watching them blow massive spurts of water in the air. Puerto Madryn is a magical place surrounded by water full of these amazing creatures. I sat on a beach and watching mummy´s teach their 1 month old white babies how to be a big whale ...

... the double-decker bus that drives down the lonely Pategonian highway. The downstairs passengers sleep comfortably in the their fully reclining seats. The upstairs passengers shift restlessly in their semi-reclining seats. Some snore softly. Angie and Nathan attempt to get comfortable on their first overnight bus trip. ANGIE reading guidebook: The petrified forest looks really cool, but it´ll be a bit pricey to go that far out of the way. Are ...

... morning on the south of the pennisular, checking out the elephant seals and magellanic pengiuns (pingüinos), waiting for high tide which is the best time to see the Orcas. Saw lots of guanacos (like llamas) along the road and a lucky armadillo which just missed the tyres of our minibus!Finally we arrived in Punta Norte and there they were - two Orcas playing near the shore, amongst the very brave sea lions ...

... afvinken: zee-olifanten, havikken, gordeldieren, paarden, meeuwen en heeeel veel zeeleeuwen. Zo kicke was dat. Op het noordelijkste puntje van het eiland, Punta Norta duh!, lag het strand overvol met hele lieve kleine zeeleeuwtjes, ravottende tieners, trotse moeders, vechtende moeders en hele stoere papa zeeleeuwen. We hebben dik anderhalf uur op een kleedje vanaf een duin zitten toekijken en genieten. Een keer wilde de ...

... 85kms from the town. With my newly purchased camping equipment I thought I`d head out there and see what the fuss is about. I caught a bus with a hippy chick from Cordoba. The ride was spectacular, we climbed up a winding road through a mountain pass and across a huge bridge and ended up next to a bright green lake. There are 7 lakes in this park and one great big glacier that feeds them all. I left hippy chick behind and set off on my first leg. A 7km walk around the side of ...

... carved out of the desert. Green, so healthy-green lawn, and trees and bushes round like ice cream scoops, huddled to the shore of the river. And the view-robbing rock ridges turned bright maroon here. I half-expected a brontosaurus to come lumbering out from behind one of them. Even with the river´s vitality, there were only a few tiny desert towns and hardly any people. In the car, Graciela poured the herbs and hot water into a bulb ...