Sol Arrayan Villa La Angostura

... us a chance to see more of the area and not just drive in and then leave. Our hotel review is at the end of the journal entries for the Lake District. We think we would have preferred to stay in a cabana that may have offered more quiet accommodations. Today's photos! Two sets! http://www.margieswebgallery.com/galler ies/argentina/Day21%2012-23-08%20Set1/ http://www.margieswebgallery.com/galler ies/argentina/Day21%2012-23-08%20Set2/

... mellows, and once you find a special one, he stays with it for years and years. Very different! We're both going on the boat trip to Los Arrayanes National Park today. It is on a peninsula. The largest section of arrayanes trees are on the tip of the peninsula, so people usually take a boat trip over there and return. We have decided that we'll take the boat in one direction and walk back to Villa La Angostura. We discuss the weather and if it ...

... mountain ranges in the world. We also adopted a cat for a few days. Well, it adopted us. Turned up at the window one tea-time, and of course, ray and I being the hardnoses that we are we just threw a bucket of cold water on it and told it to **** off. Well, not really, we let it in, fed it and then let it sit on our laps for the rest of the night. There were also a couple of dogs that lived at the hostel and would run excitedly with us between our ...

... have been great for zeroing in on the glaciers, to truly see the size of the seracs and the crevasses that could swallow them and not even burp. I scoured the big walls of Fitz Roy, Poincinot, Cerro Torre, Egger, and Standhart, not to mention the smaller less known walls for any sign of climbers but to no avail. The weather has been great, but no sign of climbers. I plotted a route down from a big col on the Glacier Grande that ...

So Buenos Aires is my new favourite South American city, I just love it, with all of its unique barrios and colonial buildings!!! After a 20 hour night bus I finally arrived and with a little water splashed on my face I was ready to explore the city. I mainly spent the morning wandering around the center taking in the beauty of all the old gorgeous colonial buildings lining the wide avenus. I saw the famous Casa Rosada (presidential palace) where Evita made her ...

... from burning. The grass still grows where he told stories and slept. Improvised plumbing slathering the hillside collects the streams of fire. I stumble into one and scald my foot. Just in case that wasn't enough, underground bubbling and gurgling confirms I'm in the land of geyserdom. A bit up the road from Chihuío the van halts when we enter private property. It takes Ramón an hour and a half to negotiate with the owner, though I ...

... one was the hardest day, we collected info on what to do in Bariloche and in the surrounding areas and then ate chocolate and ice cream the rest of the day. This day was especially demanding because we had to pace ourselves to last the entire day sampling delicious rama chocolate (shaved chocolate rolled into a cylinder) and dulce de leche ice cream (D.d.L is like a caramel spread) as we went along. Bariloche had a chocolate street which consists of 6 or 7 ...

Villa La Angostura did have the most enjoyable bus ride here. It was stunning with 7 magnificent lakes on my side of the window and I gaped in awe as we drove past. The lakes in this area are jaw droppingly stunning. Once in Villa La Angostura we met the German couple ...

... het koude water hielp :) ´s Ochtends met het busje opgepikt en na een paar uur rijden en een klein ontbijt zijn we in de wetsuits gehezen. Na een korte uitleg sprongen we in de rubberen bootjes. De eerste rapids waren niet echt snel, maar even ...

... stomped on by a bigger giant. But - due to the fact that my favorable American dollars have provided me with the bourgesie luxury of not having to work here - my willpower has slothed and my strength has softened. If you poked me in the stomach, I would giggle like the Pillsbury Dough-man, fall on my back, and not get up until I slept for four hours. If I was frequently meeting the responsability of having to work for my survival, then my willpower would progressively ...