Aldea de Mar Puerto Madryn

... see where they had sawn out a cupboard to store items. Four of the caves are fenced off and they are trying to keep them, but the other three are being left to fall apart, although it is still possible to see them at the moment. There is also a monument that lists the names of all 150 of the original settlers. The town is called Madryn after the Welsh nobleman who paid for the trip.

... dust, but the return would be worse as it was mostly uphill.<br>The beach was stunning, really wide, really clean and practically deserted. The reason for the effort of getting there was to see the Wales closer up, there were about a dozen, around 30m off the beach, really awesome. The ride back was brutal, you can only listen to "eye of the tiger" a few times before it loses its effectiveness! <br>Monday we got the bus to Peninsular ...

... a bus to Puerto Madryn.<br>The little town is on the east coast of Argentina in a little bay protecting it from the elements of the Atlantic Ocean - at this time of year it provides a sheltered spot for the whales to rear their young, and they don´t seem to mind us lot being there too.<br>We arrived very early in the morning, just in time to see the sun rise over the ocean as we looked for a place to stay. On finding this great and ...

... was amazing to watch the transformation from awkward land animal into super-fast graceful swimmer too). It was hard to tear ourselves away but eventually we headed off (after some yummy empanadas) on the road back to Puerto Madryn, where we had decided to make a stop in Gaiman (first Welsh settlement in Patagonia) for some high tea. After getting lost on the road system in Trelew AGAIN, we reached Gaiman for some much needed refreshments. Gaiman was lovely, with ...

26/2/09-29/2/09 And so it was three buses and 30hrs later that we arrived in Puerto Madryn. The only reason you come here is to do some nature watching, so that's what we did. It is best known for Wales, but we were off season, and you can see whales in Newcastle. What we had come to see were the penguins. We booked our tour from the hostel ...

... away the remains of yesterdays pasta (very garlicky) and as I moved away from the bin the guy in charge came straight past me and started squirting what I thought was air freshener by the door, I felt awful but it turned out to be fly spray and he was chasing them all over the place! Yesterday we hired a car to visit Punto Tombo (largest colony of mallegenic penguins) and Gaiman (Welsh settlement). The care hire worked out to be much cheaper ...

... zuiden van Puerto Madryn, hier zit de grootste pinguin kolonie van Zuid-Amerika (alleen die op Antartica is groter). Echt een hele bijzondere ervaring aangezien de pinguins echt overal zijn, en ze je echt voor de voeten lopen (pinguins hebben voorrang). Er zijn wel paden maar daar houden de pinguins dus geen rekening mee, en zo sta je dus voor je weet oog in oog met een pinguin ...

... spent the day in a place called Colonia de Sacremento. It is a world heritage site and perhaps hasn´t changed much in the past 100 or so years.The streets are all cobbled and no real traffic is allowed in the older part of town - we spent a few hours walking around, even climbing to the top of the lighthouse (no a place designed for someone who is over 6ft!!), and it really felt like we were finally in South America, and not another English voice to be ...

... de més de 7 kms de longitud. També disposem de cuina, per tant, no faltarà una bona amanideta per sopar... jejeje... La caminata per la platja serà llarga, unes 5 hores més o menys. Veig la posta del sol. Fa gràcia perqué hi ha molta gent que va a la platja el diumenge a la tarda amb tota la família i tots van amb el mate. Amb el termo i el gotet. El mate és una beguda típica de l'Argentina. D'herbes, molt fortes, àcida. Barregen l'herba de mate amb altres herbes ...

... Joyce and I have ever been before. Our Amazon cruise a few years ago started from BA which is where this cruise will terminate.<br><br>The evening show was an evening of music with Philippa Healey. She has a beautiful voice and also played the piano (with very high ratings from Joyce) during some of her numbers. She sang/played a variety of music and put on an excellent show although it was not Jim's kind of music so he will not be with Joyce, Carol, and me when she ...