Colony Beach And Tennis Resort

... ski pass and as we could not afford to ski we decided to go for the cheaper options of hiring snow shoes ( a bit like stapping tennis rackets to your feet!). We did a long walk out to a view point over the valley which was stunning. I visited the park in ...

... all open 24 hours a day!...he showed us a few areas where we could camp out, we chose the one right near the tennis courts with electricity...then to our astonishment he took us to the groves where they grow over 40 different types of fruit trees....They ...

... the top of the bands (including the obligatory Bagpipers) and singing, there was a 21 gun salute, which apparently stopped the tennis! I walked down to the river where people were gathering en mass. Turned out there was a charidee duck race. 13000 ...

... we see a sign to Aphrodite Hills, an enormous upmarket gated community, and go in to have a look. There is a tennis academy, lots of golf links, a resort, and housing for the well heeled, Get some good photos over the links, then back to the B6. Near the ...

... have earned it a World Heritage listing as a remarkable ecological habitat. We stopped at Hamelin Pool to look at a colony of stromalites - "sediment-trapping algae which are direct descendants of the earth's earliest forms, dating back 3 billion years, ...

... . The nicest building in town! Across the road was the tiny school and library. There is also a bowling club and some dusty tennis courts and apparently there is a pool. I shared with Lisa & Carina (Denmark), Catherine (London), Marija (Netherlands) ...

... of the World Heritage sights nearby, Puerto Madryn is a lovely wee town. It was founded in the late 19th century as a Welsh colony (where the immigrants lived in caves when they first landed) so it gave us our first taste of "Welsh" patagonia (good cup ...

... also didn't like guests to spend their visit sleeping - he encouraged activity and certainly had the resources to support it - tennis courts, swimming pools, a private zoo, horseback riding...you name it. We had been completely encased in fog when we ...