El Portillo

Cala fait deux ans que nous sommes en école d'ingénieurs lorsque nous avons décidé Lucie et moi, Ariel, de faire une année de césure pour partir voyager et s'immerger en Amérique du Sud. Notre but, s'émerveiller, découvrir, partager. Ce blog dé ...

Welcome to our travel blog! After long and careful deliberations,we decided to head off to Argentina and Chile for our 2 1/2 months off. We booked our flight March 9,2006 and are flying to Buenos Aires March 14, 2006. We're planning on spending the first ...

It's time for another adventure! Join me as I travel from La Paz, Bolivia - the highest capital in the world to Ushuaia, the most southern city on the planet. From there, I hop down to Antarctica to chase penguins. Along the way, I'll be climbing ...

South America 2007 - what is there more to say?

... on the plane, we arrived at our resort:  The El Portillo Beach Resort which is now the Gran Bahia Principe El Portillo. We quickly checked the beach and immediately felt all the exhaustion and jet-lag fall off, when we saw the ...

... no accommodation of any kind on top of Tenerife. The one bus of the day leaves the Parador at 4.00, and should therefore reach El Portillo in about ten minutes. Refreshed at the bar, we were ready and waiting, but it drove straight past. Full. The driver ...

... than an hour to find the road out of Santiago. From there we took the seldom used coastal road to Marea del Portillo (near Pilon). This weather beaten coastal road is remote and dramatic. The road lies just next to the ocean, with cliffs ...

... ski down the bigger hills for the last 30 minutes or so, and then we all met up again to turn in our equipment and leave Portillo.  We arrived back in Vina del Mar around 8:30 PM.  My host family was kind of surprised when I walked in with a ...

... error de encomendarnos a nuestra suerte e intentamos, a pesar del frio, ir a ver el puente. El puente era precioso, cierto, pero el frio era tambien impresionante con lo que nos fuimos a tomar algo en la hosteria de la zona... pero he de precisar antes ...

... accommodation was really cheap (36 Argentinean Peso is approx £7) I decided to treat myself to a local Andean meal at the "El  Portillo" Restaurant. I went for Lama in a local sauce with some potatoes and it was very nice too. All in ...

... El Portillo by 10.30, ready to carry on where we left off. In England, there would be at least a youth hostel at El Portillo, as there is already a large bar and an information centre -cum- museum. Probably accommodation comes under a different authority. ...

... so it may be that in future years we will see more of it. Joan is drinking another Argentinian sauvignon blanc (2006) from Finca El Portillo in Valle de Uco, Tunuyan, Mendoza ($6).  Some more: De Lucca, Vino de El Colorado, Tannat 2007, ...