Christmas in Argentina
Trip Start
Mar 25, 2007
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Trip End
Feb 16, 2008
Bariloche,
Argentina
Sunday, December 23, 2007
The next morning we caught the early bus to Bariloche, via the 7 lakes route, through stunning scenery, once again very reminiscent of New Zealand, complete with lupins growing wild at the side of the road. We got to Bariloche to find, that yes, our hostel for christmas where we had hoped to find some people to hang out with for christmas was full of Israelis...most of whom had no idea it was even christmas! Bugger. We had met a couple from california on the bus though, and made plans with them to go out on christmas eve..We ended up at another hostel, on the 10th floor of the biggest building in Bariloche, with an awesome view over the lake and the mountains from its balcony, where they were having a pot luck christmas dinner and party. The amosphere there was so much better than our hostel!!
The next morning we woke up late, then headed the 100m to the 'beach', a stony area next to the lake where you could sit and eat and swim. Once again the water was freezing, but refreshing after sitting in the blazing hot sun. We drunk the first bottle of wine down there, then headed back to our hostel to cook ourselves a magnificent feed! We roasted veges, then cooked an awesome argentinian steak, the best steak hamish has ever had apparently, and then we got stuck into our cake with pavlova bits on top of it we had found in the supermarket, and of course some more wine. Our californian friends were supposed to join us, but they couldnīt find our hostel!
The next day we did manage to meet up with them though and took a picnic lunch down to the lake, a nice chilled out day.
All in all we had a very lazy christmas, with lots of food and drink, and thats exactly what we needed!
Next we were heading back to Chile, to catch our flight down to Ushuaia (in Argentina) for new years eve!
