Bariloche where we drank beer and ate chocolate!
Trip Start
Jan 20, 2005
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Trip End
Feb 20, 2005
After three flight legs and about 24 hours of flying (with a nice sunny stopover in Santiago, Chile), we arrived in Bariloche Argentina. We met Pedro, an OpenBSD developer who happened to be in the area for a day or two, and took him out to dinner and to the bar for the evening. Bariloche is a great city, lots of Swiss influence in the architecture, and right on a lake. It is also filled with hikers, and grocery stores and bars and internet places are all swamped with them! Although there are lots of families here as well, likely on summer vacation and trying to escape the heat of northern Argentina or Brazil. The prices here are great, internet is about 50 cents Canadian an hour, meals seem to cost a couple bucks, and beer is $1-2 a bottle!!! We are off now in search of El Bolson Picante beer, which is pepper beer. Hiking begins tomorrow, it is a bit cool here but expected to be reasonable weather for the next week in the Bariloche area. We will be starting our first hike at the local ski hill, Cerro Catedral, to start the Nahuel Huapi hike.
