This drive is so beautiful, and is the only way anyone should travel to get to Bariloche. If I were to do this trip again I would plan to get on and off the bus at all the different lakes. Each of them have great camp sites and beautful scenery, and it seems easy to do. You just have to have an up to date bus schedule so you know when the buses will pass buy and you just flag them down. You can also stay in these little hostals along the way that look great as well, but it is advised that you check availablitiy before you get there. So next time we will cam
p for sure, who would like to come with?
All the little lakes surrounded by the mountains, it is just so beautiful, make sure not to fall asleep on this one. After 3 hours of the great scenery we arrived to a small mountain town called Villa la Angostura. Smaller than San Martin, but very nice! It is in the Southern part of the province Neuquen and on Lago Nahuel Huapi(a huge lake). It has been built up for the tourist but still remains very cute. This whole area is a popular get away not only for foreigners but all South Americans. We met a lot of Argentines and Chileans on vacation. We could only find a place to stay for one night so this was a short stay but a nice one. We stayed in a popular hostal that was desinged to house many backpackers, not like the last one. So Kent and I had to sleep in seperate rooms because they did not have mixed dorms. So the newlyweds slept seperately for the first time in our married lives. Ha!
The next day we walked to the peninsula (3 km) planning to take a boat out the the end and then hike back through what is called ¨Bosque de Arrayanes¨. It´s a national par
k with these really cool trees that are old and one of a kind. We ran into this family from Chile that need two more people to complete this boat trip that was going to be cheaper than taking the bigger traditional boat out there. Not really knowing what we were getting ourselves into we said sure and gave them some money, hey they seemed like nice people. We followed them and then two girls from Buenos Aries who were also on our boat, bought us all of our Park entrance tickets for $13 dollars cheaper. (If you are Argentine everything down here is much cheaper to get into parks, museums, lakes, ect.) So, so far so good! We boarded the small boat and began our 45 min ride out to the end of the peninsula. It was very nice, we passed some ski resorts and a couple of nice ranches and then arrived to the distination. The good thing about doing this is that we didn´t arrive with all the hords of tourist on the big boat so it wasn´t as crowded while we were walking around. Big Plus! The trees were cool some of the oldest were around 500 yea
rs old. Wow! Then we started hiking back (13km). Taking pictures of huge bees feeding off the nectar of these pretty flowers. It was pretty funny to watch Kent get really close and then all of a sudden scream and start running. Later I found out that Larry (his dad) is badly allergic to bee stings and Kent was never tested, so there is a possibility he is as well. I asked him if he thought that what he was doing was a good idea. No reply of course just another scream as I watched him run by me. I said wow I learn something new every day about my husband.
After three hours we arrived back and the pier had some lunch and couldn´t find a taxi or a bus so we had to walk another 3 km back to the hostal. We ended up catching a bus as 6pm towards the next stop, Bariloche. Chau Angostura!
p for sure, who would like to come with?All the little lakes surrounded by the mountains, it is just so beautiful, make sure not to fall asleep on this one. After 3 hours of the great scenery we arrived to a small mountain town called Villa la Angostura. Smaller than San Martin, but very nice! It is in the Southern part of the province Neuquen and on Lago Nahuel Huapi(a huge lake). It has been built up for the tourist but still remains very cute. This whole area is a popular get away not only for foreigners but all South Americans. We met a lot of Argentines and Chileans on vacation. We could only find a place to stay for one night so this was a short stay but a nice one. We stayed in a popular hostal that was desinged to house many backpackers, not like the last one. So Kent and I had to sleep in seperate rooms because they did not have mixed dorms. So the newlyweds slept seperately for the first time in our married lives. Ha!
The next day we walked to the peninsula (3 km) planning to take a boat out the the end and then hike back through what is called ¨Bosque de Arrayanes¨. It´s a national par
k with these really cool trees that are old and one of a kind. We ran into this family from Chile that need two more people to complete this boat trip that was going to be cheaper than taking the bigger traditional boat out there. Not really knowing what we were getting ourselves into we said sure and gave them some money, hey they seemed like nice people. We followed them and then two girls from Buenos Aries who were also on our boat, bought us all of our Park entrance tickets for $13 dollars cheaper. (If you are Argentine everything down here is much cheaper to get into parks, museums, lakes, ect.) So, so far so good! We boarded the small boat and began our 45 min ride out to the end of the peninsula. It was very nice, we passed some ski resorts and a couple of nice ranches and then arrived to the distination. The good thing about doing this is that we didn´t arrive with all the hords of tourist on the big boat so it wasn´t as crowded while we were walking around. Big Plus! The trees were cool some of the oldest were around 500 years old. Wow! Then we started hiking back (13km). Taking pictures of huge bees feeding off the nectar of these pretty flowers. It was pretty funny to watch Kent get really close and then all of a sudden scream and start running. Later I found out that Larry (his dad) is badly allergic to bee stings and Kent was never tested, so there is a possibility he is as well. I asked him if he thought that what he was doing was a good idea. No reply of course just another scream as I watched him run by me. I said wow I learn something new every day about my husband.After three hours we arrived back and the pier had some lunch and couldn´t find a taxi or a bus so we had to walk another 3 km back to the hostal. We ended up catching a bus as 6pm towards the next stop, Bariloche. Chau Angostura!
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