So the travels started off with a 19 hour bus ride from Buenos Aires, by far the longest either of us have experience. I highly not doing it unless you have to. Though we did manange to keep ourselves busy with sleep, movies, and cards. I also managed to buy tickets early enough so we got the front two seats in the top of the bus. So you have windows surrounding you and it feels like you are flying. Its a good spot for car sick people like Kent! We got served all of our meals on the bus and even wine and champaigne. Anyway we arrived in the afternoon to this beautiful mountain town, a lot like Aspen but with a huge lake ¨Lago Lacar¨, very cute and relaxing. With now where to stay yet, we finally found only after 4 tries ¨Hostal Seqouia¨. Yes there was a huge Seqouia tree out front and it had a double room just for us for $30 US a night. Very cute and it is not right on main street so it wasn´t so touristy. We dropped off our bags and off we went to explore.
We ended up stopping off and buying some chocholate and walking to the small beach that was over crowded with all the locals. It was Sunday so all the families were out relaxing and trying to stay cool in the 96 degree weather. So we sat down one little open spot that we could find under a tree and realized that buying chocholate was not the greatest ideas, as we licked the runny chocholate off the side of the bag. It was very good. If you don´t know this already the ¨lake district¨ is know for all the artasenal chocholate stores.
We went to have a beer at a cafe and met our first friend! Great guy named Steve from S.M. who is a spanish/english teacher at the school. Kent practice speaking spanish with him as I practice listening and understanding! Then he invited us back to his house for a glass of wine. So we went. He was very interested in our travels and showed us a lot of things to do in the area and just reasured us on a lot of our plans. We told him to look us up if he got to the states and we would return the kind wine at our bar. We told him where we were going to ¨La Tasca¨ for dinner and he said he knew the owner and that he would call them for us. Great food for a pretty good price. Everyone knows everyone in this town. It felt a lot like home here, with the people, the friendlyness, and the laid back attitude. It is a definate stop if you get to Patagonia.
Monday the next day we took an hour hike to this ¨mirador¨ look out point of the lake. A litte further through a small village there was a rocky beach with only a few people and the clearest water I have ever seen for a lake. We chilled out for a couple of hours went swimming and got some sun. Don´t forget sandals for this place because the rocks are hotter than hell. That night was a chil night with a pizza and a bottle of wine at our cute little hostal.
Tuesday we went to a Canopy zip line for some flying lessons. It was great we took a cab out to the middle of nowhere, and at one point the cab just turned off the road onto this dirt path and started driving straight. It didn´t even look like a road. Kent and I looked at each other and we both had a look on our faces like ¨where the hell are we going¨? We got there and there were a total of 10 lines the longest one being 250 meters. We were going through trees and flying pretty fast. Our guide cuka (a Rich B. look alike, no joke Rich I thought you were hanging out with us) was great he spoke the little english that he knew and told us about the trees and environment here. It was lot of fun and something different for both Kent and I. Andrew and Mason if you ever do open a Zip line in Colorado I want to work for you!
At about 5:30 we said our goodbyes to San Martin and we were off on ¨Route de Siete Lagos¨ to Villa La Angostura.
We ended up stopping off and buying some chocholate and walking to the small beach that was over crowded with all the locals. It was Sunday so all the families were out relaxing and trying to stay cool in the 96 degree weather. So we sat down one little open spot that we could find under a tree and realized that buying chocholate was not the greatest ideas, as we licked the runny chocholate off the side of the bag. It was very good. If you don´t know this already the ¨lake district¨ is know for all the artasenal chocholate stores.
We went to have a beer at a cafe and met our first friend! Great guy named Steve from S.M. who is a spanish/english teacher at the school. Kent practice speaking spanish with him as I practice listening and understanding! Then he invited us back to his house for a glass of wine. So we went. He was very interested in our travels and showed us a lot of things to do in the area and just reasured us on a lot of our plans. We told him to look us up if he got to the states and we would return the kind wine at our bar. We told him where we were going to ¨La Tasca¨ for dinner and he said he knew the owner and that he would call them for us. Great food for a pretty good price. Everyone knows everyone in this town. It felt a lot like home here, with the people, the friendlyness, and the laid back attitude. It is a definate stop if you get to Patagonia.
Monday the next day we took an hour hike to this ¨mirador¨ look out point of the lake. A litte further through a small village there was a rocky beach with only a few people and the clearest water I have ever seen for a lake. We chilled out for a couple of hours went swimming and got some sun. Don´t forget sandals for this place because the rocks are hotter than hell. That night was a chil night with a pizza and a bottle of wine at our cute little hostal.
Tuesday we went to a Canopy zip line for some flying lessons. It was great we took a cab out to the middle of nowhere, and at one point the cab just turned off the road onto this dirt path and started driving straight. It didn´t even look like a road. Kent and I looked at each other and we both had a look on our faces like ¨where the hell are we going¨? We got there and there were a total of 10 lines the longest one being 250 meters. We were going through trees and flying pretty fast. Our guide cuka (a Rich B. look alike, no joke Rich I thought you were hanging out with us) was great he spoke the little english that he knew and told us about the trees and environment here. It was lot of fun and something different for both Kent and I. Andrew and Mason if you ever do open a Zip line in Colorado I want to work for you!
At about 5:30 we said our goodbyes to San Martin and we were off on ¨Route de Siete Lagos¨ to Villa La Angostura.
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