Hola Amigos,
Sorry it has been so long again, lack of wifi!
Bariloche is known for its outdoor activities, so outdoors we went!! It is a quiet town next to the lake, with excellent chocolate shops lining the main street. It is also the (supposed) home of the best steak, so of course we went to a steakhouse and had the most amazing steak for dinner on our first night, accompanied by some really good malbec! Sounds silly, but definitely in the top ten highlights of the trip!!
For our first full day in Bariloche, we hired mountain bikes and went for a ride around the peninsula, which was a very up and down road, about 25kms. We stopped a lot along the way to admire the scenery, and catch our breath with three months' holiday fitness!! The views were spectacular. We got the bikes back in time to climb a hill where there is the most fantastic view, another real highlight of the trip, the lake and surroundings were beautiful.
The next day, Sam loving the outdoors especially, we went for a big hike, around 22kms, alongside then up a mountain. Near the top there is a refuge and frozen lake, which was also beautiful but pretty chilly, given that the last 100m of hiking up was on snow!! It was good to get a lot of exercise here!!
That evening the owner of the hostel cooked us a really good Argentinian BBQ (called an asado) so we were very well exercised and well fed by the time we left Bariloche!!
We then caught the longest bus yet, 22 hours from Bariloche to Buenos Aires. It felt like a long time.
More in the next post!! Xoxoxo
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