Hello everybody!

hm it seems I am a little late with updating to you, but we have our reason!! instead of staying in Puerto Madryn we decided to go straight into the peninsula valdes and find a hostel there. But the town (Puerto Piramides) is pretty much a ghost-town so internet is not known there. none-the-less we had a very good time there.

We arrived last wednesday around 11 in the morning and after checking in to our hostel we booked a whale-watching tour for the afternoon. And yeah we saw some whales, but i gotta say, they have to do something about there ears... I asked them several times to jump but they didn't :(. Later I will put the pictures online but there are all similar, dont know whether it was because I was to slow with my camera or because they are such bad models.

That evening we sat on the sea-side on some rocks, watched the bay and the whales there while the sun was going down behind us. We shot some nice pictures, but still no jumping whale.

Thursday was the day to have a land tour trough the peninsula valdes, which ment sitting in a van the whole day looking out the window for some wild-life. That was a nice day, but also rather boring since the nature is every-where the same. The Highlights of that day where the "big" salt flats which are the lowest point in South America (minus 41 meters) and punta cantor where we found a sea-lion and sea elephant colony. Around there swim orcas as well, but of course I did not see one :( it is always the same, those photographers of national geographic see jumping whales and orcas catching a seal from the beach and we.... Nothing :(

Our tour brought us back to Puerto Madryn that afternoon and we wanted to stay there one more night to have the friday to see the beach and looking for some more whales, of course not to swim since it was rather cold.
But we changed that plan, we took a bus that night to bariloche because the busses for friday and saturday where full allready, and it would have been to boring to stay in Madryn 3 days.

so it happend that we arrived in esquel (6 hours from Bariloche) since they could only sell us tickets to there from madryn. so we bought tickets for the next part to bariloche, left esquel, ate breakfast in the bus and then... there came the host, " Uhm... the bus just turned and we are heading back to Esquel since the pass is closed"... GREAT, there we were in Esquel waiting for 4 hours at the bus terminal... going outside was tooo freezing cold and inside where to many people... And then came the best news from our buscompany, yeap the bus is NOT leaving today.... that while 3 other companies just announced that they where leaving in 30 minutes... I almost freaked out, but then realised that that is backpacking, you never now what happens. fortunately our company was part of some other company that was leaving and we could just hop in another bus at the last moment. Sooo with a small delay we arrived in Bariloche at 17.00 instead of 11.00, but that didn't matter since the trip over the pass was pretty niche, you will see that later on the pictures. When we got off the bus Paula was wondering when we traveled to Finland.

And here I am in Bariloch in a really nice hostel, in a domr with a nice view and a living room on the third floor with a even better view of the lake and surrounding mountains. Though it is pretty cold here we are doing fine, saw a bit of the city which makes us feel like some austrian ski town (only the dutch cars all around missing)
Friday night was random drinking night, Yesterday was party night. Around 2.00 we went to Wilkenny, a nice pub with way to many people. but hey it was nice there, met a lot of brasilians, Australians and Irish. After a while we decided to go to a club... but the entrance was 75 pesos argentinos... ¿are they crazy?, normally it is around 20 in Buenos Aires and in Tandil only 5... Would be the same as that Sala Murano asks 15 luca.... anyways we got back to wilkenny and stayed there until 6, walked back, helped someone pushing his car, went to sleep and here I am with a hangover behind the computer.

Tuesday Paul/Palito will be here as well and on wednesday we will go skiing, so it seems the party will go on!!

To my dutch readers: see you soon
To my chilean readers: I miss you
To the rest: nos vemos pronto

Chao