I’ve neither heard from Bariloche nor have ever planned to go there. But it was Yassine’s best idea since I know him. Amazing landscapes, great nightlife and a dream became reality…so great that I couldn’t write any post. But now I'm sitting here in Osorno, after a 6 hours bus-ride to cross the Chilean boarder, and wait for another bus to Santiago. 12 hours ahead – the bus is my home and the seat are my bed.
06 April 2012 – Hello Bariloche
After 2 rainy days, we arrived in Bariloche and the weather got better and better. We made a little cycling trek around the lakes and enjoyed the nightlife in Argentina’s second best city for nightlife after Buenos Aires. But there is one thing we underestimated, the party starts late, very late in Argentina. At 3 AM first party people get into the club and at 6 AM the party is at its best! Not that good when you have to check out at 10.30 AM to change the hostel because there were no beds available for the next night. But we made it, I didn’t get any breakfast cause I was too tired and slept 2 hours instead of eating a great breakfast. Stupid, I know!
07 April 2012 – Sleeping – Eating – Sleeping – Partying – no Pictures, no Comments
Only one thing, I got the breakfast at 7 AM and went to bed afterwards but Yassine didn’t get it. He left the club at 6.30 AM, too early to get breakfast.
08 April 2012 – Chillax and visit THE CHOCOLATE EGG
Bariloche, famous for its chocolate all over the world, aaaahm all over Bariloche, built the largest, biggest or whatever chocolate egg for Easter. I think they made it and got an entry in the Guinness Book. We were too late to get a monster piece of chocolate of the broken egg.
Than we went to bed early to get ready for the hike at the next day. Cerro Lopez is calling!
9 April 2012 – Hiking Cerro Lopez
Bariloche is surrounded by mountains and close to a lot of lakes –> Hiking up a mountain and view the lakes!
10 April 2012 – Cerro Otto
Since the first hike was brilliant we made another one. This time we’ve seen some Condors above our heads, gliding from one mountain to another. Arrived at the summit, we really dreamed of flying because our feet were heavy, probably too heavy for the 2-3 hour hike back. Therefore, we decided to try hitchhiking down to the city centre. Luckily we found a nice Pick-Up driver who took us back to Bariloche.
11 April 2012 – La Playa – The Beach
Today we changed the hostel again, because the current one was too bad and too expensive. But it became even worse and we went back to the first “hostel”. It was called hostel but hat the standard of a hotel. For a little bit more than 10 € per night it was great. That’s the best one.
Yassine wanted to enjoy the deep blue water of the beautiful lakes. “Where to do this better than at a nice beach”, we thought and went there. The beach was nice, the water was brilliant but much too cold to get in and go swimming. Another great day with some sunburn.
12-13 April 2012 – A Dream becomes Reality
Actually, we always thought about going to Southern Patagonia to see some of the famous glaciers. But as the Bariloche was too nice and the trip would have been too expensive, we decided to stay in Bariloche.
Yassine went back to Buenos Aires, and I went to Cerro Tronador, the highest mountain around Bariloche. It was one of the best things I did so far. I hiked up 4 hours to the Refugio Otto Meiling, where I slept there a night close to the glaciers and went back the next day. It was awesome. It was like a dream. It was beautiful. It was better than words could ever describe.
I could have written much more about this beautiful piece on Earth but all good things come to an end…
14 April 2012 – Back to Santiago
Thanks to Yassine for those great days. Time to leave Bariloche and going back to Santiago, have to catch my flight to New Zealand on the 20th of April.
Last stop in South America, Santiago once again…
PS: I ♥ Bariloche!
PPS: Have you ever eaten Pasta more than 4 days in a row?
