Wine+Steak+Cheap Prices=Happy Danny+Quilmes Beer=Happier Danny
It is true what they say!!!! Argentina probably does have the best wine and steaks in the world. If they don’t, they rank pretty high up there. This was one of the better overall trips I took (combined with our time in Uruguay), for our Winter Vacation in Venezuela. I went with my friends Tyson and Allison who I have done fair amount of traveling with in the past 5 years. We did have a big road to cover though…..
We started off in Buenos Aires and spent Christmas Day there and met up with some other friends we teach with to go to a Tango Show. This was pretty fun as we had wine and dinner and even got dragged up on stage…..
We then took a plane down to Bariloche. The hostel we stayed in was quite cozy and we made some good friends and cooked a lot of different meals in the hostel. During the days we walked around the town and took in the sights. We did some day hikes up in the mountains which were very nice. One of the days we did a canoeing around a big lake and a horseback riding excursion which was great!!! Bariloche as a city is very backpacker/hippie oriented. It was a very chilled out town with many good restaurants and billions of outdoor activities to do. Then we decided to take a bus….
The bus we took really was not that bad as we were going from Bariloche to El Calafate which was about 1400 kilometers (nothing right). Well when the bus got to windy roads, it went very slow and there is pretty much nothing between Bariloche and El Calafate except open roads and some mountains. We stopped a bit the first 12 hours, but the last 16 hours I believe we stopped just one time. 28 hours total on a bus is not my idea of fun, but it is all about the experience….
We got to El Calafate and had a blast once we got off the bus, we ate steaks, and drank wine until our hearts were content. Our main excursion was to the huge glacier (see pictures) which was probably one of the neatest things I have ever seen. We had a blast going near it and just sucking in the pure beauty of nature. Another excursion I took was to do a hike in in a national park with a German I met, which was a blast. The rest of the time, we just hung around and had a good time and relaxed.
Enough for the buses. We decided the best thing to do would be to get a plane down to Ushuaia which is probably the southern most city in the world. Even though it was summer there, it was still cold and the hostel we stayed in was heated. We made our way to do some day hikes in a nearby park, enjoying the open air. We also took a cruise around the bay to see the sea lion and penguins. The rest of the time we just chilled out and ate a lot of lobster and drank a lot of wine. I will definately come back to Ushuaia as one day I will go to Antarctica, and this is a take off point…..Now it was back to Buenos Aires for a few days…
Our flight got in late at night to Buenos Aires and we had a few days to spare. I met up with a Brazilian friend who I was with in Uruguay and we went walking around the city. We go to hit Recolecta Cemetery where Evita Peron is buried along with many other places. We also took a bike ride around the city to see Boca which is made famous by the Soccer team. At night we went to the most famous steakhouse in Buenos Aires-Cabana Las Lilas.
Great trip like I said and many of the pictures do not do this place justice, but now it is time to head back to the north region!!!!!!