we left buenos aires and spent 2 days in a lovely village of sierra de la ventana. we climed little mountais (or rather rocky hills) - we finally stopped cursing the trekking shoes in our backpacks! swam in the swimming holes (something like natural pools in the middle of the rivers), got baddly sun burnt and chilled in the dusty bars by the road. we went to church and it was really cool to see old ladies huging and kissing at the end on the mass. and the church was full of scouts who were camping nearby. we spent saturday night in a small bar by the road just watching families coming in trucks and on motorbikes to have a beer or the local equivalent of sprite. we planned to stay in a hostel but when we got to sierra it turned out that it had been closed a while ago, so we stayed in some b&b (which seemed like from `misery´ movie based on stephen king´s book. but the senor was nothing like the crazy lady.
we left with the evening bus, got to bahia blanca and found out there is no buses to rio gallegos until the next night. so we got the tickets and found a hotel (agian no hostels here, it does not seem to be a very popular backpackets destination). everyone is warning us that it is much peligroso (dangerous, doggy) so we got a taxi to a hotel ( with carpets on the walls and shower just over the loo). nothing too pleasant. but... in the morning at breakfast we met 3 really cool middle aged argentinias with a teenage son travelling around on motorbikes and they offered us mate! so we have already had our first real local mate sip! whooo!
tonight we are gonna take a bus to rio gallegos, keep your fingers crossed it´s over 30 hours travelling...hasta luego!
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