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Mendoza and Buenos Aires, AGAIN

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Mendoza and Buenos Aries

The weather had turned down south so a trip to Patagonia on a boat would have been next to madness. So in order so save time at the end we decided to cut straight across to Buenos Aries, at such short notice the flights were very dear so we decided to overland it on a bus.

The trip to Mendoza was quite pleasant and involved a wonderfully scenic jaunt thru the andes, the first half was new while the second half I covered in my previous post about Mendoza. We stayed there one night before taking a bus the following night to Buenos aries where we arrived the Friday morning. BA in time for the weekend, could be dodgy.

In BA we did alot of the things which I had left off my original visit intentionally so I was having the same sense of discovery as Marilyn. Such things as the graveyard in recoleta where the remains of evita lie to a walk through the streets of Palermo before sitting down to a steak which could easily contest a heavyweight prize fight such was its sheer mass and quality. The highlight of my second visit to BA was undoubtedly the Monday evening where we traversed the city from our san telmo hostel which was excellent, to somewhere close to Palermo where some school of percussion put on a weekly show for anyone that wants to hear. I heard about this event on my first trip but due to tooth problems I had to put if off until now and to be honest it was well worth the wait.

We grabbed a couple of beers and lost ourselves in a fantastic celebration of rythym. A few different conductors took turns in instructing all the 15 or so musicians, it changed it swooped and it devoured. Thoroughly high on rhythm we ventured back to san telmo and into the restaurant they call el desnivel. Set in the heart of san telmo its really impossible to miss and boy is it worth it.  Am amazing steak served with the house red which was to these lips the best I have ever tasted and at less than 4 euros for the bottle it really was a giggle to pay so less but know that I would have to pay so much more to get anything even remotely close to the quality.

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San Martin de los Andes

Monday, August 10th, 2009

For a few days I plotted my escape from bariloche. It didn’t make me happy to leave the place but time itself was running out before I was to meet Marilyn in Santiago. When I left I figured I had 7 days before she was to arrive into Santiago.The route which piqued the most interest was to grab a bus to the mountain village of san martin de los andes and then grab a boat to the Chilean border, walk 12 kilometres to the border and then a further 2 to a ferry which traverses a lake called pernipucho which by some accounts is one of the most pleasing to the eye border crossings in this part of the world. It sounded perfect, too perfect. On getting to SMDLA I discovered that the boat was not running for the 1 month low season that this town experiences. Well balls anyways!! I decided to try and traverse the border by other means. I packed up my mochilla and headed on out to road that heads to the Hui Hin border crossing. I figured that surely there would be plenty of traffic on this road, but alas not. I stood for a couple of hours before someone willing to pick up this gringo came by. It was a bit of a rust bucket but it did thtrick, I jumped into the back of the pickup truck and held onto all that was firm and fastened. The road was not sealed so it made for a seriously dusty ride, dusty and bumpy. I was thrown all over the place for the 35 or so kilometres.I dismounted at hui hinn as far as this farmer was going, I was still 12 km short of my target and the sun was in the sky. I had only 1 hour to make the border and beyond to the ferry. It the only option of transport I wasn’t willing to take the risk that there would be no accommodation on the Chilean side so I had to accept defeat and headed back to San Martin. Luckily enough there was a tourist bus visiting a local waterfall that picked me up, I must have been a rather amusing sight for the SLR totting argentinian tourists, I ignored the giggles and sat back in for the journey to San Martin.

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Bariloche

Monday, August 10th, 2009

After Mendoza I travelled south to bariloche. A 20 hour bus ride punctured only by a rather amusing game of bingo – the numbers called out by a rather camp bus attendant. Not sure if there was a prize, I ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Mendoza

Monday, June 8th, 2009
For healths sake I had to get out of Buenos Aires. Between leaving Melbourne and arriving in the place voted 'worst place ever to plan a detox' by AA and then sticking it for 10 days with the odd root ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Some Pictures

Monday, June 8th, 2009
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Buenos Aires

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

And so to Buenos Aires. I arrived at about 11 am on the 6th of may, you may remember that I left sydney ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Leaving Oz and the 10 minute flight to Buenos Aires

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
I really love Melbourne - Its a great city which I am very sad to have left, I would love to think that I would return one day and stay for just as long if not longer, the place has ... [Continue reading this entry]

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