Erin & Regan's South American Adventure
Bariloche and Llao Llao
Hola,
We arrived in Bariloche quite late at night and proceeded to walk half the town looking for a place to stay, everywhere we found was either full or some exorbitant price. We eventually found a place which was ok, cheap even for what it was, but it had no kitchen we could use.
The next morning it was up, and into town to check out the hiking club for information about treks and so on. They had a booklet in Spanish describing the various treks, we grabbed that and then wandered around town a bit. They have St Bernard rescue dogs in the main plaza for tourists to have their picture taken. I wonder if they actually rescue people or if they´re just for show. Perhaps they work the plaza on their days off? There were puppies too, they were probably only a month or two old but still huge.
That afternoon we headed out for a half day walk to a place called Llao Llao (the double-L is pronounced "sh" here in Argentina). Our booklet described the walk... unfortunately it wasn´t a very good description and we had to ask for some directions. Unfortunately they gave us directions to a different walk, which while it was still good was not as good as the one we had planed to take (as Erin would discover when she did it later on).
The walk we ended up doing was a gentle stroll first through some largish trees, then through a long almost tunnel of bamboo like stuff. It ran around the lake shore to a smaller lake where we stopped for some photos.
There was also a small bridge in the area, see if you can spot Erin.
On the way back we photographed the main lake. The reflection of the hills on the lake surface is kinda cool.
Then it was back into town for dinner, bed and to plan our 3 day 2 night hike.
