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Buenos Aires to Bariloche

Posted in Argentina/Brazil  by chad on November 9th, 2014

For the most part, today is a travel day, and we’re heading from the warm, sunny weather of Buenos Aires up into the mountains near the Chile border. Bariloche is one of a few areas in Argentina best known as ski destinations, but in the offseason still draws tourists with it’s incredible scenery and outdoor activities. We’ll be staying there 5 nights, with no real agenda for what to do. My ace travel planner has secured us a place just out of town with huge windows overlooking the lake, so it’s entirely possible we’ll do little more than melt into a comfortable chair with a good book and a bottle of cheap Malbec.

By the time we get checked in, it is close to dinner time (or what we generally perceive as dinner time), so we hop on the shuttle to town in search of a place to eat. Bariloche is a lot like other ski towns, with shops mostly dedicated to winter gear and touristy trinkets. Two big differences we note off the bat are the abundance of chocolate stores (there are at least two on every block), and that very little is actually open. It’s Sunday, so at first we figure that may have something to do with it, but after a few hours wandering around trying to find a good restaurant, we realize that most places close around 2 in the afternoon and don’t reopen until 7 or 8pm.

There are a lot of blue hairs here on tour buses, so we figure if they can eat late, we can too, so start the slow transition to an Argentinian schedule with a tasty sirloin steak (of course). We’re still on the early side as the place is just starting to fill up as we’re paying the bill, but baby steps.

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