I left Mendoza, the last city, overhastly in the evening and arrived after 2,5 hours in a bus to San Juan. This time I decided to take it more relaxed... The next day I took my time (two hours!) to wash my clothes, enjoy lunch in a delicious vegetarian restaurant (which changed my view on Argentine cuisine), walk through the city (with the typical "standing in front of closed door") and touch the two armed palm - there are only three of those all over the wh...

I am known for being chronically in stress, always hurrying from one thing to another. Scarcely completed an activity I am eager to embark new ventures. This quirk was repressed during the joint traveling with the relaxed French and Italian for a few days. However, as soon as we parted company, hurry was knocking on my door again. So after leaving Bariloche and arriving to Mendoza - in the Andean west of Argentina and known as the wine capital of Argentina wi...

After having spent only 1,5 days in hippies' town El Bolson I rushed together with my Italian and French travel companions to Bariloche, situated right on the east of the Andes, only two hours by bus away. A city known for excellent chocolate, immigrated Swiss, beautiful surroundings and Nazis. Right, Nazis. I heard it on the grapevine that even Hitler is thought to had been seen here. (I only saw one Neonazi) ________________________________________________...

26 hours by bus to spend 1,5 days in el bolson.el bolson = "hippie town" of Argentinahippies seen in el bolson: 3. more or less...I came to El Bolson expecting a town full of stoned hippies. I came and saw a mini town full of average argentine people who might make a bit more "homemade jam / pastry / chocolate / honey..." then the rest of Argentina. Maybe all the hippies were swept away on the wave of marihuana trips after they had come to El Bolson in the 1970...

Here I am, writing a short blog entry again...I spent three days in a little town, El Calafate, which is named after a berry, growing in Patagonia. People say, if you eat this berry, your return to Patagonia is garantueed. I haven't eaten fresh Calafates (it's not the season) but I ate ultrasweet jam made of it.Here I watched wild flamingoes a few metres away from the city centre, was wondering what a single horse does on the shoreline, just between the lake Arge...