28th September. San Carlos de Bariloche, well placed in an area known as the Lake District. This time the coach journey was made easier thanks to some red wine (its only 1 pound a bottle, and good!!). Leaving the whales of Puerto Madryn we woke up 15 hours later, opened the curtains and were greeted with snow capped mountains reflected in the motionless lakes below them. The buildings had turned from painted concrete slabs to stunning wooden cabins surrounded by green, what a transformation! This town is famous for its skiing (largest resort in the south of… south America!), chocolate shops, more chocolate shops, chocolate factories and a ski clothes shops! We arrived at our hostel, the Tango Inn Downtown, it turns out to be probably our nicest hostel yet. We were shown to a double room with views straight onto the lake and mountains behind, then there is the free Jacuzzi with a view that would keep you there for hours! The crazy guys from Israel were also here but about to leave for Chile. Our first day we hit the slopes, the snow here is amazing and the view from the top…. well…see the pictures!!! We did however forget suncream…. after laughing at everyone on the bus back for having stupid white goggle marks around their eyes we got back to our room only to discover two Panda´s staring back at us in the mirror! We were bright red with massive white sunglass marks… which got worse by the minute!! To give you an idea how bad; when we walked in for breakfast the next morning everyone turned their heads, stopped eating, and just stared in amazement! So that day was spent amusing the locals around the town, Im sure some asked if they could have their picture taken with us, so we made a quick exit into a chocolate shop for some delicious cake. We have loved our time in Bariloche, just waking up and looking out onto the lake and mountains is a reason to visit, but tomorrow we take our Panda eyes further towards Santiago, a town called Mendoza… still in Argentina and famous for wine…. obvious why we choose it ey!?!!!

Po 15.hod ceste se probouzime do slunneho dne, nabizi se nam nadherny pohled na zasnezene hory a azurova jezera. Mesto nazvem San Carlos de Bariloche je jednim z nejvyhledavanejsich lyzarskych center v Jiz.Am. (zdejsi hory jsou nejvyssimi a nejrozlehlejsimi na jihu Jizni Ameriky). Mestecko je proslule nejen svym osobitym kouzlem, ale i okolni prirodou, mnozstvim obchudku s cokoladou, a nadhernymi kousky zimniho obleceni, ktere najdete na kazdem kroku. Samozrejme neodolame znovu predvest nase lyzarske umeni a tak se vydavame na horu Corro(hora)Cathedral a uzivame si nadherneho dne. Sjezdovky mame skoro cele pro sebe a snih je perfektni! A bonus navic-pohled do dalekych zasnezenych hor a prilehlych jezer. Po celodennim vylete se vracime zpet, a smejeme se kazdemu kdo ma opalene tvare a velke bile kruhy kolem oci ze slunecnich bryli, hm a jak komicke kdyz se po navratu do hostelu podivame do zrcadla a vidime uplne totozne barevne odstiny. Dalsi 2 dny travime odpocinkem, varime, spime, koukame tv, relaxujeme ve vodni vyrivce (nejvetsi hostelovy luxus jak jsme zatim meli) a hlavne stahujeme fota do blogu. Nezapomeneme na proslulou cokoladu a kolace, prohlidneme historicke centrum a take si uzivame nezapomenutelny pohled na zdejsi prirodu!

Nase dalsi a posledni zastavka v Argentine je mesto Mendoza - proslule pro sve vinarske oblasti a take geograficke umisteni ve znamem pohoru Andy..!