After an excellent sleep in our huge suite, opened the shutters to a glorious day overlooking the lake and snow topped mountains in the distance. The whole hotel is styled on a Tuscan villa, it certainly feels like we are in an Italian corner of Argentina. Ate a big breakfast in anticipation of our 12km walk that would take about 3 hours – of medium difficulty. See below a helpful map of all the trails in the ‘Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi’ It should be possible to open up and make bigger. Basically you register with the park people, pay a small fee and off you go. It also shows times that you must set off by. The animals on the poster denote those one might spy on your walk.
Drove to the ferry by the lake, plan was to take the ferry to the end of the pinnacle (see walk 19, 6-8 hours there and back) and walk one way, back to the car.
We went to buy our one way boat ticket, only to be told the whole park was closed due to high winds – apparently very common for trees to fall in such conditions. We decided to return to the village and collect our laundry. This hotel did not take laundry which is quite common in Patagonia. The solution is simple, go to one of the many laundry places found in any town. Put your dirties in during the morning and they are ready in the evening. Cost around $250 (US$5.50) pesos a load. It’s returned all dried and folded. Anything that can’t go in the drier they hang to dry. Works well. I speak no Spanish and nor did the ladies in the launderette, but we seemed to manage. Nothing requires ironing in Patagonia and if it did it’s the wrong clothing to wear here! An added bonus, we stumbled across in the centre of town, was the World Mountain Running Championships, quite a big deal too.
Next up, decided to retrace some of the journey yesterday as now blue skies with raging winds. This time rewarded with wonderful views. Vast picturesque scenery that takes your breath away. This is where the condors soar, think I have spotted some but they were too far away to be sure. Also took ourselves to another Chile border post.
Enjoying a lovely cup of Ceylon tea (big tip bring tea bags, most of the tea we have experienced has not been to our taste, as most hotels have anything but English breakfast tea and Earl Grey). Wishing we had had that walk today, it would have been amazing, hopefully in Bariloche we can find another one assuming the winds die down. Internet being very slow today – driving me nuts trying to get this finished!
Sunday morning now but internet seems faster! Ate at Nicoletta last night, a surprisingly good inexpensive Italian, the pasta, made fresh on the premises was light and delicious. David still asleep, so no editing, perhaps he will look at it and update later!
Argentina Travel Log 2019 
Photos fabulous, is the pool in your room? Wow! What a shame your walk was delayed, anticipating reports of wildlife when you finally get to explore. The scenery is truly magnificent, how envious am I about the view form your room. x
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It is an amazing landscape and hard to capture from the camera on the phone! Tad bit strange a large tub – jacuzzi in the bedroom all be it a big room, but I Guess the romantic thing to do would be to have a bubbly jacuzzi for two with some wine overlooking the view. There is no bubble bath as suspect it could produce too many bubbles!
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