Bus: 25 - 26 Feb (El Chalten - El Calafate - Rio Gallegos - Comodoro Rivadavia - El Bolson)

Yes, that´s right, more than one day on buses.  In fact, [lucky] 42 hours!  And did I mention, that I had a serious case of drinking-dodgy-water stomach?  (looking back now at the way I signed off my last post, I can now appreciate the warning signs... :-)  )

 

Anyway, it took some research in CaféLatté, and a morning in Chalten to carefully synchronise, confirm, book, and pay for 4 different buses with no more than a 4 hour gap between to get to El Bolson near Bariloche.  And I spent the four hour gap with my buddy Moshe (who I met in Buenos Aires) and the two Natalies at a great, but not too expensive wine bar having pizza. Being Israelies, they easily helped me sneak my stuff into their hostel to store for a few hours.

 

What else, well, most of Patagonia is about 6.359% wetter than the driest part of the Karoo.  But because the vegetation is multi-coloured, it is a bit more interesting.  And the underground oilfields are being pumped continuously with small bucking-bronco/Texan/whatever oil-pumps, while the oil tankers line up along the whole coast.   Having said that it is very dry, there are plently of incredible, blue/green rivers crossing the scrub, without even a green tree lining the banks.  A combination on the dry air, and cold, long winters.