After a few days of living the high life Maura decided that it was time for me to lose the extra pounds I´d gained so we shipped off to St Martin De Los Andes south of Mendoza. St Martin is at the top of Patagonia and is a small town surrounded by lakes, mountains and lots and lots of hiking trails. We put these to good use with a couple of days of energy sapping forced marches up and down large hills. It was a fantastic couple of days and I even got to lead the march which of course resulted in a bit of off trail activity (I wasn´t entirely lost - just a little.)
Next stop was Bariloche further into Patagonia. Again this was a lake surrounded town with stunning scenery and beautiful walks - not sure why we ended up in an Irish pub then! Still we managed to get a couple of great walks in there as well. We were going to head to Chile next but decided that whale watching was more important so we took the famous route 40 across Argentina to Puerto Madryn.
Puero Madryn was a great experience where we hoped to catch Orca´s eating seals off the beach. Unfortunately there is only a 3% chance of seeing this (not mentioned in any of the tourist books). We didn´t even get to see Orcas which was a shame but fantastic viewings of right whales, sealions, Elephant seals, foxes, ostriches(!) an amardillo and tons of pinguins (spelt how the spanish say it) made up for it.
We have now decided to break the bank and head down to the Glaciers of El Calafate (something we can´t afford but have to see), we have just got off a 25 hour bus and we are now going for our beautiful dinner of bread and water....... just kidding we just spent 2 quid on a steak as big as my head, can´t wait!
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