San Carlos de Bariloche is in Argentina's Lakes District in the south-central part of the country. In the winter, it's a wintersports mecca and the town itself is reminiscent of a Swiss village. At least the tourist part is. The residential part of town is a mess of unpaved roads and poverty...quite a contrast.
The biggest adventure/scare we had was renting a car for two days. There are a couple of qualifiers here: 1) I've never owned a manual transmission vehicle, and while I've driven them before, I would never say I was completely comfortable 2) The car rental place only had manual cars available, and 3) road "rules" in Argentina are almost non-existant, with signs being even less common. Even though I stalled the car a few (a dozen?) times, squeeled out of an inclinded driveway, and had a lot of near misses, we had a fun time and had some well deserved drinks when it was over.
That being said, the scenery was beautiful, and at times, reminded me of the drive from Vancouver to Whistler. We stopped and bought some artisan chocolate, some nice souvenirs, and had an amazing fondue!
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| The view from our room on a windy morning |
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| Caroline making the right types of friends, as usual |
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