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So the weather was really nice luckily the next day, after my last blog and the cycle ride was beautiful absolutely stunning I have fallen in love with Bariloche I definately want to live there one day. It's like the most perfect location surround by a huge national park covered with forests, loads of moutains making for great hiking and cycling, and ski-ing in winter, warm enough when the suns out and I imagine in summer to enjoy the massive lakes and close enough to a large town that you have all the ammenities you need, its the ideal place and there are some really beautiful and huge houses.
Anyway the cycle ride was hard work 36 km in total, the flats were fine but mostly its was up and down and my bum really hurt by the end of the day, it took about 6 hours in total to cycle everywhere, we crossed over the main lake called Huapi several times and cycled our way round several smaller lakes that surround this main one, there are loads of panoramic viewpoints to stop at all marked on a map that your given at the start and you can cycle to a swiss communtiy a little off the main track, i done this which was nice, a real homely and community feel, but a dog started chasing me, it wasn't a nice experience or the only time it happened but it was uphil and i couldn't cycle fast enough away from it, bloody thing. Near the end of the cycle we went up to a hotel thats just opening it was really posh aparently one of the most expensive hotels in Argentina we werent allowed to look inside but the views from the grounds were the best you could see right through the valleys to the tallest of the surrounding mountains and it was at this point that the sun really started to break through this was good for the view but a pain that it was just getting warm as we had to cycle the 7km uphil back to the beggining. That night was an early one i was exhausted.
On the Friday i got up early to climb up Mount Campinario it is only a short hike, it took around 40 minutes to get up and the views were again spectacular and the low lying cloud cover although not making for great photos made it seem a little more mysterious which was cool.
On the saturday everything closed in Bariloche, they only have half day in argentina on a saturday anyway but because argentina were playing football in the morning here everyone took the day off, so i spent the day watching the football then going to a salsa party next door to the hostel in the evening, it was a nice day to spend relaxing, and getting over my aching legs from the cycling and hiking the previous 2 days.
I used the sunday to begin my journey to El Calafate where i am now, this meant catching a bus overnight then a flight into Calafate the bus was fine and got there at exactly the time expected which is a little unusual and this was very early, i headed for the airport and just had to wait the airport was tiny and had nothing going on so the wait was a bit of a bore but when the time came they decided that the weather was to bad to fly and that we would go in the morning instead, this was a disaster the place i was flying from had no hostels and nothing to do, i ended up staying at a cheap and nasty hotel and having to pay taxis to take me to and from the hotel i wasnt best pleased, and spent the night sulking in the hotel room, anyway when i have eventually ended up here today the hostel here is brand new and so nice its like a posh hotel, so nice and i have booked 2 tours going to the glaciers over the next 2 days i can't wait one on a boat tomorrow and the other walking around the following day, and i think i may go to a nearby town for a couple of days hiking at the weekend so its all worked out well now.
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