Bariloche 17.february.2004

Bariloche....

Bariloche. What can I say about this city?#$?. Maybie great to rent a big orange colored wood house at the see and share time with friends. The city is crowded by an amount of tourist coming mostly from Argentina, so it make it boring. (for me). A little center with 4 houses seems to directly come from a Walt Disney parc with the theme "Switzerland". There you find the St Bernard dog and can spend some money to make a photo with these dog and the kitchy environment.
When you go out of the city the landscape is more attractive but after El Chalten it was difficult to be impressed by this mountains.
Tim comes from Sydney. Together we made the way from El Calafate to Bariloche. And as we arrived we tried to get a Bus-tiket to Chilie. But everything was full until a week. So we tried to found an other way...the Airway. In two days we will leave Argentina for Chile.
To sleep we found a strange loft for backpackers. There you have 4 solutions.
1- you get a room for 16 pesos. But you have to find some empty bed what we didn t found.
2- you get a room with empty beds but its 7 km out of the city. To far....
3- you sleep on the floor. Thats okay for me so we did.
4- Find a other place to sleep. No thx. I m lasy today.

But it seems that a lot of people took solution 3 and thats look like that on the morning.
Its a kind of funny when you wake up and have this perspective all arround you. You feel as a survivor of the second war just after the battle (for the new generation readers lets say after a night of Quake)
But the second night we had solution number 1. Hehe.
Tim is an amazing guy because when he find something that you can read, Tim get it...read it and leave it. Its a word eater. I m exactly the same but at the opposite. We spend the last Argentinian days together. Allways getting the 10 flors down in one off the 4 elevators, that just never arrived when you want and squetch you and your bag with the metal doors. Taking this elevadors can be compared with the film CUBE. You enter in a room and fear about what can happen. The miror in back of you just stay on the wall with one nail and two piece of something ...You push on a button to get on the top but it goes down....Yes a very strange feeling. But its okay.
Next day we went on a little treck to the lliao lliao peninsule. Bambus, big giant threes, beautifull landscape, catch of the little mouse I ever seen. She bite me twice...but thats okay too.

Nights we went to eat to a libre restaurant (*all you can eat). There we met Jesus. Not the dead one, no, no, the french Jesus. I don t know why but he seems to have a lot of interest for us. Can you imagine Jesus with Tim and Fred. Did you know that Jesus just loved to fish? That he is a millionnaire? Waaoow. And the best is he proposed me to see some Aliens. But I make a world tour and so I will suggest to make the Alien tour later...

The days in Bariloches cames to a end and the next day we flew to Puerto Montt in Chile

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