Return to Patagonia

Monday 1 February
Puerto Varas, Chile – San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

Basically not much happens today, I just get the bus back to Bariloche the way I came. If I hadn’t booked everything in advance I would have probably gone to Pucón where there is an active volcano where you can touch hot rocks on the side, and it glows red and orange at night.

I also probably would have gone back by a different route just to see some different places – maybe via Santiago and Mendoza for example, but I probably wouldn’t have had time. I would have also liked to have gone to El Calafate but that is too far south on my timetable. Maybe next time.

There wasn’t much to say about the journey, other than I slept a lot, There was an old Chilean woman sat next to me who kept on trying to talk to me in Spanish without me being able to understand her, and a Scottish family also on the bus which meant that I could at least talk to someone in English (as opposed to mime) for a change.

When I returned to Bariloche I checked in at Hostel 1004 where I had already booked a room and went out to the pub. But there was hardly anyone there and there wasn’t much going on so I went back to the hostel and surfed the net a bit.