Bariloche or Braziloche (how the Argentinians call it due to the fact that there are so many Brazilian tourists) is a very touristy city surrounded by amazing mountain peaks and beautiful lakes. The city has everything to offer that a tourist can only imagine, lots of shops, chocolate stores and many good restaurants and bars. Since it was off season there were not too many tourists, but in the "summer" the streets must be packed and no rooms are available.
The area reminded me a little of Lake Tahoe, I can not necessarily explain why, just a feeling.
The horrible weather from the day before was forgotten. We had beautiful blue skies and sun shine, the temperature was around 65 degrees. At the hostel "Marco Polo Inn" I met John, Brad and Nina (which I have met on the Navimag) at breakfast and they invited me to join them on a bike ride. We took a bus to a refugio nearby where we picked up our bikes and then went shopping for lunch before we took off on the "Cirquito Chico", a 32 km trip around the lakes and up and down the mountains.
"Captain Adventure" and his ride at the Llao Llao hotel and the lake in the background. At this point we still had energy and joked around. Well, that changed a little later ....
The plan was to take a photo of me with the lake and mountains in the back drop. Then this dog showed up and John just kept taking shots of me trying to make the dog leave .... he just would not go away ....
Unbelievable views and amazing colours, especially with the snow covered mountains in the back.
More views ..... just enjoy.
The next day I went on an excursion with a group of people. We did parts of the tour I biked the day before, but then we also visited the ski resort of Bariloche, surprisingly they have quite a few good runs here, as documented by the map below. Probably boring for Shana, Scottie and Fabio, but more than sufficient for me :-)
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