San Carlos de Bariloche

We are now in Bariloche. As you have probably already noticed, we took today off from touring to catch up on the blog. We were behind by at least a week and our hostel here has free, fast internet. So today we haven´t done much except catch up on laundry and walk to into town to buy chocolate. You know, the necessities. Bariloche is famous for its chocolate shops and we´ve kept them in business for one more week.
We got here Thursday night after a 29 hour bus ride. That´s right, 29 hours from El Calafate. Luckily, we made this trip without any problems. We spent yesterday touring the town center and taking pictures. Seth and I have both been here before during our time at Word of Life. We came down here with our bilingual program as a vacation for the students.
Bariloche sits right on a lake with mountains all around. Its a great place for hiking, rafting, kayaking, etc. We had originally planned to do some of this here. It is normally much warmer here this time of year, but our time here has been very cold and windy- almost colder than Ushuaia. So we will save the rafting for later. Here are some pictures from around town.

the town square

another from the square

St. Bernards are the unofficial mascot of Bariloche. You can pay to get your picture with them in the town square.

Catholic church near the center

chocolate

 

more chocolate

Tomorrow morning we are taking a bus to San Martin de los Andes, which is 3 hours from here. Hopefully the weather will be a little warmer so we can be outside a little more. We`ll see!