dx �back at the hotel, that was 9 hours, i'm hecking tired, will post stuff when i'm less tired
morning! today: circuito chico, which should be shorter
the thing of not having plans is working out great in the end: we walk into a tourism agency (there's one every 50 meters), we tell them something, we give them money, they arrange the rest, next day 9am we got something to do
this doesn't work for fancier activities like riding horses but i'll try to do that after bariloche somehow
the tour guide is the same guy as yesterday, didn't need to tell him my name, cute
circuito chico is indeed small (we're heading back to the city already) but still very cute
a lot of my photos are gonna be generic tourist photos because we get predefined stops in these tours but that's okay too
pizza here is thicker by default ("al molde"). thin pizza is called "a la piedra". also nearly every pizza has a fuckton of cheese
you may Additionally make your thick pizza thicker by getting a slice of fainá (standard italian: farinata) which is something you put under the pizza that looks like pizza bread but is made of chickpea flour
the sky is blue, the weather is nice, the trees are green, the flowers are pink, things couldn't be less spooky and orange
you can tell it's argentina because the cars outside have been going crazy with the horns for the last half hour because one of the big football teams won
they kept going for like one hour and a half total, i think it's over
nah we went outside and they are still going just not so loud
update: it's 10pm, they got a whole march going, with drums and other instruments??? these people are serious about sports. and this is a relatively small city! (100k pop + unknown number of tourists)
morning! i managed to sleep, despite Sports. today: cerro catedral, which should have snow still
the girl from the tourism agency was kind enough to let us know that packs for cerro catedral are not worth it, because there are no tour guides for it, just overpriced transport. so we're taking a normal bus, for about 180 ARS (0.63 USD)
for contrast:
- a "pack" for catedral we got offered was 3600 ARS (12 USD)
- taking a remis (~taxi) there costs 2000 ARS (7 USD)
- cerro tronador (the one that was 9 hours long) was 8700 ARS (30 USD)
- a "pack" for catedral we got offered was 3600 ARS (12 USD)
- taking a remis (~taxi) there costs 2000 ARS (7 USD)
- cerro tronador (the one that was 9 hours long) was 8700 ARS (30 USD)
something tells me my luck avoiding the plague might end here
probably worth it tho. this was really good :3
[pic from oct 19] alfajores are such a good concept, how do you even do a small packaged street-compatible snack elsewhere in the world? (i think i just, don't?)
other stuff i recently checked from my food todo list:
[x] sanguche de milanesa
[x] chipa (technically paraguayan food)
[x] sanguche de milanesa
[x] chipa (technically paraguayan food)
i've been posting very few pics because i can't do the thing of selecting the prettiest pics on my laptop and uploading them here because the hotel wifi kinda sucks
we're heading back to the airport. this was a very cute city, i see why it's such a big tourism destination
god i hope i didn't catch the plague from this, i still have to go to cordoba, la plata, maybe uruguay, maybe ekoparty
okay 2.5 hours to kill at the airport, photo backlog time
[oct 21] bariloche city center (the wiggly uphill street is the one that went to our hotel. we were very exhausted every single time we got there)
[oct 21, 22] some kind of duck, some kind of bird, a specific kind of goose ("upland goose" / "cauquén")
[oct 22] the main roads are by the lake, and there are a bunch of other lakes too, so if you go anywhere things look like this
[oct 22] there's this river called "rio manso". manso means tame. the people from chile named it like that because it's chill on that side. on this side, if you fall, you fast-travel to chile and also die. but it also looks pretty
[oct 22] wanted: torrent duck. if you see something, say something. help us catch this criminal pirate duck.
also lmao that english translation. "it is notorious for the way in which anything and dive into rushing waters". they translated "nada" from "nadar" (to swim) as if it was "nada" as in "nothing"
[oct 22] eheheh he hehehhe get it "cerrado" because it's full of cerros all over the place
okay boarded the plane back to buenos aires, see you later :3
it's cute how people here clap when the airplane lands on time. like a whole applause.
i also like how the buenos aires city airport is just called AEP, like it just means aeropuerto (airport). as if it was *the* airport. (it actually means aeroparque / airpark, but close enough)
most of the train/bus terminals are in retiro. i love this place. it's very busy, it's full of street sellers, and you can see villa 31 (one of the biggest shanty towns) leaking in between the train station buildings. it's very raw argentina
i really wanted to take a photo but it's a bad idea to have your phone anywhere visible while walking there
i brought 5 covid tests here and just used one (negative) and now it's time to find out:
can you buy these tests at all in this country, in all its thirdworldness and its world-class denial of the pandemic?
the answer appears to be yes, but:
- you get one
- you gotta fill in a form with your personal information
- you have to report results within 24 hours
- the packaging has german text
- you get one
- you gotta fill in a form with your personal information
- you have to report results within 24 hours
- the packaging has german text
oh also it costs 2000 ARS (7 USD) each
anyway, i'm home, i took measures to not kill my parents, gonna continue the picdump from earlier
[oct 22] we reach cerro tronador, and the two glaciers (manso and ventisquero negro). i think this is, from inside the mountain? like, we were surrounded by mountain.
[oct 22] we got a bonus section because we were such a well behaved group (and the day was beautiful). saltillo de las nalcas, a waterfall. did some actual hiking. i love hiking.
[oct 22] there was this part near the beginning of the path where the stuff under the water got this orange iron oxide color, which seems to be result of bacteria doing funny stuff
[oct 22] the waterfall (saltillo de las nalcas), easily our favorite part of the day.
and that's it for oct 22! i'll do 23 and 24 later.
i just found a half full 500ml water bottle in a bag i passed through airport security. yay?