Bariloche is a beautiful sky resort town in Southern Argentina. It's cold there, but you're refreshed with a wonderful aroma of chocolate. Bariloche is know all over the world for it's chocolate.
It started off at 6 am. We rented a minibus to take us to Paraná since we had to catch the 8 am bus to Bariloche. We waited for our bus and when it arrived, we settled down in the comfortable, bed-like seats and drifted off to sleep. It was a 26 hour bus ride. I'm pretty sure I was only awake for about 5 of those hours. A couple to watch movies and then to eat. The scenery wasn't much. Just flat land, just like Illinois. So nothing was really keeping me from sleeping.
We finally arrived in the late morning and was awakened by the brisk gusts of wind howling outside. We didn't realize it was going to be SO cold. We got 3 taxis (because there were 10 of us traveling together) and made our way to our hostel. We couldn't check in until 2pm so we left our luggage at the hostel and ventured out to explore the town. The town reminded me a lot of Vail, Colorado, except we were on this huge lake called Nahuel Huapi. It was so beautiful. Our hostel was way above it so every morning, I was reminded of how awesome God's beauty is.
We stayed there for 4 days. We chilled, walked, shopped, ate, slept. You name it. One of the days 7 of the girls went white water rafting. I opted out of it since I'm trying to save money and I've done it before. They had a lot of fun from all the stories I heard.
Being in the town was definitely an experience I'll never forget. A couple of the nights, I put my cooking to good use and showed the girls how to make popcorn on the stove. So I got a couple oil burns on my arms, but it was well worth it. We got up early Thursday morning to head to Santiago, Chile. More adventures to come!
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