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| At the end of your armies!!! ha ha ha sorry about that, it`s just one of those things that has to be done every now and then you know? ok, anyway, I am here in the Andes (believe it or not) and oh my god! It is seriously beuatiful here. The two germans I met on the tour in Puerto Madryn came with me and we got the most uncomfortable bus here which stopped in the most bizarre places in the most bizarre times! In patagonia there are huge distances without anything in between and somwhat illogically the bus driver chose to stop for an hours break in a shack with only a few Gauchos (Argentine cowboys) waiting around for no apparant reason at 5 in the morning instead of waiting until at least 7 or 8 when people were awake. Anyway by that time we had gone through the pampas, totally utterly unrelentlessly flat and desertlike and had finally begun to enter the Andes. Well, all I could think of was geography books at school with these images of the Andes and they seemed like such another wonderful world and I could barely believe I was here. We stopped in a place called El Bolson and it was beautiful, we were so closet to getting off the bus here but it was too late by the time we had discussed it. As we pulled into Bariloche, where we were to disembark we began to regret not having got off the bus as it seemed like this was going to be a dirty city with loads of ramshakle houses etc. but as the bus neared the lake (Bariloche lies in the national park of Nahuel Huapi and surrounds a 100km glacial lake) we realised we had made the right decision. IN Puerto Madryn I met a swiss woman who told me there was an old INdian saying that goes "when you are travelling, sometimes you need to give your soul time to catch up" At the time I didnt really give this much consideration but as we drove around the lake it went round and round my head. This was where my soul needed time to catch up. We fuond a hostel about 5 km out of the town in a place calld Playa Bonita, the first beach the lake has past the town and really truly beuatiful. It is cold here but fresh, the air is full of the scent of pine, everyone is so friendly and will stop their cars in the street to make sure you are going in the correct direction, the lake is surrounded by huge mountains some snowcapped, others with all their trees turning red orange and yellow, (it is the beginning of autumn here). Today Maya ad Torsten (the german couple) and I went white water rafting. It was the first time for all of us and we were told the river was about a level 4 which was pretty exciting as rafting goes apparantly! It was bloody freezing but I loved every minute! THere was one poit when the guy told us that there was a good chance the raft would flip on the next rapid and that loadws of others would get into the water before just to get used to floating downstream int eh safe position, so like sheep we all flipped ourselves in and it was so cold my breath caught in my chest! I had my trainers on which were the only shoes I had with me as the others were in Bs As and it was so cold but so invigorating (I only aprreciated this after I got back in the boat though!) a few more kms down stream ( we went 15kms in the end!) there was a rock 8metres high whihc we climbed and jumped off again into the icy cold water. What a rush! Afterwards we were treated to a ginormous BBQ, I was worried there mght not be enough food for me without all the masses of argentine meat, could I BE more wrong? Maya and I both were shoeless and blue toed as we hadnt bought spare shoes stupidos! Tomorrow we are going horse riding ( Ihope I dont feel the pain too much!) my shoes are drying out on the heater right now and are sizzling like bacon, no doubt they'll fall off ym feet while I`m riding! THis place really is something else, the houses are all alpine and you could really spend forever here just climbing mountains and walking and swimming and everything! anyway I love you all and I`ll speak to you all soon, hope all is well back there, despite all this I am really looking forward to being back home this summer! thinking of you all take care tons of love Emma _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com/ |
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