A special resting time

Posted by Javier on 18 February 2010

Hi!

Today we woke up in another beautiful place in the beautiful Patagonia. We decided to change to Argentina ten days or so ago, because we got lots of rain in the verdant rainforests of Chile. It paid dividends, since we enjoyed drier conditions in Argentina, but the situation has changed the last days.

It is still drier than in Chile, since we are in the rain shadow of the Andes (the clouds come from the Pacific in the West), but it is raining now and will continue like that for at least 4 days more. It is coldish also.

So in a sudden decission after checking the map we decided to visit Peninsula Valdes, one of the very best places in the World to observe penguins, whales, sea lions and sea elephants. It is just a night far by bus . We still have to decide if we leave the bikes here or if we put them in the bus with us. The first option would leave us freedom for moving there between the several faunal observatories, the second would allow us to just pick up a couple of beaches and let us enjoy the fauna around us while doing nothing. Uhm...we don´t know yet.

In any case we will resume the bike trip from the same place in Patagonia (Esquel) in about 4-5 days from now, hopefully in better weather conditions. We have ridden 12146 Km till now, and I guess we will reach about 14500 Km in Ushuaia. This leaves us with a tight schedule for the next weeks, in cold and windy areas of Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

We will worry about that little detail later, for now we just aim to enjoy the +20 C of the coast and the gorgeous wildlife of Peninsula Valdes.

22 comments. Tags: Argentina, Peninsula Valdes, rain. Location: Esquel, Argentina