070110 - "Sorry, we're full!"

Bariloche, ARG - After hearing the same answer from all the 5 hostels I called the day before we would arrive in Bariloche, I knew this place was going to be stacked up to the max. And getting there, seeing it with my own eyes even succeeded my worst expectations. Bariloche seems to have been built for only one reason: tourism. Everywhere you would look the one thing you see: tourists.

But, of course, there's a reason why this place is so popular...

Oh, the accommodation problem we solved by staying at an old (kinda grumpy) lady's place who migrated to Argentina from Lubljana after World War II. The hut she rented out "didn't have an architect" why climbing the stairs could be somewhat dangerous at times, especially after having drunk too much. (Lucky me, that never happend while staying there). Later that day we saw many people who came with us on the bus running around town with a list of accommodations, handed out by the tourist office, desperately trying to find something to stay at.

Luckily I met all my Israeli friends from Mendoza again in Bariloche... And as we haven't seen us in quiet a while this called for a big party bashing. Well, end of story is me falling out of my top bunkbed - and having no memory of it whatsoever. Till the people from my dorm ask me the next evening (when I was getting up) if I was alright. And I am like, "Why? What happend?" - Realizing the scratch on my knee. ;o)

During the days we stayed in Bariloche I went for several bike rides: climbing Cerro Catedral, Circuito Chico, by bike to Villa La Angostura and Bosque de Arrayanes...