070120 - "There's just too much to do here"

El Bolson, ARG - I wasn't rushing myself like many of the friends I had going down south. The majority of them took a bus straight from Bariloche to El Calafate. An at least 30 hour busride! No why that I'd be up for that. I decided to take it slow.

I was recommended a very chilled place not too far from Bariloche, called El Bolson. Smaller town, less tourists, better beer, more relaxed atmosphere. And that's just the way it is. Well, there are quiet a few tourists here. Especially young students. It's amazing. I don't really know if kids in Germany go as much countryside as kids do here -- which is great. People seem to appreciate a lot more of what they have here then back in Europe.

I arrived in El Bolson with the intention wanting to stay only a few nights, three at the most. I ended up staying almost ten, as Aldana, the very lovely girl from the Hostel Refugio Patagonico, kept on giving me all this information on what to do and where to go that I finally surrendered begging her not to giving me any more information. I wanted to leave. I needed to keep going south. Or I'd be "stuck" here for more than a months. ;o) Nevertheless I made the most out of my time being here: mountainbiking or hiking in the area every single day!