Day 15 – Let’s rock and roll

Bariloche is located in the province of Río Negro in Argentina. The city was founded in 1902, has about 105 000 inhabitants and is located in the heart of the Nahuel Huapi National Park and on the shores of the Nahuel Huapi Lake. The city is also called the Switzerland of South America. Not difficult if you know that the founders of the city  come from Germany, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary and northern Italy. Both in architecture with the Swiss chalet style and in the economy, in the first place with the chocolate industry, you can see the impact still today.

We make the day trip ‘Circuite grande’. At the start it is clear that the weather gods are still not in a good mood. It's overcast and it is raining. We still have a glimmer of hope that it will be better in the steppe, but that is still to be proven. We drive along the Nahuel Huapi Lake and Limahy river. The dirt road is dangerously at times. Uprooted trees lie along the side of the road. The result of the bad weather. We continue to follow the Traful river. Unfortunately it gets not really better. At times the rain pours down. The photo stops fall almost all literally in the water. We stop in the village Traful where we warm up with a cup of hot chocolate and a piece of cake. We continue along to Puerto Arrayanes. From there we follow the route along the seven lakes. The road runs between the lakes Correntoso and Espeyo to Villa la Angostura. Here we have some time for lunch. After our gigantic cake, no one is really hungry. So we share some pizzas in the pizzeria. Exploring the village does not sound like fun in this terrible weather, so we decide to go back to Bariloche, a drive of just over an hour. Outside, there is not much to see apart from the rain. But on the bus we do. Not only see but also hear. Our driver and guide emerge as real deejays and we entertain ourselves with singing and dancing. You can’t change the weather but having fun is largely in your own hands. This was proved today.