Entering Patagonia
10/19/05
We slept until late (Coyhaique) since the bus was leaving only at 1 p.m. and it was still raining. The trip was actually a mix of bus and boat ride. The bus drove us to Puerto Ibañez, a town just by a lake that spreads into Chilean and Argentinean territory. It is called Lago Carreta on the Chilean side and Lago Buenos Aires on the Argentinean side.
From Puerto Ibañez a ferry-boat took us to Chile Chico ...
... and that was the end of our ticket, some three hours after we had left Coyhaique we were again on our on, this time right at the boarder of Chile and Argentina.
There was only one cab driver waiting in Chile Chico which happened to help us. We told him we wanted to go into Argentina; so after we negotiated a price, he drove us to the border (it is quite far and it is not a walkable distance), waited for us to get the papers done and then took us to Los Antiguos on the Argentinean side. The scary thing here is that this is the absolutely nowhere land and all the immigration paper work is done by the army.
Here was the first time we got a feeling of being in Patagonia. The driver was nice and stopped when he saw we were trying to snap a shot of the landscape.
Well, now we were in Argentinean land and had again to figure out transport. In Los Antiguos we were left by the bus station where we bought a bus ticket to Calafate, the nearest town to the National Park Los Glaciares, The only problem was that Calafate was some 1,200 kilometers away from Los Antiguos, and dude that is a long ride.
The cool thing was that it was an excellent two-floor bus with movies, coffee and water and absolutely no other passengers, just Angie and I. The bus left at 8 p.m and drove non-stop into the night.
We slept until late (Coyhaique) since the bus was leaving only at 1 p.m. and it was still raining. The trip was actually a mix of bus and boat ride. The bus drove us to Puerto Ibañez, a town just by a lake that spreads into Chilean and Argentinean territory. It is called Lago Carreta on the Chilean side and Lago Buenos Aires on the Argentinean side.
From Puerto Ibañez a ferry-boat took us to Chile Chico ...
... and that was the end of our ticket, some three hours after we had left Coyhaique we were again on our on, this time right at the boarder of Chile and Argentina.
There was only one cab driver waiting in Chile Chico which happened to help us. We told him we wanted to go into Argentina; so after we negotiated a price, he drove us to the border (it is quite far and it is not a walkable distance), waited for us to get the papers done and then took us to Los Antiguos on the Argentinean side. The scary thing here is that this is the absolutely nowhere land and all the immigration paper work is done by the army.
Here was the first time we got a feeling of being in Patagonia. The driver was nice and stopped when he saw we were trying to snap a shot of the landscape.
Well, now we were in Argentinean land and had again to figure out transport. In Los Antiguos we were left by the bus station where we bought a bus ticket to Calafate, the nearest town to the National Park Los Glaciares, The only problem was that Calafate was some 1,200 kilometers away from Los Antiguos, and dude that is a long ride.
The cool thing was that it was an excellent two-floor bus with movies, coffee and water and absolutely no other passengers, just Angie and I. The bus left at 8 p.m and drove non-stop into the night.
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