Puerto Madryn

21 hours to Puerto Madryn by bus..

50 hours in Puerto Madryn..

20 hours back to Cordoba by bus..

Class.

Difficult..

But the whales were AMAZING.

Benjamin, Stefan and me

Thats one of the whales.. and me in my kayak.. so close

Haha on the bus ride there they played the movie, Everythings Fine, which is awfully slow moving. Stefan slept while Benjamin and I stayed up and watched it. We all woke up and they put the same film on at 7:30am and Benja went, "Oh my god.. this movie went so slow the first time.. I dont know, it must go in slow motion this time". 5 hours left on the way home, and I was staring out the window at the picturesque country side of Argentina between Cordoba and the tip of Patagonia and the view of the fields and tall trees reminded me of impressionist french paintings.. Writing in my journal to pass the time, I wrote, "I feel like I'm looking at a 1880 french landscape painting when I look out the window, I wish Ben was sleep talking next to me so that it would seem even more legitimate." (Benjamin is from Grenoble, near the Alps in France). I read him that and he closed his eyes and began to mumble in french for the next ten minutes, perhaps the most entertaining thing on the trip for me.

The first night we ate an asado at our hostel and slept before waking up at six am to get dressed for our kayaking trip. We spent four and a half hours kayaking right alongside WHALES. It was hard after a while but seeing a whale for the first time, only ten feet away or so, was worth it. We were all exhausted afterwards but we took a break in the middle and went hiking along these cliffs that overlooked the nature preserve we were on and the water.. breathtaking. On the kayak ride back, the sea lions swam alongside us.