Bariloche – Argentina

Trees, Lakes, and Mountains

Lago Mascardi, with Cerro Tronador in the distance.

Stepping from the bus at the Bariloche terminal, somewhat dazed by our two day southward haul, I was immediately struck by how wonderful the place was. It had serene, mirror-like, lakes, soaring, craggy mountains, and giant, awe inspiring trees; but I did not notice these things until later, the reason Bariloche was so immediately, refreshingly, wonderful can be summed up in two(ish) words, twenty-seven degrees. After the pressure-cooker heat of Iguaçu, with its sauna-like humidity and unrelenting, vicious, sunshine, Barloche’s twenty-seven degrees and accompanying cool mountain breeze was like a glass of iced water on a hot summers day. Here was somewhere we could stay, hike, and quite literally chill-out.