After leaving the hostel BA yesterday we went to the Bus terminal. We got there really early to make sure we didn´t miss the bus, and yet somehow we still almost missed it. We had been looking at our tickets, and decided we had to go to terminal 25 for our bus, we waited and waited there, but the bus didn´t come, and there didn´t seem to be anyone else really waiting there. We waited until about 10 minutes before our bus was to leave, and then I decided to have a closer look at the tickets, and realised it was well within the realms of possiblity that we may have misread the tickets and were in fact meant to be at gate 6. So hauling all our luggage we ran down to gate 6 and sure enough our bus was packing up and about to go. The main thing is we got on the bus.
Now this bus trip was the best I have ever had. The seats were like lounge chairs that reclined almost all the way back, and we had plenty of leg room. I slept better on the bus than I had been in the hostels. The trip went for 18 hours and I reckon I slept at least 9 of them. They put on 2 films. Both American dubbed in spanish with English subtitles. It was pretty funny hearing Adam Brody (Seth) with a deep Spanish voice. It was also cool because there was a huge thunderstorm for over half the journey, with heaps of spectacular lightning. I was also surprised by the country side, it could have easily been Australia, it´s so vast, and in parts extremely flat. The vast flat scrublands reminded me of the nullabor.
Anyway we finally got to Puerto Madryn and it took us a while to find our accomodation. Once we had we found that the place was run by a vague hippy, who between singing to her spanish reggae, told us that she didn´t have our booking, but had room for us anyway if we didn´t mind sleeping in a freshly waxed room that reeked of turpintine. We accepted figuring that at least we wouldn´t need to spend any money on alcohol to get intoxicated. We also booked our whale tour for tomorrow, which is pretty exciting. But apart from that there´s nothing to do here, it´s a pretty quiet town, and the beach has grey mud instead of sand. It will be good just to sit back and read a book though.
Catch ya later.
Dylan
Now this bus trip was the best I have ever had. The seats were like lounge chairs that reclined almost all the way back, and we had plenty of leg room. I slept better on the bus than I had been in the hostels. The trip went for 18 hours and I reckon I slept at least 9 of them. They put on 2 films. Both American dubbed in spanish with English subtitles. It was pretty funny hearing Adam Brody (Seth) with a deep Spanish voice. It was also cool because there was a huge thunderstorm for over half the journey, with heaps of spectacular lightning. I was also surprised by the country side, it could have easily been Australia, it´s so vast, and in parts extremely flat. The vast flat scrublands reminded me of the nullabor.
Anyway we finally got to Puerto Madryn and it took us a while to find our accomodation. Once we had we found that the place was run by a vague hippy, who between singing to her spanish reggae, told us that she didn´t have our booking, but had room for us anyway if we didn´t mind sleeping in a freshly waxed room that reeked of turpintine. We accepted figuring that at least we wouldn´t need to spend any money on alcohol to get intoxicated. We also booked our whale tour for tomorrow, which is pretty exciting. But apart from that there´s nothing to do here, it´s a pretty quiet town, and the beach has grey mud instead of sand. It will be good just to sit back and read a book though.
Catch ya later.
Dylan
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