February 15, 2024 • 45 mins
In this episode of the podcast, we are talking about our experience in Bariloche, a city located in Argentina's Patagonia region. We talk about our time spent in the city, its stunning alpine scenery, and its location in the Lake District near the Chilean border. We also discuss the city's climate and the surprising cold weather that we encountered during our visit. Despite the unseasonably cold weather, we still managed to get out for some adventures! Our adventures included a visit to the Cerro Campanario viewpoint, drives along the scenic Circuito Chico, and hiking excursions. We also mention some of the numerous restaurants and breweries that we enjoyed, including a high tea experience at Hotel Llao Llao. Despite some challenges, such as inclement weather and illness, we highly recommend Bariloche for its beauty, food, and family-friendly atmosphere, and can’t wait to go back! Enjoy!
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Hello, and welcome to the Worldwanders podcast, a proud part of the
wander Barn podcast network. I'm Ryan, I'm Amanda, and we're your hosts.
We're a traveling couple and digital nomad'staking you on our adventures as we
explore locations, destinations and careers.Enjoy the show. Hello everyone, and
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welcome back to the show. We'rereally excited that you're back joining us on
this Argentinian adventure. So today weare talking about barri Loche. On the
last episode, if you haven't listenedto you yet, you can go back
and check out. But we talkedabout the planning for a trip, the
reasons behind it, and a littlebit about our first impressions and so now
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we are diving in. Yeah,So where we left off last time was
arriving in barri Loch and being veryimpressed and stunned by the views. And
like we'd said, we'd been toBaro Loche one time for a couple of
nights back in our big backpacking tripin twenty fourteen, so it'd been you
know, nine years, almost tenyears since we'd been there, so a
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long time since we had been toBaroloch. Even looked at our photos of
Barriloce, and so it felt kindof new, Like it was kind of
like returning to a place we knewa little bit, but a lot of
it felt very new, and wejust had amazing first impressions. But before
we dive into what our experience waslike, let's just talk a little bit
about Barrioloche for those of you thatdon't know anything about this city. So
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it's officially known as San Carlos deBaroloce, and it's a city in the
province of Rio Nagro in Argentina,and it's located in the foothills of the
Andes on the southern shores of Bearwith me, So I don't butcher the
name of this lakes. I thinkit's pronounced Nahuel WAPPI. What do you
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think. I think that's a goodshot, Nahuel Huapi. I don't know
if we're pronouncing the age or not. And it's a big lake. It's
so big that on the windiest days, like we actually had waves. It's
huge. So it's not just likea little Chickatito lago. It's like her
Lago Chickatito. It's like a biglake and it kind of the town is
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located on kind of one part ofthe lake, and this area is really
well known for its stunning alpine scenery. It is in Patagonia, but it's
in the Lake district of Patagonia,and it's very very close to the Chilean
border, so when you look atit on a map, you can see
Chile quite close. And it's nota very big town. The population's around
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a little over one hundred and thirtyfive thousand people, as per the Internet
tells us. And that feels aboutright. And you know, it feels
like it's got a really great blendof locals as well as you know,
expats and people from other countries.Our airbnb hosts was actually British married to
a local Argentinian woman, and soyou experience a lot of people from other
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countries, which is really cool.And so let's talk about climate. I
feel like this is another important partof Baro Looche. So when people think
Argentina, I think they think generallywarm. Well, I think it's a
big ski destination, so I thinkskiing might be more primary than summertime hiking.
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It's interesting though, because so spoileralert, it was very cold while
we were there. Unexpectedly cold,and I told a couple of friends from
home and they were like, Idon't know if this is dumb, but
I didn't really think that Argentina gotthat cold, although obviously they have,
you know, Patagonia, ushwaya youknow, bottom of the world. It's
like going down to Antarctica, likeobviously there's going to be winter there,
but Baroloche experiences. According to theInternet, temperate climates, summers are December
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to February. Those are ideal timesfor outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking,
wind surfing, exploring the lakes,that type of thing. And then winter
June to August is cold and snowyand it's no for like you said,
skiing snowboarding. And they actually havea mountain called Serol that is famous for
skiing and snowboarding. It seems likemaybe for Argentinians barrelau Chase more of like
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a go to winter spot, andinternationally it's a bit more of a go
to summer spot. It seems likein the summer Argentinians want to be like
at the beach marda Plata. Whatdo I Brazil, Yeah, for sure,
And I think one thing that's reallygreat if you're like a digital nomad,
or you know somebody who is locationindependent and you're looking for a say
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you're from Canada or northern US andyou're looking for a winter destination to go
to. I mean, Argentina isreally awesome because their seasons obviously are opposite
of ours, and so we meta lot of people who were like summarine
in Argentina. But if you arekind of noting or remembering that we went
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in November, that is right beforesummer, I do not feel like we
got springtime temperature. But that wasthe plan, was to kind of go
in one of the shoulder seasons becausewe thought it would be a little less
busy, it'd be a little lessexpensive. That time of year worked really
well for us as well for traveling, and so that's why we chose that
time. We hit an unexpectedly orunseasonably cold November while we were there,
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so I feel like we got likea little more winter than springtime temperatures.
But maybe my idea of springtime isjust totally off. From Levia, Mexico
for so long now, Yeah,it seemed like everyone we talked to who
was from there was kind of like, oh, November's normally quite windy,
you know, a bit of amix up and down temperature wise, but
this year has been like really cold. Yeah, I mean to give you
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guys an idea. We were therefor three weeks. I think we got
there November third or fourth, andwe left the twenty second, I think.
So we had a good three weeksthere. And when we got there,
we arrived on probably the most beautifulor maybe second most beautiful day we
had. I think it was somewherebetween eighteen and twenty degrees celsius, which
is amazing. Sun was shining supernice, like just you know, a
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breeze you just need kind of likea sweater or a light jacket that type
of thing, especially in the evening. And we had one other day that
was that warm, and then therest were very cold, and so what
we kind of planned for was likehighs of fifteen during the day, which
seems very springtime to me. Butsome days with the wind, it was
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like two degrees, so that's likevery different. And it actually snowed twice,
so our daughter got to experience herfirst two snowfalls, which she seemed
to not be a big fan,but maybe that's because we did not have
a snowsuit for her because we plannedfor spring. Yeah, she also didn't
really seem to like getting bundled upin cold weather gear in general, So
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yeah, I don't know. MaybeI mean it's funny because we're a Canadian,
but we've been parenting in Mexico theentire time we've had a child,
so we haven't had to do thislike bundle the kid up to get out
the door, or rush them tothe car seat without their you know,
big jackets on because that's not safe, and then somehow get them dressed without
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having them freeze before you go anddo something. But I felt like it
was a lot of effort to eatout the door. It was like,
Okay, we got to put yourlike your normal clothes on, and it's
like, okay, we gotta getyour socks on, we gotta get your
shoes on, we gotta get yourjacket on, we gotta get your hat
on. Okay, now you gotto get in the stroller. And she's
a toddler, so all of thatrequires negotiation. And then we go outside
and we play for like ten minutes, and then she wanted to come inside
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because she was freeo free, Soit was a bit much I think the
other thing to add to our climateexperience was that we all got a little
bit sick, well quite a bitsick, so we spent a good amount
of the month battling colds, whichwas a little bit challenging on top of
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also dealing with some unseasonably cold weather. I think had we not all gone
through the same whatever we got viciouscolds, we probably would have pushed through
and done a few more things,which we'll talk about right away here what
we actually did do, what wedidn't get a chance to do, that's
recommended, et cetera, et cetera. But there was just some days where
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it was like, it's way toocold to like, you know, take
our daughter out when she's you know, sniffling and coffee coffee, or you
know, we don't feel well,so we don't want to really push through
in the cold or the rain orwhatever whatever. So that was a little
bit challenging. But that's all apart of travel. And I think that
while the trip was not exactly whatwe expected, we still made the best
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out of it and we still hada really great time, which we'll talk
about overall impressions at the end.But the spoilers that we still love Baroloche.
It's definitely on our list to returnto, hopefully in the next couple
of years. But why don't wedive into the things that we did do
what we did get a chance toexperience, and then we can talk about
some of the other recommendations for anyoneplanning a trip there. Yeah, and
just really quick on kind of settingthe stage for barri Looche. I think
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we talked a tiny bit about this. I think it's technically people consider it
Patagonia, right, Yeah, northernPatagonia, but it's like quite a ways
up, so not maybe like halfwayif you are looking on a map at
Argentina and Berlochi is very well connected, reasonably well connected by air, so
I think most people going there willfly there unless you're on like a really
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big road trip. Outside of twomonths of the year, you can fly
there from Santiago. Can't do it, November, can't do it. In
April, you can fly there fromBuenotes. You can fly there for most
principal cities in Argentina and even SouthPaulo. I think not all year,
but like some parts of the yearhas flights from salth Paulo direct to Baroloche.
So it's kind of surprised me whenwe landed actually, I was like,
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oh, this airport's kind of biggerthan I would have thought. Yeah,
for a city of like one hundredand thirty five thousand. It's kind
of funny because we live in youguys know, Cadetro, Mexico. We
have an international airport here, butwhich in it services what a city of
one point five to two million significantlysmaller, I'm pretty sure, much smaller.
Maybe not smaller in terms of likeair t traffic, but the actual
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buildings that comprise the airport probably halfthe size. Yeah. I mean,
we'd have to do some actual researchon that, but it felt significantly smaller.
Yes, Okay, so let's getinto what we did. So maybe
another point that we can add tothis is one of the things that we
decided to do when we got thereis we rented a car. So originally
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we were just going to rent acar for like a small period of the
time that we were there, butwe decided since the airport is like thirty
minutes from you know, the citycenter and from the town we were staying
in and stuff like that, thatwe would, and the cost was very
affordable. We decided to just rentit the whole time. We thought that
would be the most convenient given theweather that we experienced. I'm really glad
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we had a car because some dayswalking like twenty minutes just to get food
felt like very, very cold,and so we were happy to have that,
especially during times of sickness. Andit seemed like Uber was kind of
unreliable. Yeah, Uber was unreliable. Rappie was also unreliable, so ordering
food in was a bit unreliable.So it was really really nice to be
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able to have our own mode oftransportation and stuff like that. And so
that's just a little bit of anaddition and a pro tip with this.
The first time we were there,we obviously didn't have a car. We
were major, major backpackers and stuff, so we just got around via bus
and walking. But I think havinga car made things significantly more convenient for
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the experience we wanted to have.And so one of the first things that
we did, and one of thethings that is on kind of all of
the lists of top things to doin bear Loche, which this is something
we would highly recommend, is calledcerquito Chico, and this is a scenic
driving route that loops you through someof the most picturesque parts of this area.
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You get panoramic views of the lakes, the mountains, the forests.
You could have drive past a hotelJaujao, which we'll talk about as well,
as well as Colonia Suisa, andthere's just a lot of different viewpoints
you can stop at. So it'sreally nice to be able to have some
time on the drive to just stopand take photos. And so I think
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we actually ended up driving this maybea couple times. We did the loop
fully. One time it was prettyrainy the day we went, but it
was still amazing, super beautiful,and then we did parts of the loop
other times as we were visiting variousdifferent places, which we'll kind of tell
you more about as we go.So that was the first thing that we
did that was really awesome. Yeah. Yeah, like you said, it's
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I think a really cool thing todo. Right at the start. You
can do it by tour. Youcan also obviously just drive it if you
have a car. But this roadis so it kind of looks like a
last set or something. One roadout of Barrel Chain and you do a
circuit that connects back to the roadand comes back jumping off point for a
ton of different hikes, a tonof different activities. Lots of restaurants are
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out there. We'll talk more aboutlike places to go to do. But
one of the kind of main attractionsin barreloaud Chase the brewery scene, and
on this route lots of different reallywell known breweries. You could go have
a nice day of the driving wouldget a little bit shaky by the end
of it. You can go tolots of different breweries and lots of places
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will mark themselves like in their namethey'll put like eighteen point two or eleven
point one to mark the kilometer they'reat along Cerquito Chico. So, yeah,
beautiful road, something really awesome todo at the start because it kind
of like sets the stage for otherthings. And then this is on this
route, tons of different hikes andspots to stop and things to do.
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Yeah. So one of the otherthings that we did was we did go
hiking. We got a couple ofhikes in one kind of main hike.
We did attempt to go hiking afew more times, but unfortunately whether did
not permit us to do it andthen sickness as well. We had planned
to hike I think, as manydays as we could, and we did
not get much. And so I'mnot going to name any particular hikes because
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we didn't get to do anything thatwas super super out of this world.
But honestly, it's so beautiful therethat I think any hikes you do,
short or long are going to beamazing. So just look up on all
trails or just google hiking bear Lochand look at stuff depending on your level,
and you know how long you wantto go far or how far you
want to go for We have evena friend who was there after us who
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got significantly better weather, and heeven did like a two day hike where
he slept overnight in like a littlecabin and stuff that you can rent.
So there's lots of opportunities for hikingthere. And then the other thing that
I would say that you definitely needto do when you're in Barriloche is go
up one of the seros. Soa sero is a viewpoint. The one
that is the most popular is SeroOtto. Unfortunately, Sero Otto has closed
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the entire month of November for Idon't know yearly maintenance or something like that.
So we were not able to dothat one, but we did get
to go Saro Campinario, which hasa chairlift, which our daughter did not
like. She kept saying no,no, no, no, no.
Even looking at the photos now she'slike, no, no, she does
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not like it. But she didgreat, no crying up or down.
I think maybe just a little bitnew and scary for her. But you
take a chairlift up to the viewpoint. There's like a little walk that you
can do just to get the differentangles, beautiful views from all directions.
You get stunning mountain ranges, youget amazing shots of the lake. There's
also a little cafe that you cansit up and just have, you know,
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beautiful kind of panoramic views. Sodespite the fact that we didn't get
to go up Saro Otto and Ican't compare it because we didn't get to
do it, I really liked SoeroCampinario. And I think probably during busy
season it's probably less busy and I'mgonna say maybe less expensive, but I
don't know for sure. So youcan just do your research and see which
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one you want to do, andthen the other option that you have for
Saro's is Serro Cattral, which Imentioned before, is this ski hill.
Ryan really wanted to go because therewas snow up there, but we ended
up not going just because it seemedlike it'd be very very cold. But
this is the place where you cango if you want to ski. So
if you're in there in the winter, you'll probably go up to the ski
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hill. If you're there in thesummer, it seems like there's some fantastic
hiking to do up there, butI can only imagine that the viewpoints are
incredible from up there. But regardlessof what you choose to do, this
was one of my favorite things wedid. It was an incredible day,
incredible views. I would really recommendget up high there. It's like being
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able to see all of the viewsis just amazing. Yeah. Yeah,
and like you said, it was, I think we're all kind of surprised
you went and we're like, oh, there's no line, just got right
on, went up. There's likethese amount of people up top, but
not crazy, so especially if there'slike the most popular one was open,
probably wouldn't be too bad. Althoughyou kind of need to want to certain
things in and around Barrelow chair Worthkind of timing around too, whereas since
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a bunch of tour buses with shortplaces like nine am or whatever time,
so those things happen, Yeah,for sure. Another thing that we did
that was really fun was we wentto Hotel Jaujoo. It looks like if
you speak Spanish, it looks likeHotel Yao Yo. It's like double L.
It's on the Cerquito Chico. LikeI mentioned before, it's like this
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really famous hotel. If you guysare like no candidate at all, it
kind of gaves me like bamph likethe Fairmont bamf Springs architect architecturally, but
no, kind of like prestigious,you know, old school hotel in the
mountains. Yeah for sure. Andso something that's really popular to do in
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this area is to go for hightea, except high tea. So we
went for high tea at six pm. To me, that is not when
you have tea. But I'm notArgentinian and I prefer to eat at much
different hours than the Argentinians do.But I think you can get various different
ways. But one of the thingsthat is quite common here you mentioned the
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breweries, is going for tea andso I feel like going somewhere for tea,
I would suggest while you're there.And we went to Hotel Jaujao.
We felt fortunate enough to get areservation there and it was really beautiful.
I feel like it was a niceexperience. It's a bit expensive there,
and it was a lot of likepastries. There wasn't a lot of substantial
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food, but the tea was nice, the views were great, it was
very cozy, you know, niceservice experience. Obviously, it's beautiful just
going out that way. You getpart of the you drive like part of
the loop to get there, andthen you can kind of walk around the
hotel a little bit, which isreally nice. The grounds are beautiful,
beautiful views, like I said,and yeah, this is just kind of
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like an iconic experience I think tohave while you're there. Yeah, and
so they do take reservations, andit could be worth checking, especially if
you're going in like high season,to deserve it in advance and maybe you'll
get a you know, a timecloser to to the afternoon time. But
really cool experience and also just finebecause it's like it gives you the you
know, the access to go intopark, to walk around the hotel beautiful
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views. So definitely that's one ofthose things everyone will tell you to do,
and I think it's definitely worth doing. Yeah, for sure. I
would say also too if you justwant to go to Hotel Jaja for like
a different meal, because you canalso book. They have a bunch of
restaurants you could do like breakfast,lunch, dinner there. If you didn't
want to do tea. There's alot of little cute kind of tea shops
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along the Cerquito that you could alsodo tea at if that was something you
wanted to do. So the nextthing we did, which I feel like
this wasn't like my favorite thing wedid, but it was still nice was
Colonia Suisa. This is on theCerquito Chico as well, and this is
like this little Swiss colony and yougo there and it's like little Switzerland,
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which is so interesting and also soodd because it's just kind of in the
middle of nowhere. But you gowhen they offer like fondue and chocolate,
and yeah, it's got like everythingkind of that you would imagine in Switzerland.
The houses are built like Switzerland,et cetera, et cetera. Yeah,
and it seemed like, again,we were there shoulder season, so
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I imagine it struck me as likea place where if you were there and
like, you know, the heartof summer, there'd be people on bike
trips and hiking trips and campers andwe were there as kind of dead because
it's right after a storm. Butlook like there's kind of a lot of
the popular breweries had things there,food trucks. So I don't think it
would be like at the top ofmy like you must do this thing,
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but definitely on the list, yeah, for sure. On the other side
of that, something that I feellike is definitely on the top of my
I would highly recommend list is theRuta Corenta or Route forty from Barre Looche
to San Martin de los Endes.And this says the like seven La it's
like the famous like seven Lakes route. So I'm sure you can do tours
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of this, but I would reallyrecommend renting a car if you can swing
it. It is how many hoursit was like three hours by car two
hours hours just the driving part ofit. Yeah, and there's like a
bazillion viewpoints, so basically to planthis trip, so we knew we wanted
to go and spend one night inSant Martin de los Sene's, which was
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really really nice because then we didn'thave to like rush there rush back.
I basically put into chat GPT,like we're doing this route, like where
are the best places to stop?And it gave me like twenty viewpoints,
and so then I just went throughthem and looked at them on my map
and kind of mapped out a bunchof different places to stop. So we
had a ton of viewpoints to stopat both there and back, and Sant
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Martin de los Sende's is really cuteand we had an amazing meal there.
Yeah. Yeah, it's kind oflike a mini barrel in some ways,
right on a lake, beautiful views. Seems like there'd be lots of good
hiking out of there. Also wassurprised to find out they have an airport
and so that you can actually flyfrom Samartine to Buenos Aires if you want
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to. But yeah, the driver'sreally cool, a view points really cool.
We ended up getting there and beingin some of the strongest wind wind
we've ever experienced in our lives.Like remember, so we were there with
our friend Nathan from fruity flash Packerand the three of us that actually met
in Manila. And while we werein Manila, there was a typhoon that
came through, and so that wasthe only thing I could compare it to.
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It was like, this literally isas strong as the typhoon winds that
we experienced. I think it mighthave been stronger. Like we walked from
our hotel down to the lake andwe stopped, we got chocolate and we
got like hot chocolate because it wasstill cold, and we get down and
it's just like insane, like iflike loose stroller was like trying to control
itself because it's just so windy.It was really really wild. So the
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day we went, we stopped ata couple of viewpoints, but we had
like pretty off and on, likerainy, not the nicest weather. It
was really windy when we got there. But the next day we woke up
and you know, we went forbreakfast and we checked out a viewpoint that
was in Sant Martino, Los andAndy's and it was beautiful. We had
such a beautiful day and so drivingback we stopped at a few more spots,
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which was really really nice. Butthe views are just incredible and a
lot of places that we stopped atreminded me very much of the Pacific Northwest.
It was giving me heavy like Oregon, Seattle, Washington, like British
Columbia type vibes. The nature isjust absolutely stunning. All the lakes are
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beautiful, like everything's just pretty welltaken care of there. You know,
there isn't like a lot of pollution, and it's just an incredible, incredible
experience to have. Yeah. Andthe place that you can stop at about
halfway or can't stop at the city'scalled Via Angostura, which I think if
we were doing this and we werejust like, hey, we're going two
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weeks kind of basing ourselves out ofbarolochap but we're not working, we're not
doing the nomad thing, I thinkI'll probably try to stay there. Maybe
you try to stay and send Martineand like mix it around a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, I thinkone of the maybe biggest bummers of
the trip was that we didn't haveamazing, well even good weather, and
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so we had planned to hike,like I said, and so I think
we'd wanted to kind of do youknow, maybe a couple of small hikes
on our way up and then acouple on our way down, and there's
plenty. There's plenty for all differentlevels. There was lots that we're going
to be very you know, familyfriendly with lou and stuff like that,
and the weather just was not reallycooperative for that unfortunately. So yeah,
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I feel like I could see usgoing back and just making up for all
the hiking that we didn't get todo this time around. Definitely. So
that's kind of our list of whatwe did that we really enjoyed. Outside
of we'll talk about just walking aroundthe center, and we'll talk about food
because that was a huge part ofit. But one other thing that I
want to mention that we really wantedto do but unfortunately it just did not
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work out with schedules and climate andstuff like that, was there's a boat
trip that you can take that goesfrom this port that's really close to Hotel
Jaujao and it takes you to IsleVictoria and Boss Gayda ad Ayanes probably butchering
that word as well. And thisis probably one of the more popular tourist
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things to do. I don't knowif you can do this on your own
or not. We were going tojust take the boat tour and kind of
do that. But yeah, Ithink just with work and sickness and whether
it just didn't work. So we'vegot something to do next time, but
just something to check out if thatseems like your vibe and something that you
want to do. Definitely like apopular thing that many many people recommend,
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so yeah, we'll just add thatto the list. Yeah, I think
there are a couple hikes you cando from closer to via Anglostuda to get
to Bosque at Ayanez, but obviouslyit's a VICTII. I think it seems
like there's like two tour companies.If you know someone there with a boat,
I guess they could take you,but it seems like you've got to
be on a tour to get tothe island for the most part. Yeah,
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for sure. And so one ofthe things we haven't talked about is
the town itself. The town itselfis super super cute. It's full of
a lot of local shops, restaurants, and chocolate stores. Barri Loche is
famous for chocolate, which who's goingto complain about that? Not me?
So there's many many chocolate shops thatyou can visit, but I want to
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give a shout out to our favorite, which is Rapanui. Probably most people
who have been to barri Loche willtell you to go to Rapanui. Rapanui
is awesome. They have amazing chocolateand also you go in this this shop
that looks like a little chocolate shopand it just keeps going, like you
go through and you're like, oh, there's a restaurant here, and then
you keep going and you're like,there's there's a skating rink back here,
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Like what is happening in this store? So not only do they have quality
chocolate, but they have skating ifthat's your thing, if you have a
toddler like us. Lou really reallyliked watching the people skating, So I
definitely would recommend going to Rapanui.You definitely have have to have some chocolate
while you're in Barreloche though, It'sjust one of the things that you have
to do. Yeah, it's kindof funny Repnui so it's like famous baroloache
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place. We went a couple timeswhen we got there. We went maybe
a day or two after and boughtlike a hot chocolate then because that was
kind of very go to nightly routinewas having hot chocolate. And then so
then when we went to leave inthe airport, just before you go see
the security, there's another revenui thereand we'd been like, oh, should
we take some home? I don'tknow, and then we're in their parts
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We're like, okay, well weshould go, like right now. So
before we went to security, wentbought revenue, go through security. There's
another ravenue yeah, on the otherside of security, and then we're like,
okay, well, I guess wecould have got it there, but
we got some. And then flyto Buenos Aires getary and b pull up
ober Eats and we're like, oh, this revenue we're here too. It's
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like it's like the gifts they mostlykept on giving to experience. But you
should go while you're there because it'slike the where it started spot And I
mean, there's no skating rink atthe one in Buenos Aires, so at
least not that we know, notthat we know of. Okay. So
one of the other great things todo in Bariloche is to eat, and
there seems to be kind of twocategories of foods that are really common there.
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One is burgers. There are aton of burger restaurants in Baroloche.
Our friend Nathan, who Ryan mentionedthat we were with, kind of made
his mission to find the best lamburgerin Baroloche, so he was trying all
the burger places. And then there'sa lot of breweries, like Ryan said,
So we'll talk a little bit aboutbreweries in a moment, but I
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just want to name a couple ofrestaurants that we really liked. So top
of the list, top, top, top the list is all too El
Fuego. This is an amazing steakrestaurant. It was recommended by some friends
of ours and also by our Airbnbhost. They at the time of us
going slash the time of recording,they did not take reservations and they opened
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at seven thirty and they were fullby like seven fifty, So we would
go at like seven twenty five,and since we had a toddler, we're
standing out in the cold. They'dusually just seen us, which was amazing.
So go when they open unless youwant to have a pretty big weight.
It's a pretty small restaurant, orat least the one in the historic
center is. They also have oneat the train station, but the one
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in the center is pretty small,so they fill up pretty fast, like
I said, So that's definitely numberone, especially for steak. Second for
steak would be Carnero. I feellike this was a close second for me.
It was really really good. Theydo take reservations, so I would
make a reservation there because they alsofill up quite quick. And then oh
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bejan Nagra has like probably the bestempanadas we ate on our whole trip,
just very very good, very verygood and panadas. So I feel like
we kind of had this rotation oflike eating breakfast at home over han Nagra
for lunch, and then rotating likecan we go to Alto al Fuego again?
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Is it open? Yeah? Weended up going. How long were
we there for? Three weeks?Basically? Yeah, three weeks almost three
weeks. Ended up going to altel Fego three times, which honestly,
looking back on it, I'm likewe should have gone at least we didn't
go for the first time into likea weekend of the trip basically yeah,
because I think we waited until Nathangot there to go, and he didn't
get there till like a week afterus, which was just a poor decision
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by us. We've probably just beengoing right away. He probably went three
times in like eleven days or something, but yeah, that was great.
And then yeah, panadas of Argentinaif you're not familiar, and panadas are
kind of classic in many different placesof Latin America, but quick distinct,
so like Mexican and panadas are kindof different than like Colombian and panadas and
Venezuela and panadas, and then Argentinianand panadas almost a little bit more like
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calzone styles. They use glutenous spreadaround kind of like pizza crust and some
stuff and with all sorts of differentstuff. So Argentina has awesome and panadas
well, we had Negata had reallygood bananas. Yeah. Another place that
we frequently went, which this kindof gets into the brewery category of things,
is a place called Manuche, whichwas also recommended to us by friends
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who had been there and our Airbnbhost, so you know it's good.
There is a couple locations, onein the historic center and then one kind
of outside of the center as well. We visited both both were nice.
Manush was probably my favorite brewery thatwe went to, and we ate at
Manusia a number of times as well. Yeah, you don't really drink beer.
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I'm not I like beer, butI'm not a beer connoisseewer. But
it had good beer. And thenI think the thing that stood out was
the food. Like all the otherbirders you went too had like okay food,
yeah, but this one had reallygood food and like especially for the
season, Like there was this deliciouspop pie, burgers, good like comfort
warm food. Yeah, for sure. We got there and I started feeling
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sick first, and I was like, I really just want like soup.
My throat was hurting and my earswere kind of hurting. It was not
cold compared to what we experienced there, but it felt quite cold, especially
coming like from Mexico through Chile,and I was like, oh, I
just want something yeah, warm andsoft and soup like. And they had
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this chicken pop pie which was justamazing. It came with this like fluffy
crust on top of it, andyou break open the crust and it just
like gushes out heat. And itwas just this delightful experience for a cool
day. Maybe not what you wantif you go in the summer, because
it's quite hearty, it's quite warm, but you know, I tried other
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things there as well, they alsohad great burgers, salads, French fries,
like everything we had was really yummy, So I would definitely recommend Manouche.
And then continuing on our brewery experience, we also went to one called
Kunsmann, one called Berlina, andone called Patagonia, which if you do
any research on like surveys areas inthis area, Patagonia will definitely come up.
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So why don't you talk us throughthose three? Yeah, so Patagonia
is definitely the most famous of themall. I'm not sure about the timing
of like which one started first andwho kind of makes the claim to being
like the brewery, but Patagonia isfamous and it's also a really really popular
beer company. We hadn't been toArgentina in quite a while, so we
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didn't really know. But if yougo to a grocery store in Buenosides,
you'll see Patagonia beer, and soI think it's Patagonia. Twenty four point
something is the kilometer marker, Soit's the furthest of all the ones we
mentioned, like Manooche has in thecity and then it's just right out like
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maybe kilometer one or two, andthen they kind of just I think Koonsman
is the next close. Then Berlina, Patagonia is probably like thirty minutes driving,
and it's also the busiest, sowe didn't know you need a reservation.
Fortunately, because of Low's like napschedule, we showed up like right
when they opened, and so wewere able to get a table. But
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I think we were quite lucky becausewithin what forty five minutes, I think
the whole place was full, whichit's huge. This one, I would
say it was the most beautiful forsure. It like overlooks a lake.
Just the interior studying. They've donea really really great job with the location,
but probably the worst food. Yes, yeah, totally worth going.
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You should make a reservation, getout there on a sunny day. I
don't think, like the views areamazing, just really cool vibe to the
building's beautiful and they have put allthese cool chairs outside, So totally worth
going to. Beers are really goodfood risks soso, so maybe don't plan
to eat there or just have asnack, like get some French fries or
something like that. Yeah, andthen but they don't have ketchup. They're
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like, do you want barbecue sauce? I was like I'm sorry, what
no, I want ketchup. Theother kind of most popular beer is called
Blessed. You'll find that beer otherplaces in the country. They have one
or two locations. We actually gotsome food there one time, felt like
it was kind of mediocre. Soyeah, I would not put a blest
on my list of recommendations for placesto go. But I think the thing
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that's great is you can go toother great restaurants and you can get the
beer. So Blessed beer is definitelya recommendation. But Koonzman and Berlina,
like we said, we're a littlecloser, you know, kind of more
fifteen to twenty minute drives from maybeten to twenty minute drives from the city.
Both were really nice. I thinkwe really liked Berlina because they had
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this beautiful back patio space and wehappened to go on a pretty nice day
and they had a playground in theback, so it was very like family
child friendly. There was another littlegirl who was about lose age and they
you know, had a stand offover a little slide they were playing on.
But you know, that was areally nice experience I think for us
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having a toddler. Yeah, andKunzman has a really really nice view.
It's like right on the there's aroad between it and the lake. But
famous other view. Definitely noticed,like the prices there were a little bit
more elevated. Our meal was good, not crazy good, but totally worth
a stop at. And I thinkit's pretty pretty famous as the spot to
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go. Yeah, for sure.I think like marking all of them and
just knowing like when they open andclose and stuff. And then if you're
doing like Cerquito Chico or you're goingout to hike, these are really great
spots to stop like before or afterhikes or your sightseeing and things like that.
Berlina and Kunzman we didn't need anyreservations, so Patagonia is the only
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one. It just is like themost famous. It has just like a
whole setup and this whole walk thatyou need to do to get down to
it and stuff. But like wesaid, it was definitely worth it.
Two other noteworthy restaurants that we willmention. One is Anima. Anima is
like out on the loop. Itwas close to Berlina, not too far
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from there, maybe five or tenminutes driving. This is like a tiny
little restaurant. They had what ninetables. You definitely need e I it's
like a tiny little house with ithas tables in it. Hard to get
a reservation, hard to get areservation. Thankfully, we were traveling with
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a food blogger, so he wasable to get us in for a reservation
and they had it was an incredibleexperience. They had incredible food. I
think one of the main challenges thatwe had, maybe just in general with
Argentina, was that everything happens reallylate, and we have a toddler who
coast to bed around eight, butmost restaurants we were going to didn't even
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open till eight, so a lotof nights she wasn't going to bed till
like ten, so her schedule wasreally thrown off. So that was a
particular night where I think we gota reservation at like nine, eight thirty.
I was gonna say seven forty five. No, because we were there
at midnight. No, it wasno, we're such grandparents, such old
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people. No, we weren't therethat late. I think we got home
at like ten thirty or something oreleven. Anyways, we had a later
reservation, maybe it was like eightthirty or eight forty five, and so
she was like exhausted when we gotthere, so that's a bit challenging.
But I think this is like aplace that kind of pre child I would
have like absolutely adored this experience.I still really enjoyed it. The food
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was really good, but between beingtired myself and then having like a kind
of tired, cranky toddler, Ifeel like that takes away from it.
But Anima, I would definitely recommendtry to get a reservation early. And
the other one is me Piace.I think this is right in the kind
of near the center. They havegreat breakfast and great lunches. This was
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definitely a go to lunch spot forus, and they have really really ammy
cookies. Yeah, more of likea cafe vibe, but yeah, for
the good cookies. Seemed to bequite popular with more of like a local
crowd and wasn't kind of down inthe touristic zone. Yeah. And then
the last two places we want tomention are coffee shops. Doble Serro was
like our daily go to, amazingcoffee. I think one of the great
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things about being in Argentina if you'rea coffee drinker is that the cafes just
do it well. They do itright, They take their time, incredible
lattes, great hot chocolates there.They had like some food that was good,
but I feel like really not whatI would write home about, but
they had really great coffee. LikeI said, we went there almost every
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day just because it was kind ofon our walk into town and also cool
work set up too, like thatI winded work there one day. If
you need to like bust out yourlaptop for an afternoon, that's a good
spot to do it, yeah,for sure. And then the other place
we went to, which has likeyou know, full breakfast and even like
lunch options, and I think kindof has a side for dinner later on
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YEP, is called Malaysa. Malaisais in a different part of town,
but still kind of off the sortof city center. But what's great about
Malaysa is that they have an incredibleview of the lake and on a really
beautiful day you can sit outside.They've got picnic benches, they've got tables,
they've got kind of swinging chairs,and then the whole interior is just
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big glass windows. So we wouldgo there in the mornings. Some of
the mornings we hoped to be hiking, we would go and get coffee and
some snacks and stuff like that andjust look at the views. And it
was a really great way to kindof enjoy what Barilocha has to offer without
necessarily being able to be outside orbe hiking. So would definitely recommend that.
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Yeah, And I think that wasa really So it's beautiful. You
can sit outside great on a niceday, but I think for us like
the not so nice days, likethe windy days, the rainy days,
it was also just a way tofeel like we're inside. It's sess and
warm in here, but you havethis beautiful view, but you're still cozy.
So it was kind of like away to feel like, oh,
we're appreciating the beauty of this areawell being safely inside. Yeah, for
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sure. And so that kind ofconcludes the list. If anyone's been and
has anything to add to it,feel free to reach out to us,
but we'll make sure all of thisis on the show notes for you guys,
for anyone who's planning, But justknow that even if you hit janky
weather or you get sick in Barreloche, there are still plenty of things to
do and see, and if allof those spills there is really really great
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food. We eat lots of otherplaces that didn't make the list that we're
still really good, but those areour top spots, So why don't we
just wrap it up with kind ofoverall the impressions and final thoughts. Yeah,
so I think overall the vision protrip was We're going to get out
a couple times a week in themorning before starting work and hike and be
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it on weekends, and kind ofgot I've been unlucky with the weather and
then also being sick, so thatpart of it didn't work out as well,
but still really really enjoyed the trip. It was really nice, like
it's a good sized city, feltreally comfortable there as a parent, and
just lots of cool stuff to do. That food was really exceptional and just
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like everywhere you go you get areally awesome view. So it's definitely like
a touristic spot, but I thinkwhile worth going to, and especially if
you had like a bigger trip,could be a cool spot to like slow
down for a little bit. Butyeah, overall impressions were love to go
back. I think I found myselflooking at real estate listings afterwards, which
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is always like a good sign.Yeah, I feel the trip was like
challenging in many ways, with youknow, the weather, being sick,
all the things I've mentioned. Wedon't need to belabor those parts. But
at the same time, I feellike the same thing, like, I
want to go back, I wantto experience more. I feel like there
was things we didn't get to dothat we wanted to that I want to
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go back and do. And thenthe one final thing I'll say is that
I felt like it was just likea really like great destination with a toddler.
I felt like it was like aquite a family friendly destination outside of
maybe like the late starts for dinnerand stuff, but that's just Argentina in
general. That's just a cultural thing. But you know, I never felt
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unsafe walking around. I felt comfortabletaking lou out on my own. I
felt like she was welcome everywhere.There was playgrounds and many parts of the
city there was stuff for her todo, so and I felt like it
was just a really good sized cityfor what we were looking for. So
yeah, I feel like I wouldecho what you said, great spot.
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Would love to go back. Hopefullywe'll get to go back in the next
couple of years. Yes, definitely, and then I think we only other
thing I would add if you're thinkingof planning a trip there, I think
Berloichi is the place to be ifyou're looking for like a spot in Patagonia
to be a nomad. I thinkif you're just traveling, maybe like a
couple of nights there, a couplenights in Saint Martine, a couple nights
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in different cities, maybe camping somewherewould be the way I think about doing
it. Yeah, but if youare working, this is a great spot.
There's co working spaces which we didn'ttake advantage of because we had a
good Airbnb setup and the cafe likeRyan mentioned, but yeah, co working
spaces and stuff like that. Soif you are looking to base yourself there,
it's a great hub. And sonext time on the show we were
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going to talk about Buenos Aidis.So we will be back with our part
three and final part of our Argentinaseries in a couple of weeks. Thank
you guys so much for listening tothis. We hope you enjoyed it,
and we hope we hope it inspiresyou to maybe plan a trip to Barrilo
j because barely, which is incredible, just maybe don't go in November.
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Hello, and welcome to the Worldwanders podcast, a proud part of the
wander Barn podcast network. I'm Ryan, I'm Amanda, and we're your hosts.
We're a traveling couple and digital nomad'staking you on our adventures as we
explore locations, destinations and careers.Enjoy the show. Hello everyone, and
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welcome back to the show. We'rereally excited that you're back joining us on
this Argentinian adventure. So today weare talking about barri Loche. On the
last episode, if you haven't listenedto you yet, you can go back
and check out. But we talkedabout the planning for a trip, the
reasons behind it, and a littlebit about our first impressions and so now
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we are diving in. Yeah,So where we left off last time was
arriving in barri Loch and being veryimpressed and stunned by the views. And
like we'd said, we'd been toBaro Loche one time for a couple of
nights back in our big backpacking tripin twenty fourteen, so it'd been you
know, nine years, almost tenyears since we'd been there, so a
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long time since we had been toBaroloch. Even looked at our photos of
Barriloce, and so it felt kindof new, Like it was kind of
like returning to a place we knewa little bit, but a lot of
it felt very new, and wejust had amazing first impressions. But before
we dive into what our experience waslike, let's just talk a little bit
about Barrioloche for those of you thatdon't know anything about this city. So
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it's officially known as San Carlos deBaroloce, and it's a city in the
province of Rio Nagro in Argentina,and it's located in the foothills of the
Andes on the southern shores of Bearwith me, So I don't butcher the
name of this lakes. I thinkit's pronounced Nahuel WAPPI. What do you
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think. I think that's a goodshot, Nahuel Huapi. I don't know
if we're pronouncing the age or not. And it's a big lake. It's
so big that on the windiest days, like we actually had waves. It's
huge. So it's not just likea little Chickatito lago. It's like her
Lago Chickatito. It's like a biglake and it kind of the town is
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located on kind of one part ofthe lake, and this area is really
well known for its stunning alpine scenery. It is in Patagonia, but it's
in the Lake district of Patagonia,and it's very very close to the Chilean
border, so when you look atit on a map, you can see
Chile quite close. And it's nota very big town. The population's around
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a little over one hundred and thirtyfive thousand people, as per the Internet
tells us. And that feels aboutright. And you know, it feels
like it's got a really great blendof locals as well as you know,
expats and people from other countries.Our airbnb hosts was actually British married to
a local Argentinian woman, and soyou experience a lot of people from other
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countries, which is really cool.And so let's talk about climate. I
feel like this is another important partof Baro Looche. So when people think
Argentina, I think they think generallywarm. Well, I think it's a
big ski destination, so I thinkskiing might be more primary than summertime hiking.
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It's interesting though, because so spoileralert, it was very cold while
we were there. Unexpectedly cold,and I told a couple of friends from
home and they were like, Idon't know if this is dumb, but
I didn't really think that Argentina gotthat cold, although obviously they have,
you know, Patagonia, ushwaya youknow, bottom of the world. It's
like going down to Antarctica, likeobviously there's going to be winter there,
but Baroloche experiences. According to theInternet, temperate climates, summers are December
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to February. Those are ideal timesfor outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking,
wind surfing, exploring the lakes,that type of thing. And then winter
June to August is cold and snowyand it's no for like you said,
skiing snowboarding. And they actually havea mountain called Serol that is famous for
skiing and snowboarding. It seems likemaybe for Argentinians barrelau Chase more of like
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a go to winter spot, andinternationally it's a bit more of a go
to summer spot. It seems likein the summer Argentinians want to be like
at the beach marda Plata. Whatdo I Brazil, Yeah, for sure,
And I think one thing that's reallygreat if you're like a digital nomad,
or you know somebody who is locationindependent and you're looking for a say
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you're from Canada or northern US andyou're looking for a winter destination to go
to. I mean, Argentina isreally awesome because their seasons obviously are opposite
of ours, and so we meta lot of people who were like summarine
in Argentina. But if you arekind of noting or remembering that we went
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in November, that is right beforesummer, I do not feel like we
got springtime temperature. But that wasthe plan, was to kind of go
in one of the shoulder seasons becausewe thought it would be a little less
busy, it'd be a little lessexpensive. That time of year worked really
well for us as well for traveling, and so that's why we chose that
time. We hit an unexpectedly orunseasonably cold November while we were there,
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so I feel like we got likea little more winter than springtime temperatures.
But maybe my idea of springtime isjust totally off. From Levia, Mexico
for so long now, Yeah,it seemed like everyone we talked to who
was from there was kind of like, oh, November's normally quite windy,
you know, a bit of amix up and down temperature wise, but
this year has been like really cold. Yeah, I mean to give you
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guys an idea. We were therefor three weeks. I think we got
there November third or fourth, andwe left the twenty second, I think.
So we had a good three weeksthere. And when we got there,
we arrived on probably the most beautifulor maybe second most beautiful day we
had. I think it was somewherebetween eighteen and twenty degrees celsius, which
is amazing. Sun was shining supernice, like just you know, a
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breeze you just need kind of likea sweater or a light jacket that type
of thing, especially in the evening. And we had one other day that
was that warm, and then therest were very cold, and so what
we kind of planned for was likehighs of fifteen during the day, which
seems very springtime to me. Butsome days with the wind, it was
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like two degrees, so that's likevery different. And it actually snowed twice,
so our daughter got to experience herfirst two snowfalls, which she seemed
to not be a big fan,but maybe that's because we did not have
a snowsuit for her because we plannedfor spring. Yeah, she also didn't
really seem to like getting bundled upin cold weather gear in general, So
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yeah, I don't know. MaybeI mean it's funny because we're a Canadian,
but we've been parenting in Mexico theentire time we've had a child,
so we haven't had to do thislike bundle the kid up to get out
the door, or rush them tothe car seat without their you know,
big jackets on because that's not safe, and then somehow get them dressed without
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having them freeze before you go anddo something. But I felt like it
was a lot of effort to eatout the door. It was like,
Okay, we got to put yourlike your normal clothes on, and it's
like, okay, we gotta getyour socks on, we gotta get your
shoes on, we gotta get yourjacket on, we gotta get your hat
on. Okay, now you gotto get in the stroller. And she's
a toddler, so all of thatrequires negotiation. And then we go outside
and we play for like ten minutes, and then she wanted to come inside
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because she was freeo free, Soit was a bit much I think the
other thing to add to our climateexperience was that we all got a little
bit sick, well quite a bitsick, so we spent a good amount
of the month battling colds, whichwas a little bit challenging on top of
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also dealing with some unseasonably cold weather. I think had we not all gone
through the same whatever we got viciouscolds, we probably would have pushed through
and done a few more things,which we'll talk about right away here what
we actually did do, what wedidn't get a chance to do, that's
recommended, et cetera, et cetera. But there was just some days where
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it was like, it's way toocold to like, you know, take
our daughter out when she's you know, sniffling and coffee coffee, or you
know, we don't feel well,so we don't want to really push through
in the cold or the rain orwhatever whatever. So that was a little
bit challenging. But that's all apart of travel. And I think that
while the trip was not exactly whatwe expected, we still made the best
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out of it and we still hada really great time, which we'll talk
about overall impressions at the end.But the spoilers that we still love Baroloche.
It's definitely on our list to returnto, hopefully in the next couple
of years. But why don't wedive into the things that we did do
what we did get a chance toexperience, and then we can talk about
some of the other recommendations for anyoneplanning a trip there. Yeah, and
just really quick on kind of settingthe stage for barri Looche. I think
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we talked a tiny bit about this. I think it's technically people consider it
Patagonia, right, Yeah, northernPatagonia, but it's like quite a ways
up, so not maybe like halfwayif you are looking on a map at
Argentina and Berlochi is very well connected, reasonably well connected by air, so
I think most people going there willfly there unless you're on like a really
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big road trip. Outside of twomonths of the year, you can fly
there from Santiago. Can't do it, November, can't do it. In
April, you can fly there fromBuenotes. You can fly there for most
principal cities in Argentina and even SouthPaulo. I think not all year,
but like some parts of the yearhas flights from salth Paulo direct to Baroloche.
So it's kind of surprised me whenwe landed actually, I was like,
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oh, this airport's kind of biggerthan I would have thought. Yeah,
for a city of like one hundredand thirty five thousand. It's kind
of funny because we live in youguys know, Cadetro, Mexico. We
have an international airport here, butwhich in it services what a city of
one point five to two million significantlysmaller, I'm pretty sure, much smaller.
Maybe not smaller in terms of likeair t traffic, but the actual
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buildings that comprise the airport probably halfthe size. Yeah. I mean,
we'd have to do some actual researchon that, but it felt significantly smaller.
Yes, Okay, so let's getinto what we did. So maybe
another point that we can add tothis is one of the things that we
decided to do when we got thereis we rented a car. So originally
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we were just going to rent acar for like a small period of the
time that we were there, butwe decided since the airport is like thirty
minutes from you know, the citycenter and from the town we were staying
in and stuff like that, thatwe would, and the cost was very
affordable. We decided to just rentit the whole time. We thought that
would be the most convenient given theweather that we experienced. I'm really glad
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we had a car because some dayswalking like twenty minutes just to get food
felt like very, very cold,and so we were happy to have that,
especially during times of sickness. Andit seemed like Uber was kind of
unreliable. Yeah, Uber was unreliable. Rappie was also unreliable, so ordering
food in was a bit unreliable.So it was really really nice to be
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able to have our own mode oftransportation and stuff like that. And so
that's just a little bit of anaddition and a pro tip with this.
The first time we were there,we obviously didn't have a car. We
were major, major backpackers and stuff, so we just got around via bus
and walking. But I think havinga car made things significantly more convenient for
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the experience we wanted to have.And so one of the first things that
we did, and one of thethings that is on kind of all of
the lists of top things to doin bear Loche, which this is something
we would highly recommend, is calledcerquito Chico, and this is a scenic
driving route that loops you through someof the most picturesque parts of this area.
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You get panoramic views of the lakes, the mountains, the forests.
You could have drive past a hotelJaujao, which we'll talk about as well,
as well as Colonia Suisa, andthere's just a lot of different viewpoints
you can stop at. So it'sreally nice to be able to have some
time on the drive to just stopand take photos. And so I think
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we actually ended up driving this maybea couple times. We did the loop
fully. One time it was prettyrainy the day we went, but it
was still amazing, super beautiful,and then we did parts of the loop
other times as we were visiting variousdifferent places, which we'll kind of tell
you more about as we go.So that was the first thing that we
did that was really awesome. Yeah. Yeah, like you said, it's
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I think a really cool thing todo. Right at the start. You
can do it by tour. Youcan also obviously just drive it if you
have a car. But this roadis so it kind of looks like a
last set or something. One roadout of Barrel Chain and you do a
circuit that connects back to the roadand comes back jumping off point for a
ton of different hikes, a tonof different activities. Lots of restaurants are
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out there. We'll talk more aboutlike places to go to do. But
one of the kind of main attractionsin barreloaud Chase the brewery scene, and
on this route lots of different reallywell known breweries. You could go have
a nice day of the driving wouldget a little bit shaky by the end
of it. You can go tolots of different breweries and lots of places
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will mark themselves like in their namethey'll put like eighteen point two or eleven
point one to mark the kilometer they'reat along Cerquito Chico. So, yeah,
beautiful road, something really awesome todo at the start because it kind
of like sets the stage for otherthings. And then this is on this
route, tons of different hikes andspots to stop and things to do.
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Yeah. So one of the otherthings that we did was we did go
hiking. We got a couple ofhikes in one kind of main hike.
We did attempt to go hiking afew more times, but unfortunately whether did
not permit us to do it andthen sickness as well. We had planned
to hike I think, as manydays as we could, and we did
not get much. And so I'mnot going to name any particular hikes because
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we didn't get to do anything thatwas super super out of this world.
But honestly, it's so beautiful therethat I think any hikes you do,
short or long are going to beamazing. So just look up on all
trails or just google hiking bear Lochand look at stuff depending on your level,
and you know how long you wantto go far or how far you
want to go for We have evena friend who was there after us who
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got significantly better weather, and heeven did like a two day hike where
he slept overnight in like a littlecabin and stuff that you can rent.
So there's lots of opportunities for hikingthere. And then the other thing that
I would say that you definitely needto do when you're in Barriloche is go
up one of the seros. Soa sero is a viewpoint. The one
that is the most popular is SeroOtto. Unfortunately, Sero Otto has closed
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the entire month of November for Idon't know yearly maintenance or something like that.
So we were not able to dothat one, but we did get
to go Saro Campinario, which hasa chairlift, which our daughter did not
like. She kept saying no,no, no, no, no.
Even looking at the photos now she'slike, no, no, she does
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not like it. But she didgreat, no crying up or down.
I think maybe just a little bitnew and scary for her. But you
take a chairlift up to the viewpoint. There's like a little walk that you
can do just to get the differentangles, beautiful views from all directions.
You get stunning mountain ranges, youget amazing shots of the lake. There's
also a little cafe that you cansit up and just have, you know,
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beautiful kind of panoramic views. Sodespite the fact that we didn't get
to go up Saro Otto and Ican't compare it because we didn't get to
do it, I really liked SoeroCampinario. And I think probably during busy
season it's probably less busy and I'mgonna say maybe less expensive, but I
don't know for sure. So youcan just do your research and see which
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one you want to do, andthen the other option that you have for
Saro's is Serro Cattral, which Imentioned before, is this ski hill.
Ryan really wanted to go because therewas snow up there, but we ended
up not going just because it seemedlike it'd be very very cold. But
this is the place where you cango if you want to ski. So
if you're in there in the winter, you'll probably go up to the ski
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hill. If you're there in thesummer, it seems like there's some fantastic
hiking to do up there, butI can only imagine that the viewpoints are
incredible from up there. But regardlessof what you choose to do, this
was one of my favorite things wedid. It was an incredible day,
incredible views. I would really recommendget up high there. It's like being
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able to see all of the viewsis just amazing. Yeah. Yeah,
and like you said, it was, I think we're all kind of surprised
you went and we're like, oh, there's no line, just got right
on, went up. There's likethese amount of people up top, but
not crazy, so especially if there'slike the most popular one was open,
probably wouldn't be too bad. Althoughyou kind of need to want to certain
things in and around Barrelow chair Worthkind of timing around too, whereas since
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a bunch of tour buses with shortplaces like nine am or whatever time,
so those things happen, Yeah,for sure. Another thing that we did
that was really fun was we wentto Hotel Jaujoo. It looks like if
you speak Spanish, it looks likeHotel Yao Yo. It's like double L.
It's on the Cerquito Chico. LikeI mentioned before, it's like this
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really famous hotel. If you guysare like no candidate at all, it
kind of gaves me like bamph likethe Fairmont bamf Springs architect architecturally, but
no, kind of like prestigious,you know, old school hotel in the
mountains. Yeah for sure. Andso something that's really popular to do in
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this area is to go for hightea, except high tea. So we
went for high tea at six pm. To me, that is not when
you have tea. But I'm notArgentinian and I prefer to eat at much
different hours than the Argentinians do.But I think you can get various different
ways. But one of the thingsthat is quite common here you mentioned the
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breweries, is going for tea andso I feel like going somewhere for tea,
I would suggest while you're there.And we went to Hotel Jaujao.
We felt fortunate enough to get areservation there and it was really beautiful.
I feel like it was a niceexperience. It's a bit expensive there,
and it was a lot of likepastries. There wasn't a lot of substantial
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food, but the tea was nice, the views were great, it was
very cozy, you know, niceservice experience. Obviously, it's beautiful just
going out that way. You getpart of the you drive like part of
the loop to get there, andthen you can kind of walk around the
hotel a little bit, which isreally nice. The grounds are beautiful,
beautiful views, like I said,and yeah, this is just kind of
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like an iconic experience I think tohave while you're there. Yeah, and
so they do take reservations, andit could be worth checking, especially if
you're going in like high season,to deserve it in advance and maybe you'll
get a you know, a timecloser to to the afternoon time. But
really cool experience and also just finebecause it's like it gives you the you
know, the access to go intopark, to walk around the hotel beautiful
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views. So definitely that's one ofthose things everyone will tell you to do,
and I think it's definitely worth doing. Yeah, for sure. I
would say also too if you justwant to go to Hotel Jaja for like
a different meal, because you canalso book. They have a bunch of
restaurants you could do like breakfast,lunch, dinner there. If you didn't
want to do tea. There's alot of little cute kind of tea shops
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along the Cerquito that you could alsodo tea at if that was something you
wanted to do. So the nextthing we did, which I feel like
this wasn't like my favorite thing wedid, but it was still nice was
Colonia Suisa. This is on theCerquito Chico as well, and this is
like this little Swiss colony and yougo there and it's like little Switzerland,
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which is so interesting and also soodd because it's just kind of in the
middle of nowhere. But you gowhen they offer like fondue and chocolate,
and yeah, it's got like everythingkind of that you would imagine in Switzerland.
The houses are built like Switzerland,et cetera, et cetera. Yeah,
and it seemed like, again,we were there shoulder season, so
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I imagine it struck me as likea place where if you were there and
like, you know, the heartof summer, there'd be people on bike
trips and hiking trips and campers andwe were there as kind of dead because
it's right after a storm. Butlook like there's kind of a lot of
the popular breweries had things there,food trucks. So I don't think it
would be like at the top ofmy like you must do this thing,
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but definitely on the list, yeah, for sure. On the other side
of that, something that I feellike is definitely on the top of my
I would highly recommend list is theRuta Corenta or Route forty from Barre Looche
to San Martin de los Endes.And this says the like seven La it's
like the famous like seven Lakes route. So I'm sure you can do tours
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of this, but I would reallyrecommend renting a car if you can swing
it. It is how many hoursit was like three hours by car two
hours hours just the driving part ofit. Yeah, and there's like a
bazillion viewpoints, so basically to planthis trip, so we knew we wanted
to go and spend one night inSant Martin de los Sene's, which was
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really really nice because then we didn'thave to like rush there rush back.
I basically put into chat GPT,like we're doing this route, like where
are the best places to stop?And it gave me like twenty viewpoints,
and so then I just went throughthem and looked at them on my map
and kind of mapped out a bunchof different places to stop. So we
had a ton of viewpoints to stopat both there and back, and Sant
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Martin de los Sende's is really cuteand we had an amazing meal there.
Yeah. Yeah, it's kind oflike a mini barrel in some ways,
right on a lake, beautiful views. Seems like there'd be lots of good
hiking out of there. Also wassurprised to find out they have an airport
and so that you can actually flyfrom Samartine to Buenos Aires if you want
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to. But yeah, the driver'sreally cool, a view points really cool.
We ended up getting there and beingin some of the strongest wind wind
we've ever experienced in our lives.Like remember, so we were there with
our friend Nathan from fruity flash Packerand the three of us that actually met
in Manila. And while we werein Manila, there was a typhoon that
came through, and so that wasthe only thing I could compare it to.
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It was like, this literally isas strong as the typhoon winds that
we experienced. I think it mighthave been stronger. Like we walked from
our hotel down to the lake andwe stopped, we got chocolate and we
got like hot chocolate because it wasstill cold, and we get down and
it's just like insane, like iflike loose stroller was like trying to control
itself because it's just so windy.It was really really wild. So the
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day we went, we stopped ata couple of viewpoints, but we had
like pretty off and on, likerainy, not the nicest weather. It
was really windy when we got there. But the next day we woke up
and you know, we went forbreakfast and we checked out a viewpoint that
was in Sant Martino, Los andAndy's and it was beautiful. We had
such a beautiful day and so drivingback we stopped at a few more spots,
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which was really really nice. Butthe views are just incredible and a
lot of places that we stopped atreminded me very much of the Pacific Northwest.
It was giving me heavy like Oregon, Seattle, Washington, like British
Columbia type vibes. The nature isjust absolutely stunning. All the lakes are
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beautiful, like everything's just pretty welltaken care of there. You know,
there isn't like a lot of pollution, and it's just an incredible, incredible
experience to have. Yeah. Andthe place that you can stop at about
halfway or can't stop at the city'scalled Via Angostura, which I think if
we were doing this and we werejust like, hey, we're going two
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weeks kind of basing ourselves out ofbarolochap but we're not working, we're not
doing the nomad thing, I thinkI'll probably try to stay there. Maybe
you try to stay and send Martineand like mix it around a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, I thinkone of the maybe biggest bummers of
the trip was that we didn't haveamazing, well even good weather, and
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so we had planned to hike,like I said, and so I think
we'd wanted to kind of do youknow, maybe a couple of small hikes
on our way up and then acouple on our way down, and there's
plenty. There's plenty for all differentlevels. There was lots that we're going
to be very you know, familyfriendly with lou and stuff like that,
and the weather just was not reallycooperative for that unfortunately. So yeah,
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I feel like I could see usgoing back and just making up for all
the hiking that we didn't get todo this time around. Definitely. So
that's kind of our list of whatwe did that we really enjoyed. Outside
of we'll talk about just walking aroundthe center, and we'll talk about food
because that was a huge part ofit. But one other thing that I
want to mention that we really wantedto do but unfortunately it just did not
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work out with schedules and climate andstuff like that, was there's a boat
trip that you can take that goesfrom this port that's really close to Hotel
Jaujao and it takes you to IsleVictoria and Boss Gayda ad Ayanes probably butchering
that word as well. And thisis probably one of the more popular tourist
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things to do. I don't knowif you can do this on your own
or not. We were going tojust take the boat tour and kind of
do that. But yeah, Ithink just with work and sickness and whether
it just didn't work. So we'vegot something to do next time, but
just something to check out if thatseems like your vibe and something that you
want to do. Definitely like apopular thing that many many people recommend,
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so yeah, we'll just add thatto the list. Yeah, I think
there are a couple hikes you cando from closer to via Anglostuda to get
to Bosque at Ayanez, but obviouslyit's a VICTII. I think it seems
like there's like two tour companies.If you know someone there with a boat,
I guess they could take you,but it seems like you've got to
be on a tour to get tothe island for the most part. Yeah,
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for sure. And so one ofthe things we haven't talked about is
the town itself. The town itselfis super super cute. It's full of
a lot of local shops, restaurants, and chocolate stores. Barri Loche is
famous for chocolate, which who's goingto complain about that? Not me?
So there's many many chocolate shops thatyou can visit, but I want to
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give a shout out to our favorite, which is Rapanui. Probably most people
who have been to barri Loche willtell you to go to Rapanui. Rapanui
is awesome. They have amazing chocolateand also you go in this this shop
that looks like a little chocolate shopand it just keeps going, like you
go through and you're like, oh, there's a restaurant here, and then
you keep going and you're like,there's there's a skating rink back here,
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Like what is happening in this store? So not only do they have quality
chocolate, but they have skating ifthat's your thing, if you have a
toddler like us. Lou really reallyliked watching the people skating, So I
definitely would recommend going to Rapanui.You definitely have have to have some chocolate
while you're in Barreloche though, It'sjust one of the things that you have
to do. Yeah, it's kindof funny Repnui so it's like famous baroloache
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place. We went a couple timeswhen we got there. We went maybe
a day or two after and boughtlike a hot chocolate then because that was
kind of very go to nightly routinewas having hot chocolate. And then so
then when we went to leave inthe airport, just before you go see
the security, there's another revenui thereand we'd been like, oh, should
we take some home? I don'tknow, and then we're in their parts
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We're like, okay, well weshould go, like right now. So
before we went to security, wentbought revenue, go through security. There's
another ravenue yeah, on the otherside of security, and then we're like,
okay, well, I guess wecould have got it there, but
we got some. And then flyto Buenos Aires getary and b pull up
ober Eats and we're like, oh, this revenue we're here too. It's
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like it's like the gifts they mostlykept on giving to experience. But you
should go while you're there because it'slike the where it started spot And I
mean, there's no skating rink atthe one in Buenos Aires, so at
least not that we know, notthat we know of. Okay. So
one of the other great things todo in Bariloche is to eat, and
there seems to be kind of twocategories of foods that are really common there.
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One is burgers. There are aton of burger restaurants in Baroloche.
Our friend Nathan, who Ryan mentionedthat we were with, kind of made
his mission to find the best lamburgerin Baroloche, so he was trying all
the burger places. And then there'sa lot of breweries, like Ryan said,
So we'll talk a little bit aboutbreweries in a moment, but I
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just want to name a couple ofrestaurants that we really liked. So top
of the list, top, top, top the list is all too El
Fuego. This is an amazing steakrestaurant. It was recommended by some friends
of ours and also by our Airbnbhost. They at the time of us
going slash the time of recording,they did not take reservations and they opened
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at seven thirty and they were fullby like seven fifty, So we would
go at like seven twenty five,and since we had a toddler, we're
standing out in the cold. They'dusually just seen us, which was amazing.
So go when they open unless youwant to have a pretty big weight.
It's a pretty small restaurant, orat least the one in the historic
center is. They also have oneat the train station, but the one
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in the center is pretty small,so they fill up pretty fast, like
I said, So that's definitely numberone, especially for steak. Second for
steak would be Carnero. I feellike this was a close second for me.
It was really really good. Theydo take reservations, so I would
make a reservation there because they alsofill up quite quick. And then oh
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bejan Nagra has like probably the bestempanadas we ate on our whole trip,
just very very good, very verygood and panadas. So I feel like
we kind of had this rotation oflike eating breakfast at home over han Nagra
for lunch, and then rotating likecan we go to Alto al Fuego again?
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Is it open? Yeah? Weended up going. How long were
we there for? Three weeks?Basically? Yeah, three weeks almost three
weeks. Ended up going to altel Fego three times, which honestly,
looking back on it, I'm likewe should have gone at least we didn't
go for the first time into likea weekend of the trip basically yeah,
because I think we waited until Nathangot there to go, and he didn't
get there till like a week afterus, which was just a poor decision
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by us. We've probably just beengoing right away. He probably went three
times in like eleven days or something, but yeah, that was great.
And then yeah, panadas of Argentinaif you're not familiar, and panadas are
kind of classic in many different placesof Latin America, but quick distinct,
so like Mexican and panadas are kindof different than like Colombian and panadas and
Venezuela and panadas, and then Argentinianand panadas almost a little bit more like
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calzone styles. They use glutenous spreadaround kind of like pizza crust and some
stuff and with all sorts of differentstuff. So Argentina has awesome and panadas
well, we had Negata had reallygood bananas. Yeah. Another place that
we frequently went, which this kindof gets into the brewery category of things,
is a place called Manuche, whichwas also recommended to us by friends
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who had been there and our Airbnbhost, so you know it's good.
There is a couple locations, onein the historic center and then one kind
of outside of the center as well. We visited both both were nice.
Manush was probably my favorite brewery thatwe went to, and we ate at
Manusia a number of times as well. Yeah, you don't really drink beer.
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I'm not I like beer, butI'm not a beer connoisseewer. But
it had good beer. And thenI think the thing that stood out was
the food. Like all the otherbirders you went too had like okay food,
yeah, but this one had reallygood food and like especially for the
season, Like there was this deliciouspop pie, burgers, good like comfort
warm food. Yeah, for sure. We got there and I started feeling
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sick first, and I was like, I really just want like soup.
My throat was hurting and my earswere kind of hurting. It was not
cold compared to what we experienced there, but it felt quite cold, especially
coming like from Mexico through Chile,and I was like, oh, I
just want something yeah, warm andsoft and soup like. And they had
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this chicken pop pie which was justamazing. It came with this like fluffy
crust on top of it, andyou break open the crust and it just
like gushes out heat. And itwas just this delightful experience for a cool
day. Maybe not what you wantif you go in the summer, because
it's quite hearty, it's quite warm, but you know, I tried other
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things there as well, they alsohad great burgers, salads, French fries,
like everything we had was really yummy, So I would definitely recommend Manouche.
And then continuing on our brewery experience, we also went to one called
Kunsmann, one called Berlina, andone called Patagonia, which if you do
any research on like surveys areas inthis area, Patagonia will definitely come up.
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So why don't you talk us throughthose three? Yeah, so Patagonia
is definitely the most famous of themall. I'm not sure about the timing
of like which one started first andwho kind of makes the claim to being
like the brewery, but Patagonia isfamous and it's also a really really popular
beer company. We hadn't been toArgentina in quite a while, so we
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didn't really know. But if yougo to a grocery store in Buenosides,
you'll see Patagonia beer, and soI think it's Patagonia. Twenty four point
something is the kilometer marker, Soit's the furthest of all the ones we
mentioned, like Manooche has in thecity and then it's just right out like
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maybe kilometer one or two, andthen they kind of just I think Koonsman
is the next close. Then Berlina, Patagonia is probably like thirty minutes driving,
and it's also the busiest, sowe didn't know you need a reservation.
Fortunately, because of Low's like napschedule, we showed up like right
when they opened, and so wewere able to get a table. But
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I think we were quite lucky becausewithin what forty five minutes, I think
the whole place was full, whichit's huge. This one, I would
say it was the most beautiful forsure. It like overlooks a lake.
Just the interior studying. They've donea really really great job with the location,
but probably the worst food. Yes, yeah, totally worth going.
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You should make a reservation, getout there on a sunny day. I
don't think, like the views areamazing, just really cool vibe to the
building's beautiful and they have put allthese cool chairs outside, So totally worth
going to. Beers are really goodfood risks soso, so maybe don't plan
to eat there or just have asnack, like get some French fries or
something like that. Yeah, andthen but they don't have ketchup. They're
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like, do you want barbecue sauce? I was like I'm sorry, what
no, I want ketchup. Theother kind of most popular beer is called
Blessed. You'll find that beer otherplaces in the country. They have one
or two locations. We actually gotsome food there one time, felt like
it was kind of mediocre. Soyeah, I would not put a blest
on my list of recommendations for placesto go. But I think the thing
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that's great is you can go toother great restaurants and you can get the
beer. So Blessed beer is definitelya recommendation. But Koonzman and Berlina,
like we said, we're a littlecloser, you know, kind of more
fifteen to twenty minute drives from maybeten to twenty minute drives from the city.
Both were really nice. I thinkwe really liked Berlina because they had
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this beautiful back patio space and wehappened to go on a pretty nice day
and they had a playground in theback, so it was very like family
child friendly. There was another littlegirl who was about lose age and they
you know, had a stand offover a little slide they were playing on.
But you know, that was areally nice experience I think for us
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having a toddler. Yeah, andKunzman has a really really nice view.
It's like right on the there's aroad between it and the lake. But
famous other view. Definitely noticed,like the prices there were a little bit
more elevated. Our meal was good, not crazy good, but totally worth
a stop at. And I thinkit's pretty pretty famous as the spot to
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go. Yeah, for sure.I think like marking all of them and
just knowing like when they open andclose and stuff. And then if you're
doing like Cerquito Chico or you're goingout to hike, these are really great
spots to stop like before or afterhikes or your sightseeing and things like that.
Berlina and Kunzman we didn't need anyreservations, so Patagonia is the only
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one. It just is like themost famous. It has just like a
whole setup and this whole walk thatyou need to do to get down to
it and stuff. But like wesaid, it was definitely worth it.
Two other noteworthy restaurants that we willmention. One is Anima. Anima is
like out on the loop. Itwas close to Berlina, not too far
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from there, maybe five or tenminutes driving. This is like a tiny
little restaurant. They had what ninetables. You definitely need e I it's
like a tiny little house with ithas tables in it. Hard to get
a reservation, hard to get areservation. Thankfully, we were traveling with
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a food blogger, so he wasable to get us in for a reservation
and they had it was an incredibleexperience. They had incredible food. I
think one of the main challenges thatwe had, maybe just in general with
Argentina, was that everything happens reallylate, and we have a toddler who
coast to bed around eight, butmost restaurants we were going to didn't even
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open till eight, so a lotof nights she wasn't going to bed till
like ten, so her schedule wasreally thrown off. So that was a
particular night where I think we gota reservation at like nine, eight thirty.
I was gonna say seven forty five. No, because we were there
at midnight. No, it wasno, we're such grandparents, such old
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people. No, we weren't therethat late. I think we got home
at like ten thirty or something oreleven. Anyways, we had a later
reservation, maybe it was like eightthirty or eight forty five, and so
she was like exhausted when we gotthere, so that's a bit challenging.
But I think this is like aplace that kind of pre child I would
have like absolutely adored this experience.I still really enjoyed it. The food
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was really good, but between beingtired myself and then having like a kind
of tired, cranky toddler, Ifeel like that takes away from it.
But Anima, I would definitely recommendtry to get a reservation early. And
the other one is me Piace.I think this is right in the kind
of near the center. They havegreat breakfast and great lunches. This was
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definitely a go to lunch spot forus, and they have really really ammy
cookies. Yeah, more of likea cafe vibe, but yeah, for
the good cookies. Seemed to bequite popular with more of like a local
crowd and wasn't kind of down inthe touristic zone. Yeah. And then
the last two places we want tomention are coffee shops. Doble Serro was
like our daily go to, amazingcoffee. I think one of the great
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things about being in Argentina if you'rea coffee drinker is that the cafes just
do it well. They do itright, They take their time, incredible
lattes, great hot chocolates there.They had like some food that was good,
but I feel like really not whatI would write home about, but
they had really great coffee. LikeI said, we went there almost every
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day just because it was kind ofon our walk into town and also cool
work set up too, like thatI winded work there one day. If
you need to like bust out yourlaptop for an afternoon, that's a good
spot to do it, yeah,for sure. And then the other place
we went to, which has likeyou know, full breakfast and even like
lunch options, and I think kindof has a side for dinner later on
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YEP, is called Malaysa. Malaisais in a different part of town,
but still kind of off the sortof city center. But what's great about
Malaysa is that they have an incredibleview of the lake and on a really
beautiful day you can sit outside.They've got picnic benches, they've got tables,
they've got kind of swinging chairs,and then the whole interior is just
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big glass windows. So we wouldgo there in the mornings. Some of
the mornings we hoped to be hiking, we would go and get coffee and
some snacks and stuff like that andjust look at the views. And it
was a really great way to kindof enjoy what Barilocha has to offer without
necessarily being able to be outside orbe hiking. So would definitely recommend that.
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Yeah, And I think that wasa really So it's beautiful. You
can sit outside great on a niceday, but I think for us like
the not so nice days, likethe windy days, the rainy days,
it was also just a way tofeel like we're inside. It's sess and
warm in here, but you havethis beautiful view, but you're still cozy.
So it was kind of like away to feel like, oh,
we're appreciating the beauty of this areawell being safely inside. Yeah, for
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sure. And so that kind ofconcludes the list. If anyone's been and
has anything to add to it,feel free to reach out to us,
but we'll make sure all of thisis on the show notes for you guys,
for anyone who's planning, But justknow that even if you hit janky
weather or you get sick in Barreloche, there are still plenty of things to
do and see, and if allof those spills there is really really great
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food. We eat lots of otherplaces that didn't make the list that we're
still really good, but those areour top spots, So why don't we
just wrap it up with kind ofoverall the impressions and final thoughts. Yeah,
so I think overall the vision protrip was We're going to get out
a couple times a week in themorning before starting work and hike and be
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it on weekends, and kind ofgot I've been unlucky with the weather and
then also being sick, so thatpart of it didn't work out as well,
but still really really enjoyed the trip. It was really nice, like
it's a good sized city, feltreally comfortable there as a parent, and
just lots of cool stuff to do. That food was really exceptional and just
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like everywhere you go you get areally awesome view. So it's definitely like
a touristic spot, but I thinkwhile worth going to, and especially if
you had like a bigger trip,could be a cool spot to like slow
down for a little bit. Butyeah, overall impressions were love to go
back. I think I found myselflooking at real estate listings afterwards, which
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is always like a good sign.Yeah, I feel the trip was like
challenging in many ways, with youknow, the weather, being sick,
all the things I've mentioned. Wedon't need to belabor those parts. But
at the same time, I feellike the same thing, like, I
want to go back, I wantto experience more. I feel like there
was things we didn't get to dothat we wanted to that I want to
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go back and do. And thenthe one final thing I'll say is that
I felt like it was just likea really like great destination with a toddler.
I felt like it was like aquite a family friendly destination outside of
maybe like the late starts for dinnerand stuff, but that's just Argentina in
general. That's just a cultural thing. But you know, I never felt
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unsafe walking around. I felt comfortabletaking lou out on my own. I
felt like she was welcome everywhere.There was playgrounds and many parts of the
city there was stuff for her todo, so and I felt like it
was just a really good sized cityfor what we were looking for. So
yeah, I feel like I wouldecho what you said, great spot.
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Would love to go back. Hopefullywe'll get to go back in the next
couple of years. Yes, definitely, and then I think we only other
thing I would add if you're thinkingof planning a trip there, I think
Berloichi is the place to be ifyou're looking for like a spot in Patagonia
to be a nomad. I thinkif you're just traveling, maybe like a
couple of nights there, a couplenights in Saint Martine, a couple nights
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in different cities, maybe camping somewherewould be the way I think about doing
it. Yeah, but if youare working, this is a great spot.
There's co working spaces which we didn'ttake advantage of because we had a
good Airbnb setup and the cafe likeRyan mentioned, but yeah, co working
spaces and stuff like that. Soif you are looking to base yourself there,
it's a great hub. And sonext time on the show we were
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going to talk about Buenos Aidis.So we will be back with our part
three and final part of our Argentinaseries in a couple of weeks. Thank
you guys so much for listening tothis. We hope you enjoyed it,
and we hope we hope it inspiresyou to maybe plan a trip to Barrilo
j because barely, which is incredible, just maybe don't go in November.
Yes, until next time. Higuys, thanks for listening to this episode.
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