December 8th, 2010
Bariloche, Argentina
After an incredible Bife de Chorizo and Malbec dinner last night, we woke up this morning, (well, late morning) to clear skies and ripping winds. Our goal for the day was to complete the Circuito Chico, the circuit around the seven lakes in Bariloche.
We jumped in our rental car (we'll get back to that in a few minutes) and headed out on the road. Our Casita is just off the circuit, so it made it easy to get going. Our first stop was Llao Llao an amazing state built hotel with panoramic views of the lakes and mountains -we were already impressed. However, as the day went on, every stop we made was more beautiful than the last. The best looking back toward Llao Llao, seeing the beautiful hotel from afar AND all of the panoramic views.
We stopped in Colonial Suiza, or Little Suzy to us, a place we visited on our Big Trip... now almost 4 years ago. The small little town, discovered by Swiss immigrants has grown a lot since our last visit, it now has 4-5 restaurants along the one and only dirt road and even a microbrewery. We visited the campground where we spent two nights and reminisced a little before heading back to the main 'stree't for lunch.
Over lunch we talked about how we never go back to places and do it all over again, we prefer to make new memories. That's true with a few exceptions. Little Suzy isn't a place we want to rush back to, but overall Bariloche has been beautiful and we are happy to experience it in a different season, Spring.
Back to the car, yes we rented a car. This is a true luxury and something we definitely couldn't do on $100/day. We keep finding ourselves going back to that point in time, the time of the trip, when we had to decide to do something or not. Do we pay $20 to ride to the top of the mountain, do we have the nice bottle of wine with dinner? Do we eat Clif bars or grab a real meal? When we were travelers we didn't do any of the extras, but now we are on vacation and can splurge a little more. Who would we rather be?
2 comments:
I want to go to Llao Llao, Now NOW!
It's nice to splurge, but there's nothing quite like being on a long rtw trip. i cant believe my rtw was 4 years ago as well... i so wish i could do it again!
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