Puerto Madryd

Arrived at this National Park town after an exhausting bus journey across the planes of Argentina watching all the cattle (55 million of them). We got a cheaper bu to save money, but couldn´t sleep so immediately we got there booked an expensive one to get back to BA.

Whale watching tours out on a boat were loads more expensive than the guide book said so to save money we had a Spanish speaking guide. Usually most guides only say a thing or two, but this lady spoke non stop for the whole day so Rach and I listened to her drone on for hours, then have a go at us when we wandered off into the park alone about not leaving the guide or something like that?

Went out on a tour boat to watch whales swimming around (although we were the only idiots in shorts and T-shirts so were exceeding cold after 3 hours of hunting aquatic mammals. Whilst in the park we also saw killer whales trying to snatch sealions off the beach (a sight so rare that the guide was jumping around for joy and got the minibus we were in to stop at an illegal place to watch them until a ranger came along and shouted at us). We also saw penguins, armadilos, Elephant seals, and other various wildlife I have no idea of the names.

Whilst in PM we also hired bikes to ride to the local sealion colony and watch sealions sunbathing (there were hundreds of them and alegedy you can watch them "eating/playing/fighting/ etc". We didn´t the lazy buggers, al they did was shuffle up the beach a bit more when the tide came in! It was really cold down south so we spent afternoons drinking tea and eating chocolate.

We also visited the town of Trelew and Gaiman, which were settled by the Welsh years ago. They still have Welsh tea houses where we had an all you can eat Tea and Cakes afternoon. Unlimited homemade cakes and proper Tea, I thought I was in heaven. Unfortunately I ate so much the suger buggered my system up and I spent the whole day feeling sick