Carmen de Patagones -> Puerto Madryn

I woke up early and prepared myself for the journey to Puerto Madryn (short journey), there was as usual no breakfast to find, so I ate my second apple and a few biscuits; and set out to find an internet cafe with headsets (for skype), but there was none and so I went to one without. After exhausting the city yesterday, there really wasn't much to do until my bus left at 12:07. When the time came closer to the bus's departure, I went to the bus terminal and bought a ticket from Puerto Madryn to Río Galeagos, a journey going from 8:00 in the morning on the 28th of January until 1:20 in the morning on the 29th of January. And then engaged in a funny conversation with the till-lady (funny because she spoke in fast Spanish, and I tried to keep up), which ended up with her buying a danish 50 øre coin from me.

I boarded the bus and set out on a very uneventful tour through patagonia, with movies shown that I not already had seen but which were also in Spanish, and no there was no way to not listen to them (the movies), they were out on the speakers. One very pleasant thing however, was that they showed The Sentinel, I very much appreciated that as the question of who the main role besides Kiefer Sutherland was, a question which had been nagging me for days (it was Michael Douglas). Now the trip itself really highlighted Patagonia; Patagonia is not at all unlike Australia, although there is more vegetation. It is the limitlessness of it all, wherever you look there is a sea of green shrubs, as far as the eye can see (and even further). Normally that doesn't seem so immense, but it's like the world isn't round here (with the horizon barring your view), it seems flat in the sense that you can see for ever and ever and ever and ever. The view is breathtaking, but so far I haven't been able to take a picture of it (and uploading pictures is proving very difficult), but I will.

I arrived to Puerto Madryn about 20 minutes late and quickly found my way to a hostel with space, and what a hostel. In previous hostels I had often found myself internally complaining about the state of the place, but this place is very clean and tidy, with English speaking staff, free giant lockers (fits my rucksack easily), very tidy beds and a very neat bathroom; all at a low price of 40 Argentinian pesos per night. I also booked a tour to Reserva Faunística Península Valdés, a reservation which is very rich on animals, the very reason I came to this town.

After I had eaten dinner (pizza) at a very cosy restaurant with kind waiters, I sat down in the hostels common area and started writing in my diary, when two Americans Kyle and Sarah http://www.flickr.com/photos/twaize/2229108408/ (from Colorado no less) and I started having a conversation culminating in the three of us walking around the town looking for ice creams and ending up looking at knives (don't ask). Eventually we made our way home and I went to bed around midnight, thinking I needed some sleep before the tour to the wildlife reserve.