well good morning guys from our hotel room here in rio gallegos today is a travel day
and full confession we are pretty bad planners sometimes like we just forget to check details
like departure times and things like that so today we were absolutely convinced that we
had until 4 p.m to kind of like you know stay in the hotel get some work done we even asked for a
late check out because we thought that's when our bus was leaving the city and we thought we were
arriving in el calafate santa cruz argentina at 8pm well no it turns out our bus leaves four hours
earlier at 12. so yeah it's a good thing we decided to check the departure times on our
tickets this morning because now we are basically running around trying to finish work sam's trying
to finish uploading some videos i have to clean up this mess we have behind us i need to take
care of the packing and yeah we need to get organized we thought we were gonna have a bit
of a chill work day because this hotel has such a nice lounge area but no we need to get going
which is fine because we are off to el calafate argentina which is probably one of the most
beautiful destinations in all of argentina patagonia it is known for the majestic glacier
perito moreno which we do plan to visit so we're actually super pumped to be heading back inland
here we've been in coastal patagonia argentina now we're going to be heading back inland it's
a relatively short bus ride four hours so yeah we're feeling pumped we just need to get started
so some of you are probably going to find this really weird but when i leave a hotel room
i have to make the bed and leave the hotel room looking tidy i think maybe it's because as a
child my parents used to run a hotel and i heard the horror stories of like how messy people were
and like the disasters the bedrooms were when some people checked out so i just like to be
a good guest leave things looking good so that's what i'm doing right now i'm
making the bed perhaps a little weird let me know if you have any quirks with hotel rooms as well
so
voila room is clean and tidy sam's packing up the camera
the laptop would given the lack of time we had this morning we got so much done got a
video up so look happy for that i didn't think it was almost like a bit of a mission impossible
now we just gotta hopefully do you got your bus on time please fingers crossed
made it to the bus terminal and sam likes a good map there's a fantastic map here so we can give
you kind of a visual of where we've been in the last few weeks so we started off in barloche we
did earlier right here went all the way to elbow zone where we hung out with valentin then we had
the asado in a scale yeah goodbye to valentine now you gotta zoom out here zoom out so then we went
all the way down to commodore spent a few days there loved it then all the way down to here
overnight bus again to rio gallegos now we're going to el calafate as you can see there's the
there's going to be glaciers to visit right here then el chalten and then from there we're heading
into chile to visit torres del paine and then we're going to punto arenas our last stop in chile
ferry to the chilean side of tierra del fuego yeah and then we take the bus all the way to ushuaia
and then we're going to be heading to tohuin and then back to buenos aires that is the rest
of our trip guys you have revealed the rest i've revealed the secret my oh my
all right guys so we are on the bus we scored some amazing seats once again that's the beauty
of booking your travels in advance on like last trip yeah um we were able to get seats one and
two right at the front um and this is meant to be one of the most beautiful drives ever like the
mountains yeah seriously once we get back to the west side you're gonna be you're gonna be pulling
out of the the zoom camera too yes double camera action and before i forget to mention the prices
because i usually do this was hundred and eighty pesos per person twenty dollars twenty us dollars
it's a four hour bus ride and yeah sam also got us a little picnic lunch we have some sandwiches
i'll do a little show and tell with that all set for this journey i'll put my passports away
they're so chill here they didn't even ask for my passport they're like yeah yeah okay yeah i
i love the relaxed um way of just life down here yeah especially people are very friendly once you
get into like the smaller cities and like towns yeah it's it's got a easy going small town vibe i
love it love it he loves it lunch time check this out guys this is the ultimate argentine fast lunch
it's you get your um flavored water which is a pear flavored water yeah okay pear juice
phantom shay alva one of my favorites also one of the most sugary yeah it's coated in meringue yeah
and then the sandwich de miga trible which is basically a sandwich ham and cheese it's gonna
be perfect because we won't be having dinner until until later arriving at 4 5 checking
in and then wonder like pounding the pavement in search of tours yes search of tours for the
for the following days so i don't see us eating dinner until probably close to eight and so this
hello guys we have arrived in home sweet home in il oh so nice to be here this is the part of the
our of our trip to argentina that i've been most looking forward to starting from here onward i
can't wait i'm so excited to be here landscapes seriously oh and it was a good bus ride it was
so we started off we left like maybe 10 minutes late and then there was a special event going on
oh yeah it's like the day of the virgin and there was a procession happening on the highway and a
pilgrimage kind of right yeah it was a pilgrimage so they had closed the highway down to one lane
for traffic and then on the other side people were walking biking riding horses yeah just getting
to the cross and to the virgin any way they could it was a long way let me tell you yeah there were
people i could you could tell they were struggling on their journey they were kind of hobbling a bit
other people took their dogs and then as as it was getting closer to the to the site there were
a set of stairs that led up a hill yeah i was actually eavesdropping on the conversation next
to me because the guy was saying that he had done the pilgrimage he was telling his
girlfriend who's not from around there um and he said he would go drinking with his buddies
stay out till five in the morning and then when they were all drunk at like 5 a.m they
would start like stumbling down the highway start their pilgrimage towards the virgin and
they would get there at like 11 in the morning so that's a lot of walking and yeah exactly and then
to to make us a little bit more late we were randomly picked for a police and a
police and military check yeah the whole bus was checked the whole bus was checked so we ended up
arriving half an hour late we're at our place closer to five now we arrived at about 4 30
but it's still still a good time um it'll be it's a perfect time actually to go organize our tours
yeah siesta hour is over and there may be some restaurants that have gringo hours
because normally dinner's at eight but i think we can eat a little bit before then and also we need
to give you guys a little cottage tour because this is our first a-frame like alpine style
cozy chalet so i think it's gonna be nice i mean we can hear the wind howling and like rattling but
you know what's also really nice is that sunset isn't going to be till like 10 p.m
so we can go eat and get our tours booked and then we'll show you the tour at the very end
okay i think someone's hungry i i get it so i get the hint all right let's go eat let's go
well guys welcome to el calafate it is time to eat lunch so we found a pretty cool restaurant
it's called isabel and they specialize in comida disco that's food cooked in like this
round pan i don't know if there's a word for it in english in the menu they've translated it as
plow but that somehow doesn't sound right in my head so yeah we ordered the trout with
a blue cheese cream sauce and we also added pasta to it ravioli and i'm so pumped for this like sam
is pumped for this sam also went into the cellar yeah and picked out a really nice wine for us
yeah miguel mini we haven't tried this one cheers malbec 2017
it's really smooth oh i love it it has a rich violet color yeah and like um like a berry aroma
like it makes me think of morris blackberries and plums i don't know maybe maybe it's just me but
it feels a little smoother than some some mobile i like it i love it try the bread tell us how it is
bread with butter it's fresh out of the oven it's so warm oh man i'm so ready to eat bread i love
how in argentina they don't make you wait they know you're hungry they give you your bread and
your wine here's your bread here's your wine get at it i love that my friends my friends my friends
what has arrived this beautiful pot this beautiful disco as they call it locally
yes there's the fish which we sprinkled cheese on top look at that dude the trout
beaut what a beautiful thing look at that stringy cheese so that comes with
um some parmesan cheese sprinkled on top but also blue cheese that's what's in it so much and
we have the papa's fritos the potatoes oh my gosh there's so much there's so much trout
that it's actually encroaching on the on the potato portion rustic potatoes
rustic potatoes and guys we we paid a little extra to get some raviolis all on the plate
looking delicious you know what i'm gonna put a little more cheese on there why not right
you never have enough cheese can you not when you're samuel jeffrey
oh my goodness very strong blue cheese in a good way in a great way in a great way um
lingering aftertaste oh look at this ravioli is loaded with spinach spinach and ricotta
this is delicious this is the high calorie food you need for all the hikes you're
gonna do while you're here we're gonna be outside exploring all day so we need some
hearty food in the evening to sustain us for the next day's adventure okay
you nobody likes them though this is terrible
no oh my god
hello people greetings from the field the future new outfits new day yeah exactly um sorry we
didn't uh we we didn't update you guys after after dinner such a good dinner we kind of just bottled
back here and then went out for a little quick beer we should tell you about the price point yes
so what was it it was it was a pretty affordable meal honestly so the fish dish the comida al
it was 23 total yes and it's a dish for two people yeah keep in mind i think that was
one of the more expensive ones that you could get yeah yeah so aside from fish they also had chicken
beef lamb like you can really find all sorts of different what a vegetarian one yeah so
all sorts of different comida al disco and then we got a wine that was eight dollars it was a
really nice wine it was so smooth and i still i still can't stop thinking about the bread
oh yeah that was nice with lots of butter yeah we really picked out it was such a good meal
i i could go back there again there was a couple items there was one called the bondiola
which is pork and it was done napolitano style so i would have had a tomato sauce and cheese and
bacon yeah oh my goodness one thing i did notice like some first impressions of walking through the
town was that there are a lot of restaurants that the center is beautifully maintained
reminds me a little bit of vijaya langustura also banff in canada yeah just very very well
kept beautiful buildings lots of restaurants lots of shops lots of interior agencies so
it's great we also went and organized some tours as well we sure did so we've booked two tours so
far we're honestly playing it a little bit by ear because the weather here changes constantly
and like even the tour agencies told us you know what it's better to just book like a day or two in
advance so that you are getting good weather and it's not like raining as a great example of that
already within a day the weather has changed for tomorrow yes so it looked like tomorrow
was gonna be windy and rainy and i was going to be beautiful and so what i ended up doing
is i ran back to the tour agency to book a tour for us tomorrow because it is one of the one of
the sunny days that we're going to get we're going to be on a boat tour um we're go tonight
we're going to an estancia and we also want to do some ice tracking while we're here so those
are the three mosques and then there's also a viewing deck but you can go to there any day
and apparently you get you get the glacier views no matter what the weather is so i'm not so i'm
not so concerned about that but for the boat ride and for the ice trekking we do want to have nice
weather yeah so those are the three main tourists we want to do the boat trip to see the glacier and
then a little bit of ice trekking on the glacier and then the estancia which is happening today so
we're super pumped for that i'm doing that in a few hours yeah we'll be another start
getting ready for that we'll take you along for that journey but right now we wanted to give you
the cabin tour that we promised you yesterday so we'll do it got some daylight let's make it happen
oh sam's going to be behind the camera you ready yeah well this is home sweet home for the week
we rented a cute little a-frame a little alpine style cottage i've got to tell you for me
personally like this is a very basic cottage and i would say it's like one step up from camping just
because this is kind of like plywood and then i hope they have some insulation and then like a tin
roof but it's been so windy like abnormally windy that it feels like the roof is going to fly off we
had to we were sleeping upstairs but it was just it was unbelievably loud it felt like we were out
and out and see with the storm so we had to come down here there's a there's a pull-up mattress i
slept on there yeah this is our sofa but it turns into a bed and there's another mattress down here
so that's where we slept last night because it was so loud everything was rattling and shaking that
we were like we're not gonna get any sleep um so that was our first night's experience here in this
cottage um apparently the wind is gonna die down over these next few days so we'll see how this
cottage holds up but i just kept thinking of the story of the three little piggies
you know the one that built his home with straw with wood the wolves did the wolves didn't come to
blow it down but the patagonian winds yes yeah yes um so yeah well this is kind of like the living
slash dining area which you know we've converted it into our little office for the time being
and then we've got a little kitchen so yesterday after we ate our delicious meal we also went to
the supermarket to la anonymous and we stocked up on some fruits yeah here we got some avocados
trying to eat a little healthy pears apples bananas in between our high calorie traditional
argentine meals well there's also cheese and salami like hiding in the fridge so not that
healthy um but yeah they left us like a little kettle with some tea bags some coffee hot cocoa
um we don't actually have a stove here but we do have one of those like electric elements that you
plug in and you can cook right here there's this little microwave a microwave it's like a toaster
oven that's a big toaster oven yeah yeah so we do have a toaster oven and a microwave
but i have a feeling we'll also be eating in town because we've just seen too many places that are
tempting us yeah and at least half of the days we're here we're gonna be out on tour anyways
yeah so yeah so yeah and then just off the kitchen we've got a little bathroom it's tiny so i don't
think you're gonna fit in here i mean this is an a-frame so we've got our toilet no bidet you can
see the a-frame uh against the shower there it's got a shower a little sink oh no there
is a bidet what am i saying this is argentina of course there would be a hair dryer a hair dryer
i didn't notice this i was looking for a hair dryer upstairs although you mentioned this place
is like camping it has everything you need it has a good wi-fi yeah that's true it doesn't work
it just doesn't have uh it doesn't have a good soundproofing system yeah the winds which is
problematic at night when the winds are howling all right all right and now i'll take you upstairs
to the bedroom this is the first sleeping quarter these stairs are very steep they are they really
are i'm gonna try not to chill myself coming up here i'm gonna hand you the camera audrey okay
it's like climbing into an attic yeah so i suppose i'll finish things off here yeah um if you look
behind me there's a little shelf in front of you the front of me i should say in front of me this
is himself there's extra bedding which we ended up taking downstairs yeah an electric heater which
would obviously come in very handy in the winter months we're here in the late spring almost summer
so we don't need it but then yeah we have a bed enough perfect for it's good enough for two people
and uh you really see the a-frame portion like as soon as you get out of bed you're at risk for
bumping your head you are unfortunate i haven't done that yet but i'm sure it'll happen before
the end of the trip and then you have we have a tv this is going to be our place for for a week
and uh it's gonna be great i mean we have good internet which is what we need we have a good work
desk honestly we're gonna be this is a destination where we're gonna be out and about almost all the
time i don't see us spending too much time here a little bit of work and sleeping and that's
it and so this will be this will be just just good enough for for what we need it for so yeah guys
thanks for watching this episode and we're gonna have some very exciting episodes from here we're
gonna be visiting glaciers and yeah this is one of the most epic places in argentina patagonia by far
so please stay tuned for those episodes and we will see you soon
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