January 10, 2011
back to this last sentence with the previous post. Our next adventure with the bus was much less successful. We had to leave at 8.30 Trelew. At the station we were told that our bus is delayed and will arrive around 10.30, but earlier, who also goes to Comodoro Rivadavia and will be around 9.30. Hour later, no problem, we'll wait.
Ok. 10.00 as there is no bus, so no. Another question and answer in the window, the bus will be about 10 min. As it turned out, that we had yet to hear the answer many times. Eventually a bus arrived around 11.00 (the one who was to be about 9.30). Checked our tickets, it turned out that we can take you, packed our luggage, we boarded the inside, and here ... no seats! They made us get off, gave our luggage and said, lest wait for the next bus, which will be around .. 10 min. Then it was already known from our original bus is delayed by 8 hours, but guided by intuition we did not want to risk waiting for the end niego.W 12.00 near the bus arrived, who had a place for us and finally we moved in a way. Of course they asked us whether we really want to go, because we had bought a place in the higher class, which you did not have this bus, but because we had only go 6 hours, we did not care that we just spoke.
In this way learned August following local custom, especially in defining the relativity of time, ie, with 10 minutes may mean the 4 hours.
Other local customs, to which we can not get used, the decomposition of the day. Banks normally operates in the mornings and wczsnopopoludniowych, which makes it difficult to exchange money for us, because we are busy then often something else. Queues at banks after the payment are like us in the old days, and also stand for the ATM queue, because often only one of them is money. We've managed to withdraw money for a third approach. In the middle of the day is usually a siesta, which means that most shops and restaurants are closed, shops to 17.00, and bars opening up until after 20.00. Occasionally runs into a single otawarte grocery stores, so do not die of thirst, and often no small pastry shops are open, or kiosks, where you can buy cold sandwiches, pizza and various bits of sweet cakes. Thanks to this well are not dying of hunger, but it is our diet had become very poor and consists mainly of so-called. medialunas, a sweet croissants, which serves breakfast here. and we also often eat them for lunch with no choice. Dinner is eaten, there were approximately 21.00-22.00, which for us is far too late.
Well, enough whining. We spent the last two days in a small, friendly Puerto Deseado miejscowowsci lying over the ocean, where there is a nature reserve, established at the mouth of the river, where de facto the ocean enters the riverbed is about 50 km. With him appear sea creatures such as dolphins, sea lions, various birds, and of course, penguins. We chose a trip a little further from the mainland, the island of penguins, which live both magellanskie penguins, who were watching at Punta Tombo, eggs and penguins rock. On the way to another island zahaczylismy, where there is a colony of sea lions, in which males lounging with his haremami on the scales. On the island of penguins podgladalysmy other sea lion colonies composed exclusively of males, most of them elderly or takiech which is not yet established a family.
But the most fun constituted penguins. This was quite different than the survival of Punta Tombo. We went there among the crowds wild, there was us in total 18 people, and we had the whole island to yourself. Magellanic penguins we passed among the other side of the island where penguins nest hilarious rock. Lazilismy there beside them taking pictures with a very close and would sit in the midst of them. Although the island is not great, our walk lasted several hours, and in conclusion we had a picnic by the sea, of course, in the company of penguins. Here more than anywhere else felt that we were only guests in this beautiful place totally taken over by animals, that have taken over even the remnants of old buildings. We had beautiful weather at the same time, like a crawfish spalilysmy despite the sunblock, and a little way back, we porzucalo on a stormy sea, but it was worth.
And now you're just in the wild heat of the bus without air conditioning (because it broke down) to Caleta Olivia, and in the evening we get on the bus to Rio Gallegos, where to go longer the next day directly to Ushuaia.
PS. One more thing, which is hard to get used to, is, to throw waste paper basket next to the toilet to toilet, and then after it, lest August clogging the pipes. It's hard for us to come, but we try to apply to those recommendations.
10 January 2011
Forget the praise in the Gave in the last post is the public bus transportation. A few days later in a hard lesson Learned. We were to take a bus from Trelew at 8.30. At a bus station in the discovered That our bus was delayed and would arrive at 10.30, however there is another one at 9.30 That the board could. 1 hour waiting seemed ok. At 10.00 the bus was nowhere to be seen and when Agnieszka asked at the ticket box she was told the bus would be here in ca. 10 min. Later we heard such answer many times and by now we know it means at least (!) half an hour. At 11.00 the bus that was supposed to be there 1.5 hour earlier finally arrived, we were allowed to board... only to find out there were no seats left. We were told to wait for the next bus which would come in no more than... 10 min. Around 12.00 that bus finally arrived and we got the seats. It was hot and dirty inside but we did not care really. As long as we made it to our destination the same day...
That´s just one of many lessons in local customs we have gotten so far. We have learned (with difficulty) not to throw the toilet paper into a toilet but in the trash bin next to it. We have also learned that the during siesta (from 13.00 to 17.00) most shops are closed as are restaurants (the latter open around 20.00 and the first guests arrive at 21.00). This is a bit too late for us so we mostly have to relay on bakeries which sell some wet sandwiches, white bread and of course huge variety of cookies. My main course at breakfast, lunch and dinner are medialunas i.e. sweet croissants.
But enough wining. We have just spent 2 days in Puerto Deseado, a charming, small harbour town. Here the ocean waters are pushed into the riverbed by 50 km bringing in lots of wildlife such as dolphins, sea lions, albatros, petrel and of course penquins. We bought a trip to Penguin Island lying a bit further in the ocean and it was an amazing experience. Penguin Island is a rocky island inhabited mostly by Magellan penguins (we know this species already from Punta Tombo), but also rockhopper penguins, sea lions, oyster catchers (a very funny small black bird with a long red beak) and albatros. For several hours we walked between the penguins, carefull not to step in any nests or destroy eggs. We had the whole island to ourseleves! When we reached rockhopper colony, we stopped for a long while just enjoying their company. These penguins do not mind humans and let us come real close. We took this chance and filmed them, took pictures or just sat close by, no more than 0.5 meter away, and admired them. On our way back we stopped at sea lions males only colony (mostly elderly or very young ones) and watched them fight, rest or dive into the water. Finally we had a picnic by the sea, accompanied by the penquins of course, which seemed to get used to our presence. We got sunburned and shaken up on the boat on the way back but all in all this was an absolutely unforgetable day.
And as Agnieszka is writing this post, we are on our way to Caleta Oliwia in a 30-degree heat, on a bus with not air-conditioning (it´s broken). From Caleta we take a night bus to Rio Gallegos and after an overnight stop we continue by bus to Ushuaia in the Fire Land.
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