Fri 21st Nov: San Martin De Los Andes

I decide to stay on in San Martin for a day. I haven´t done anything on the diary/blog in a week so I thought it would be a good place to catch up with that. Also, I head for El Calafate

tomorrow which is over 36hrs of travelling, nearly 3 days of buses so I want to be rested for that. Today is a lazy day so. I write a bit in the diary and then because of powercuts, spend an age lookinfg for an ATM that works. Back in the hostel during the afternoon I chat to an American lad who tried to climb Volcan Lanin but was forced to turn back due to high winds. Its a 2-day hike up that mountain with an overnight in a refugio. It cost him 300u.s. for a guide and equipment....Expensive!!

There´s a french lad in the dorm. He´s into fly fishing in a big way. He´s travelled the world after trout and he is in Argentina simply to fish for trout. He has represented France at world championships and been part of their team which has won 9 straight world titles. It was interesting talking to him. Different, certainly.

I don´t get as much done as I thought I would. In fact I don´t get to update the blog at all. The power came back on at 7pm but I ended up chatting to Tomas and some other Dutch. I´ll be glad to get out of San Martin. Its been an anticlimax after Pucon. I´m looking forward to the morning and the road to Calafate