Tuesday, October 9, 2018 -
Virginia Ann elected to stay in the casa that day, have a massage and try to relax her back. Cal, Darren and
David headed out for Valle Rio Baguales.
They parked at a
ranch and hiked hills where they could see guanacos and beautiful waterfalls.
Virginia Ann had a leisure breakfast in the lodge where she could see Almirante Nieto from the lodge as well as our casas. The mountain had three incredible towers with snow-capped sides and clouds that floated over them. Sarmiento is the lake adjacent to the Awasi Patagonia property.
Virginia Ann had a leisure breakfast in the lodge where she could see Almirante Nieto from the lodge as well as our casas. The mountain had three incredible towers with snow-capped sides and clouds that floated over them. Sarmiento is the lake adjacent to the Awasi Patagonia property.
Along the river were high cliffs with colorful lichen and white splotches - the white color is poop from condor nests.
Like the Guanaco - we were very excited to see our first one - but did see others over the course of our visit.
Baguales means 'wild horses' in the indigenous language - Tehuelche.
It is named after the Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa.
Dinner 8:00PM of Trout Tartare, salad/soup, Lamb or Fettucine and grilled vegetables. The food that featured traditional fare of the Patagonia area like rabbit, lamb or guanaco was delicious (to Cal) but if you ordered something like chicken or vegetables it just wasn't as good. Fish was hard to transfer in. This property had just reopened for the season and we think the kitchen staff and chef were still trying to get a system down.