Day 34 - Missed Obama by that much!

San Carlos de Bariloche

We have a really nice airbnb apartment for four nights, and so far this is is the best place we have stayed in. The location is great, just near near the town centre, and the apartment is modern and spacious.

San Carlos de Bariloche is the chocolate capital of Argentina, with chocolate shops everywhere. We're in town for the National Chocolate Festival, held here every Easter. Today's main event was making the world's largest chocolate bar in the main street. Thousands of people lined the street to watched while molten chocolate was poured on a long table, spread and sprinkled with nuts, then left to cool, with music, speeches, entertainment and of course an appearance by the Chocolate Queen! The bar was then broken into chunks and given away to the crowd .... M went back for seconds of course.

Anyone for chocolate?

We spent most of the afternoon stuffing around trying to figure out the public bus system. It was sort of like Myki, but with its own quirks, in this case we only needed one card for the two of us, but it was hard finding a place that sold the cards. Once we finally had a card we caught the bus along the lake, and got off at Puerto Panuelo. After a quick look around the port we walked up to the five star Llao Llao resort, we decided we deserved a drink while we admired the view.

Obama was here

After we returned the hotel we discovered that Obama had been at Llao Llao for the afternoon just two days before - lucky we didn't try to drop by that day, we are sure the security wouldn't have let us in.