Final lot of pictures I hope
I'm now in El Calafate, and about to go into town to change some Chilean Pesos into Argentinian Pesos. I'm only here for tonight and then I'm off down to Ushuaia.
There are a couple of the guides from Explora in Torres del Paine who are here on their 5 days off, so I may bump into them down town. It's been another beautiful day today, and hopefully the weather will follow me down to Ushuaia!
The barbecue yesterday was incredible. You'll see from the pictures below the massive fire pit that the lambs were cooked in front of. There were empanadas, potatoes, salmon and fire-warmed buns. The Quincho where we were was a large wooden cylindrical structure with the fire pit at the centre and the roof sloping up to meet the chimney in the middle. When the fire was going the room was toasty hot and so it was necessary to have a cold beer or two to compensate.
Apparently the fire was started at 10 in the morning and the meat was roasted for 4 hours. Whatever they did with it it tasted superb. They also had a gaucho game which involved swinging a metal ring attached by string to the ceiling to the other side of the hut to try and get it to hook onto some nails in the wall.
I was addicted and was playing for about 10 minutes in which time I managed to hook it 6 times - apparently that's rather good because the gauchos seemed quite impressed!
Below are a lot of the pictures from the past 2 days.
After the sun had set, a mirror-calm bit of water reflecting the mountains
The sun setting over the Torres del Paine
Reflected mountains again
The gauchos cooking the lambs in front of the fire pit
Ditto
There are a couple of the guides from Explora in Torres del Paine who are here on their 5 days off, so I may bump into them down town. It's been another beautiful day today, and hopefully the weather will follow me down to Ushuaia!
The barbecue yesterday was incredible. You'll see from the pictures below the massive fire pit that the lambs were cooked in front of. There were empanadas, potatoes, salmon and fire-warmed buns. The Quincho where we were was a large wooden cylindrical structure with the fire pit at the centre and the roof sloping up to meet the chimney in the middle. When the fire was going the room was toasty hot and so it was necessary to have a cold beer or two to compensate.
Apparently the fire was started at 10 in the morning and the meat was roasted for 4 hours. Whatever they did with it it tasted superb. They also had a gaucho game which involved swinging a metal ring attached by string to the ceiling to the other side of the hut to try and get it to hook onto some nails in the wall.
I was addicted and was playing for about 10 minutes in which time I managed to hook it 6 times - apparently that's rather good because the gauchos seemed quite impressed!
Below are a lot of the pictures from the past 2 days.
After the sun had set, a mirror-calm bit of water reflecting the mountains
The sun setting over the Torres del Paine
Reflected mountains again
The gauchos cooking the lambs in front of the fire pit
Ditto
posted by Ken at 10:19 pm
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