The Puerto Madryn Trip

Hey All,

So, it's been a while since my last post! and i'm sorry, things have just been really busy here.

First, last Wednesday, I headed down to Patagonia! I went via bus, which meant the trip was incredibly long. But since I had a long weekend for Easter, I figured why not? After 23 hours on a bus to the city, I headed to the hostel, which was great. The next day, I headed around the Port, which was really interesting. There's a lot of history of the Welch influence in this area, which was shown in many of the statues around the city. One painting I thought was interesting was this one:

Which essentially means, A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not why it was built. 

Puerto Madryn seemed to have a long history of naval ties in various wars within the Argentine path and I thought this was an interesting sentiment.

On this first day, I headed to the museum called the EcoCentro, which had tons of information on all the wildlife of the area, but I really wanted to do a tour of the Valdez Peninsula right to the north of Puerto Madryn, so I booked a tour for the next day.

After getting picked up from the hostel at 8, we drove to the peninsula. There was so many amazing sights in the Peninsula, which has been designated as a national park. We covered the whole peninsula, saw orcas, sea lions, sea elephants, more penguins, llamas, and tons of other wildlife. It was a long day, but it was definitely a really cool place to go to. It was probably my last trip to Patagonia and even though I'm sad that it was my last time there because it's such a beautiful place, I'm excited to have the opportunity to spend more time in Buenos Aires, the lake district of Argentina, and other areas in the north!

Classes are really picking up too! By this time next week, I will have finished two midterm exams, one in Listening and Conversation and one in the Economic Development of Argentina in the Context of Latin America. I'm not too worried about Listening and Conversation, but I still have a lot more to study for Econ, so I'll probably be spending a lot of time this weekend in the library, but it'll be good, and all my classes are just pass/fail, so I'm not too worried.