Our hotel is the Arelauquen Lodge outside of Bariloche. It is a resort with all kinds of things to do but specifically golf. This is the view from my room. The hotel itself is designed as a ski lodge as that is what it is as the lifts are 3 minutes away from here.
I went to a chair lift - sort of - and went to the top. 
It wasn't for skiing - just to take tourist by the hundreds to the top for a view.
But the view was amazing and worth the effort of the ride.
When they developed this area in the 30's they advertised it as little Switzerland. It would more accurately be called big Switzerland as it goes forever. Even the architecture is in that style and the people that came here are mostly from Europe.
It is the Lake district of Patagonia.
It has been compared to Lake Tahoe, but I think it is 20 times more beautiful then that.
The ski resort and runs are on the far side of the mountain on the right. It is the most important ski area in South America. The altitude on the top of the mountain is only 7,500 feet. It is hard to believe that the snow and the skiing would be that good, but I don't really know, it sure is pretty though.
The other direction - water water everywhere.
Thierry doing the briefing for tomorrow's flight to Buenos Aires.
We went to dinner to a restaurant on a lake (not hard to do here) with this view it was really great and elegant.
I was bored so I did some art shots - I thought they were cool.
Art!Tomorrow I will fly to Buenos Aires. It is over 700 miles so the best part of 3 hours. The weather is supposed to be good and I am looking forward to getting there. Today was a slow day as I was really tired from the flights yesterday and staying up late to do the blog. I actually went to the little city here and walked around trying to shop but there was nothing to buy. Hopefully BA will be better.
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