Patagonia

We recently went to Puerto Madryn, in Patagonia. It is very cold there, unlike Buenos Aires. The best thing that we did was to go on a long bus ride to see different parts of it. While we were riding through Peninsula Valdez, on the way we saw many sheep and many guanacos. At the first stop, we saw a beach full of sea lions and elephant seals. Then we went a bit further and what we saw was my favorite thing, which was penguins. Many penguins. The picture above is of one of the penguins. The type of penguin is a Magellanic Penguin. At the next stop we saw a beach with more sea lions and elephant seals, and it had a ton of seaweed on it. Then we had lunch, and after that we went on a whale watch to see Southern Right Whales. Southern Right Whales are really endangered. We went on the boat ride, and at first we didn't really see anything. But then one whale with its mother came right next to the boat. One of the characteristics of the Southern Right Whales is that they are very curious. It was great. The whales were trying to impress us by doing tricks and spraying us with their blowholes. Then we went home.

That was mainly what we did. The hotel where we were staying had a heated pool, which we went to a lot. Also, we found very cool shells on the beach.

We are going to get on a bus to Iguazu tonight. It will take us about as much time to get there as it took us to get to Patagonia: close to 20 hours. The bus has chairs that can bend all the way back or only part of the way back, to make a bed. Iguazu is a place that has a ton of waterfalls. It is right next to Brazil and Paraguay. We are very excited to go there.