I was happy to arrive in El Bolson after a 28 hour bus ride. It's a small little town set in a little valley among towering jagged peaks. We got ourselves settled then went to the renound crafts fair in town (well, as renound as a crafts fair in a small argentinian town can be). We spent the day just hanging around and exploring, and then went to the local brewery in town (since apparently I am making it my mission to try at least one brewery in every town) and spent the evening there.
In the morning a couple of us went up Tollado Bosque which is a section in the woods (30 minute climb) where local artists have gone up and made intricate carvings into dead trees-- pretty cool, actually. We continued up to the refugio up there and it started snowing-- it was the first snow of the year for them!
To be honest, Bolson wasn't as ... impressive(?) as I had expected. It was built up as a hippie haven and just sounded amazing, but really it was pretty similar to all the other small Argentinian towns, just in a beautiful setting. Of course it didn't help that the weather was overcast and snowing. I caught a bus in the evening up two hours to Bariloche.
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