Beach Bush Camp in Monte Hermoso
We left Buenos Aires at 8am this morning to head south towards Patagonia. It was the first morning I put my fleece on since the air was a bit chilly. Actually it’s still very warm but everything below 30 degree feels somewhat cold when coming from the extreme heat of Brazil. I’m also afraid it will become much colder in a couple of days when we are down in Patagonia. I heard there is lots of wind which makes it feels even colder than it actually is. Although I have lots of warm clothes with me I feel mentally not ready for the cold. My grandma used to say “lieber erstickt als erfroren” (rather suffocate from heat than freeze to death) and you know grandmas are mostly right.
To avoid getting up early I skipped the hotel breakfast and got some take-away from Starbucks. Probably not the healthiest option but certainly convenient and tasty. After breakfast on the road I continued sleeping until lunch time. After a quick sandwich type of lunch next to the road we continued travelling all afternoon.
The road number 3 which connects Buenos Aires with Ushuaia is more than 3,000km long and you can spend whole days travelling on it. While travelling south you can also observe how the vegetation is becoming significantly thinner. The lush forest, we had in the Iguazú National Park a couple of days ago, is all gone by now and we are surrounded by a few bushes only. The land is flat and so you can see kilometers ahead. There are also less towns and villages next to the road so it’s kind of boring to look out of the window and you easily fall asleep. From time to time the view is interrupted by the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and you recognize how mighty the landscape at this part of the world actually is. It feels really good to be out here and after all the city life and “luxury” in the last days we are back to the basics and in the middle of the nature.
We felt nature even more during nighttime when we arrived in Monte Hermoso around 7pm. The local campsite was closed for some reason and so we had to look for a bush camp. It took us only a couple of minutes to find a beautiful spot at the beach where we set up our tents. Actually this type of bush camp is my favored one since I love the sea. When you lay down in your tent you can hear the sea, breathe fresh air and you only have to open the zipper of your tent to have an amazing view at the sea. The only thing I was unsure about is the tide but I couldn’t resist to put up my tent as close to the sea as possible. In the worst case I will get swamped in the middle of the night and need to get up to move my tent.
Dinner was prepared by our driver Ross and he cooked some delicious fresh tortellini with tomato sauce. While cooking he also benefitted from the beautiful outlook at the sea which was right in front of him.
