10/04/04-13/04/04 Puerto Madryn

On our arrival we were in need of two things, a shower and a launderette. Managed to find both very quickly and then set about exploring. Not surprisingly the exploration was cut a little short when we found a nice restaurant/bar overlooking the sea. The next few days we took it extremely easy and mostly sat on the beach. We did take a walk up to the beach where the welsh settlers landed and explored the ecocentre near there. I also managed to find a welsh tea shop for my first decent cup of tea in the southern hemisphere. Hooray.

There is a site here showing where the Welsh settlers first went over and they lived in buildings constructed into the caves along the cliff. This was obviously a very long time ago and there wasn't a town there then.

Lots of cars with ridiculous body kit here but it turns out all of Latin America has this- good fun to laugh at as they crawl noisily up and down the coast road. Not much else to say about the place except that the beach isn't all that nice. It sounds like Southend- but it's a lot better.