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Day
8 (October 27, 2019) Puerto Piramides
Before
Our flight from Ushuaia to Trelew takes off at 10:50 AM and is
scheduled to land at 1 PM.
Once in Trelew we’ll pick up our rented car, which we’ll deliver the
next day. We’ll drive around 150 Km from the airport to Puerto
Piramides, in Peninsula Valdes, which will take around one hour and a
half.
We may do some stops in our way in El Doradillo
beach and Interpretation Center Istmo Ameghino.
Our plan in Puerto Piramides is a walk around the area and, probably,
going to Puerto Pardelas for a chance to whale watching from the look
out and enjoying the best sunset in the area.
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After
We have time this morning for packaging and having
our breakfast with no rushes. We ask for a taxi to the airport and it
is at the door in 5 minutes. We pay 280$ for the ride. Our flight takes
off as scheduled and arrives at Trelew at 1 PM. Before leaving the
airport one can see this is a dinosaur area.
All goes fast at Trelew airport, even picking up
our rented car. We leave it in the parking because we already had the
thought of having our lunch at the airport since it doesn’t seem there
are lots of options on the road to Puerto Piramides. We’re limited in
the time we have for it, though, since today is elections day in
Argentina and they’ll close at 2:30 PM to go to vote.
We get one Milanese each and share a salad by
1450$ and leave the place just when they’re closing.
We finally leave the airport and drive on the
longest straight roads that goes through this flat landscape. We can
see a rhea, some other birds and multiple guanacos in the way before
reaching the gate to the Natural Reserve, where we pay 850$ per person
and 120$ for the car.
Next stop is at Visitors Center, where we’re
alone. We comment to the staff our plans for today and tomorrow and
they tell us road to Punta Pardelas is closed to traffic and there is
no fauna at Punta Norte. We’ll use this information to amend our plans.
We can see the whale skeleton and killer whale skull that are exposed
here.
 
The idea now is driving directly to the hotel from
here, but we’re still stopping one more time in a lookout to Puerto
Piramides and its beach.
Once we’ve got room we walk by the beach to the
other side of the town, where the agencies for whale watching are
concentrated to get our tickets from the booking made by our hotel.
Somehow, we find most of these agencies are closed already, and that
includes the one we needed. It seems they close at 5 PM.
We walk back to the hotel by the main street to
check our options for getting some food for dinner. We get some meat
patties for today and sweet pastries for tomorrow’s breakfast.
We get our room when the sun is gone and it’s
getting chilly. We had a warm day so far here. We’ve already checked
there is nothing opened after 8PM here.
 
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