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3 goals, 1 car and 4 people, these are the components that have accompanied our adventure to the protected area of Peninsula Valdes. The objectives were clear: whales, penguins, lions and elephant seals.
Kevin, California aimlessly traveling the world, the Simone, a German doing around the world, and we have decided to rent a car to explore the peninsula, certainly one of the cheapest ways to explore the area. There have been 180 km from Puerto Madryn to a gravel road that they say, or dirt road with sand and stones that you can find if you neglect turned upside down. We have come to Caleta Valdes, high tide, and there we headed to the viewpoint of Punta Cantor with all hope of seeing whales, the typical scene documentary, hunting hl7 obr lions on the beach, but we have not seen nor .
We walked along the path that is in Punta Cantor and we saw a lot of elephant seals sunning beach walk. The highlight, however, was when we reached a penguin that is about 7 km north of Punta Cantor where we saw a colony hl7 obr of 47,000 penguins, Magellanic penguins, who come here to breed, and are nesting right now, we have even seen some copulation, we have video to prove it. We have been surprised to see them so close, and if we could have touched them! It was awesome !!!
sunbathing But when we thought we'd seen it all, we stopped in Puerto Pyramids hl7 obr to the sighting of whales, the activity par excellence in the area. This has been an indescribable spectacle, whales and their calves, ballenatos, walking by the side of the boat, a young male jumping, and blowing hl7 obr cuatejant, their three ways of communicating, a group of males trying to copulate with a female, whales jumping like crazy causing a "ooooohhhh" A deafening the boat ... no economic activity but extremely recommended.
the iconic image of the tail of a whale whales we saw are the Southern Right Whale, leading to warmer waters to breed at this time have grown and are now migrating to land preantàrtiques, which teach eat their young and since then it can go to Antarctica. These whales are usually here in September, when the young have come and Antarctica, because here there are quiet. Such whales can weigh 45 tons and their offspring grow 6 to 7 centimeters per day. Really are great !!!!!!!!
We indication own whale sighting tour, we had a lot of luck in order to see what we saw that afternoon. However, these animals can be seen at first sight from the coast, in our case, the day before, at the very beach of Puerto Madryn. Another point is the recommended Doradillo the beach, which also high tide, you can see lots of whales from really close. This beach is only about 19 km north of Puerto Madryn, a small bike tour. :-P
Around Puerto Madryn hl7 obr we have visited Punta Loma, to get there we rented a bike and pedal have 15 km round 15 back. We have reached a viewpoint located on a cliff in a cove and there we saw a colony of sea lions, "Lobos Marinos of a single hair," be angry with each other, swimming, playing, screaming hl7 obr ... Well, this is the "postcard"!
There are other places where you can go to admire the southern fauna, one is Punta Tombo, 180 km south of Puerto Madryn, there is a penguin of thousands, well, 400,000 penguins on a path you can walk within the reserve and occasionally you can cross one of these enigmatic animals. The idea was to go there, but we were more than satisfied with everything we do in Peninsula Valdes, so we decided not to go there, step estalviàvem we find ourselves surrounded by tourists, and 360 km car rental . You can also go with a tour, but the prices are expensive in Patagonia. And the other point of interest is Punto Ninfa where you can go down the beach and watch closely lions and elephant seals.
Let the data in case anyone is interested, we rented the car Dubrovnik rent a car (the boss a very nice guy), and a 5-door car has cost us 473 pesos / day, with limited to 400 km. The sighting of whales we made Botazzi and cost us 370 pesos per person, in fact the prices of tours are standardized, all agencies hl7 obr charge the same. We stayed at Casa de Tounens 65 pesos / person / day in a shared room and breakfast is a