What an exciting place

Lago Puelo is an wonderful place, you can visit every single day of the year.

You have many exciting places that yo can visit by car, by bus or walking.

There are log cabins for rent with amazing views to the mountain.

For some activities  you will  requiere some gear. In the mountain you will  need a jacket, some climbing boots, special gloves for doing rapel. All this may cost a lot  of many money  but  in Lago Puelo and El Bolson you can find  a  lot of shops. That provide good things at reasonable prices.

You can buy great gifts to your friends like homemade crafts in the local market , this one is in Plaza Pagano.

Lautaro Avila

froom lago puelo

FROOM LAGO PUELO.

This place has a beautiful view, of the extraordinary lake.

Here you can go trekking to the mountains do rapel swimming, kayaking. Horse bike riding to get here you come by car, bus, bike or walking (through route) .the route is in rather bad conations though fifteen km. El Bolsòn. It offers services like cabins, camping sites and also many restaurants. Where you can taste amazing local dishes like, trout salmon traditional lamb strawberries jam. In summer you may enjoy the fiesta Del Bosque and market where you can to singers, have drinks, food and lasts three days.

PALMA DEBORA

              A mixture of colours, shapes, textures and talents

The Feria Regional (crafts fair) of El Bolsón has added magic to the town for over 30 years.

It all started in 1979 when a group of inhabitants from Mallin Ahogado who worked the land and harvested what it produced needed to sell these products. Rowan Brain and Fernando Geronazzo organized a meeting to see how to go about. After a couple of meetings they proposed Miguel Cola (the mayor) selling what they produced and other goods in a market in town. In 1998 the first regulation act was passed for the establishment of a local crafts and products fair. At the beginning there were only 12 stalls selling vegetables, bread, cookies, wool, clocks, pottery and other products.

It was located in Pellegrini Street between “Banco Nación” and school N° 318 for 4 years until they moved to the actual location.

Nowadays the fair surrounds "Plaza Pagano" and is one of the main cultural attractive of El Bolsón.

It is considered one of the largest fairs in South America with more than 400 stalls that offer diverse and attractive crafts: Leather work, knives, musical instruments, board games, wood carvings, dried flowers, candles, candy and homemade cheese, vegetables and many other original products.

On the other hand there are some disadvantages, the garbage that is left after a day of fair makes the town look filthy. I think the organisers should take part in this business, but despite this, is a place that you should not miss, where you will discover the uniqueness and touch of passion every craftsman puts into their products, you will never forget... 

Ana Persano

How to prepare to delicious jam

Such jams as wild rose jam is very useful to relish one afternoon with your family and friends in the Comarca . The fruit to make this jam you can find here in town and is orange. Many people collect this fruit and sell it to manufacturers who produce the pulp with which the jam is made.

The steps are:

    1)  Don’t wash raspberries

    2)  Add, 2 kilos of sugar

    3)  Mix

    4)  Start cooking steering all the time

    5)  Bring to boiling point for 40 minutes aprox

    6)  To know when it is ready you can.

 _ Drop a small spoonful on a glass with a bit of water or alcohol, the jam should remain a drop.

_ Or, put a small spoonful on a clean dish, let it cool, tilt the dish a bit, if the jam “wrinkles” it is ready

_ a characteristic “shine” is evident to the expert eye.

Palma Debora.

 

hippie town

                                                                    Hippie town

maybe you are thinking hippies???, on this year???. well we have to tell you that yes¡. the hippies come back and they are now in a colorful town, a magical town, el bolson the new hippie town.

nowadays have modified their ways of living. the live in a house, they drive cars, and the are cleaner than 1960's hippies, howeber they still wear colorfull clothes and long hair. the big difference is that now they are dedicate to create local crafts. and they are making some awesome things with precious stone, woods, clay glams and natural materials. most of the beautiful crafts are really expensive, and the food that they make is not so good i would say.

all of the moderns hippies are very friendly. they will probably invite you to sing songs that the play with a guitar or explain their natural believes, be honest with you most of them smoke pot (marijuana) and other things. but there is no problem they never bother somebody.

so in a conclusion if you want to conect yourself with the 60's year this is one of the best places thath you can visit on your holidays, but on the other hand if you don't like all of this movement we don't recomend you to visit El Mallin Ahogado where most of the hippies lives.

. Lucas Bautista

Kayaking in Lago Puelo

There is a wide range of water activities that can be developed in Lago Puelo, from scuba diving to windsurfing, but perhaps, one of the most interesting, easy and accessible is kayaking. In a Kayak you feel like sitting on water. Since you are the motor of the ship you decide where you want to go, it’s all up to you, there’s no limit but yourself. This sport is by far the best way to discover this gorgeous lake.  

However, there are a few recommendations you should follow so as to make the activity more pleasant. First of all, never go alone, though most kayaks are for a single rower, it’s advisable to paddle in groups. You should also bear in mind your own limitations, learning to paddle is an easy process but you must take your time to learn it.

If you are starting to discover this sport, I recommend visiting the webpage http://www.kayakpaddling.net/. The webpage is in more than 15 languages and in it you can find practical animated tutorials about kayak paddling. It covers from the essentials, from getting in and out of the kayak up to recovery skills, such as the eskimo roll.

It’s important to plan your route, remember to start paddling against the wind, because the return will be easier, take into account the fact that in Lago Puelo, the wind is generally western. And avoid going through the lake, it’s dangerous, try to go close to the coast line.

                                                                                                            Juan Martin Vido