Neuquen

Neuquen

It’s an ugly town. There really isn’t anything here, except the notoriety of being the business hub of northern Patagonia (Neuquen province). One thing that this town has going for it is the fact they have the largest carnivore and herbivore dinosaur remains in the world. We visited an actual current archeological dig site a few kilometers from town. It was very interesting and Payton was interested for the first 20 minutes before thinking the small rocks on the ground were more valuable and important than the dinosaur bones that were bigger than me in length. Oh well! We had a good time. In addition, almost the entire tour was in Spanish. We understood 30-40%. Which is huge for us! We visited a wonderful bodega after our paleontology tour, Schroeder Bodega. We had a 5 star lunch at the restaurant. It was by far the best food we have had so far in Argentina. The wine was very good as well.

Afterwards we spent 6 hours driving to San Rafael and ended up arriving in town late in the evening (9:00pm). We splurged for the suite at a nice and expensive hotel, only so we could get a room quickly in order to get Payton to bed. After parking, checking in and setting up the room it was 10:45 before her head hit the pillow. We decided to find a different hotel the next morning so we could get back on track with our budget. We found a cute place that looks like Melrose Place hotel…