After leaving Buenos Aires I arrived in a place called Mercedes which was very different to the big city. It was very simple and rural and everywhere you looked you saw people drinking mate and some of them even wore the tipical gaucho outfit, which are the southamerican cowboys. But the final stop was an even smaller, simpler and remote place. If there was not at handful of tourists coming to Colonia Carlos Pellegrini there would literally be nothing going on at all. On the bus there where also two guys from Germany which spoke good spanish and as I did not understand much, I attached myself to them. Michi, Stef and me spend the next days together and did a boat tour in the Esteros del Iberá where we saw a lot of caimans, capibaras, all kind of birds, flowers and other wildlife. An asado with a few beers among huge frogs, capibaras and caimans at the beautiful campsite concluded the trip before we had to take a private transport back to Mercedes as the bus was not going on the unpaved road due to the rain that was supposed to come (but in the end didn’t). To see some pictures click on this one:
This was five meters from my tent
I had a good time with you guys, see you back home in Europe