PHOTO GALLERY
Our starting point is Buenos Aires - Argentina,  the city that never sleeps.
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We will talke a city tour to show you the most important buildings, along with 500 years of history.
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We will experiencing Tango and the very local people
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Also you will be seing "gauchos", the very local Pampas people at an "Estancia" (Typical country house).
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The Gauchos will show us, some of theirs beauties, like their horses, as everybody knows, one of the best world wide.
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And a typical "jineteada", like a rodeo guy, the gaucho spent much of his time riding horses.
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After knowing the Pampas people, our direction is 400 km South, to Mar del Plata city, the Happy One.  An ocean city with much nautic activities.
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Mar del Plata is full of sea lions, as you can see below  represented in the monument of the city placed downtown.

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Patagonia Photo Gallery

Welcome to The Andes - this is the Lanin Volcano, our first Andes spot, here, we will visit it trekking one of his sides....
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Typical view of the Nahuel Huapi Glacier Lake
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The Limay River, where we will do rafting.
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Over the Cathedral Mountain where we will practice skiing and snowboarding.

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Into the deep "Arrayanes" forest. Unique in the world.
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Living behind the Esquel city and the Andes we cross the Middle Patagonia, land of sheep's, southern gauchos and farms.
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A local Southern Gaucho carrying a lamb over his horse to the farm, were probably they will eat it.
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After crossing the arid deserts of the Middle Patagonia, we will reach the ocean at Puerto Madryn.

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This is the procreation area for the Austral Whales, and the feeding area for the Orcas (Killer Whales).
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Will see the largest colony of Sea Lions
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and the aggressive colony of Sea Elephants....
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fighting for they space and the right to have a "girl"...
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seeing young ones, learning how not to be eaten by Orcas......
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and the "Isla de los pájaros" - Bird Island, a isolate place in front the beach in the San Jorge Gulf....
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This island is the biggest penguins and cormorant colony of the South Hemisphere
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A gaucho from the Pampas preparing an "Asado" (tipical Argentinean roast beef), will be waiting for us in our return trip to Buenos Aires area.
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Photo copyrights by:  Mark Royo Celano
To see more photos visit his Web Site:  www.royocelano.com.ar