Because when you're not riding the old Patagonian Express encountering 2700

year old trees in Los Alerces National Park, or stuffing your face with pizza

and pasta and the town's many restaurants, there are actually some fun

nearby trails to tackle so that's the plan for today's video but first you

guys have to meet our cat friend she walked into her apartment on the first

day we arrived and pretty much made herself at home this is the sweetest cat

ever it's a little girl cat she just decided she was gonna come and hang out

with us she's sleeping on my arm you didn't even put it there like this okay

we are well on our way so we basically crossed the whole town of Esquel

heading north along Fontana uphill continues uphill now we've got

this sign it says Laguna La Zeta. Three kilometers. - That's where we're going.

we've only just begun work off that massive parrilla we had for luch yeah as an FYI

you can take a taxi all the way up and then walk down that's what a lot of

people do I think it's not the lazy way I would say a lot of people did I think

Audrey was hoping to do no no no no that's what locals told us to do they're

like it see take a taxi walk down I'm gonna

enjoy walking off the parrilla let's do it

lots of people heading up probably for sunset yeah guys the trail does get

better yeah we're off of the dirt road we're actually making trail so quiet

it's peaceful we're not thinking about vehicles coming or dust blowing in her

face oh yeah we're just surrounded by pine trees and pine cones all over the

ground this is what we envisioned this is what we hiked but I have to admit

even though we did walk off that you know like the dirt the dirt road yeah

some amazing views of esquel and we got I mean the higher we got yeah we're spectacular the

panoramas became yeah there was just quite a bit of traffic on the road like

there's a lot of people driving up with their kayaks yeah it looks like family

groups so you get these like clouds of dust everyone's everyone's rushing for

sunset you mean sunset we can see the water the lake does exist I was starting

to wonder we're here oh there's drinks or ice cream up here Oh Oh we'll be

first in line my friends

we found a shortcut hmm yeah we're heading back down the

mountain into town to esquel we're gonna go to her cottage enjoy a lovely picada

yeah well show you all that cats gonna join us yeah

hello hello we are back at the place bottle of red wine I pick this one you

did and it's fantastic I've been having some sips it's my favorite are you it is

a Malbec 2017 of course from Mendoza Argentina oh so

good it's velvety smooth velvety smooth I have a good taste

you're welcome and we prepared a little picada back on our platter diet yeah

back on the platter diet this is awesome wolf and the mosquitos are whoa yeah

they've noticed we're here soon banana Parmesan cheese apple green pepper green

olives crackers bits of different types of salami green olives

that's salted almonds awesome variety we can't wait to show you what we get up to

while we're here it's gonna be a lot of fun alright guys we are getting ready to

walk up the mountain I really bundled up for this one it's a windy day so I'm

wearing Sam's a jacket because I didn't bother

packing one I was thinking summer in Argentina yeah we still need to get some

more gear like the temperatures are dropping so much in the morning yeah we

need to probably get some warmer socks we need to get some winter like in fall

hats hats maybe mix so we do need to go shopping maybe we'll even do that today

when we go into town yeah there's some really good outdoor outfitter stores so

yeah let's see what we can find for now thanks for sharing like I'm looking for

something like this just in my size and a woman's cut because this fits funny

cuz I don't get it cool idea I find to really I do like to keep my ears warm

yeah I'd love to have a warm hat now funny part is that some people are

wearing t-shirts and tank tops and I'm just like how are you doing this but

yeah we're basically walking out of the city of esquel now we have to go through a

neighborhood and then the trail starts leading you up the mountains who are

walking on 25 de Mayo that's the name of the street and we've kind of

left like the city center and we're on a steep incline at the moment oh well it

is a steep way up my friend but we are starting to get some views of esquel

just behind

well impressive mountains all around oh my gosh yeah so when we were first

climbing up it looked like we were gonna be taking sort of a straight path right

to the top of the mountain that we're planning to climb but it's not it's kind

of veered off to the left and that means we're a little bit further away from the

city but we have this insane view of the mountain range over there like that's

not something we've seen since we've been in esquel like with this kind of

view so it's been incredible and the hike has been really cool it was

actually steeper at the beginning you know this part is this flat for a while

I've been feeling that we may be like veering and kind of circling around to

get to the top but we have no idea since we we didn't really read about this hike to cerro de la cruz

we're just winging it and so far it's been great

well guys we are back we're back in a little cottage apartment desert was

amazing before we talk about anything else we talk about anything else

we haven't been filming a lot this afternoon though we came back from the

hike we did we took a siesta wait we did not reach the summit of cerro de la cruz no we made it like

halfway up the mountain and it was getting so windy and then we kind of got

off the trail and then we ran into a French couple and they're like yeah

you've still got an hour to go now just getting up would have an extra hour

going back and we're like errands to run we're back into town so we did not reach

the summit but you get really cool views of esquel halfway up because you kind

of have this view point where there's no trees there's a bit of a clearing

honestly it's it's an incredible thing even if you don't make it all the way up

to the top yeah yeah we did just go about halfway

you got some phenomenal views also when I told you that the path wasn't getting

is steep that's because we were going the wrong way the wrong way yeah but it

was it was a good mistake to make because we got some great views of a

mountain range of wouldn't have seen otherwise yeah and then after the hike

okay ran errands remember there was a tour we wanted to go out so we asked the

taxi drivers and the meece how much money they wanted to take us out to be

that bad either it was like 230 US dollars yeah the guy's like he did the

math it's gonna be a hundred kilometres times 35 people are good on the way back

nine thousand pesos recorded me and was oh you can't you can't negotiate with

that kind of an offer so we booked it for we wrote the to her it's gonna be

$60 each and the nice thing about doing the tour is that I mean we'll have a

guide we'll get more background information and we get lunch we get a

in that so it's it's it worked up for the best

yes and yeah so that after the we came back it took a little nap we got

a little peckish because 8 o'clock is a long time to wait

for pizza so we end up going up Kate yeah it's delicious and then after cake

we've been shopping because you know we didn't we bought that summer summer

clothes it's surprisingly cold in esquel the wind the wind factor is increased so

this right here is a new flannel shirt I got this for I think 16 US dollars yes

really nicely is warm you got a new jacket let's do

show-and-tell you have a shopping bag we do oh my gosh

I hope I'm not like showing my I felt like underwear drawing all over the

apartment let's move in this direction you first first no you first

you have more purchases well this is the most exciting project I mean this is Sam

is becoming a Gaucho Gaucho hat look this is Tolosa to Peeta I mean what this

from a shop where they specialize in this so let me try it on for you guys

they had cotton hats and wool hats wool for the south cotton for the north so

apparently in terms of styling it you can kind of wear it any way you can like

go like that wear it back where I think it looks kind

of silly if I wear it forward but um super comfortable Sam needs to discover

his Gaucho style yeah and it just it's it just feels so good like I love

collecting hats and I do not have a go-to hot

so this is the first gotcha hat that I'm buying hopefully not my last one

mmm and what else did you get oh what's up just those two items you also know

and we got wool hats with what we got two kinds of wool hats they fit both of

us so I mean doesn't really match actually your jacket so oh yeah I've

been wearing you wanna pull it out I've been wearing Sam's winter jacket because

I didn't pack one it's all right to the tomboy pretty much better yeah you're

wearing this over pizza you'll get to see this when we going yeah it's kind of

like black gray bit of green it's nice it feels so anyway so that's what we've

been up to this afternoon yeah and this was what's the closest to us thoughts

yeah I mean it's the cheapest one I could find they had some jackets that

were like the equivalent of 500 Canadian dollars and we're like what and look

guys just as we're heading out for pizza

yeah this is the second meow Z we've met so far oh look the salami familiar they

live together owners yeah you you adjust it because yeah I've seen them walking

into the supermarket like the only place you absolutely they are those you cats

yeah and they're well taken care of like she takes them to the vet and she feeds

all the local strays right so we're gonna start shopping at her place a lot

to support her there's me looking happy anyways we're gonna start getting

ready I also have to apologize for the huge mess that is our apartment right

now well this is realistic when we give you guys apartment tours and then we

clean up please that's esquel ours you're living here yeah that's just a

little that's when we're packing up to leave yeah and this is the real deal

okay we're messy

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