an estancia called Nibepo Aike which is  located within los glaciates national park  

this is one of the many excursions that you can do  from the town of el calafate santa cruz and it's  

a nice way to spend the day in the countryside  learn about the inner workings of an Estancia  

and enjoy a traditional barbecue while  you're at it so let's kick off this

adventure

hello hello hey guys welcome to the estancia  Nibepo Aike i believe it is pronounced oh my gosh  

we're here we've wanted to do an Estancia stay  now for years 12 years i could say it's a visit  

we're here for the afternoon for a few hours we're  going to be doing everything that anyone would be  

staying overnight we get to do we're going to  get to tour the property have an asado all those  

things so we booked this tour directly in el  calafate santa cruz and they came to pick us  

up from our little cabin it was about an hour  and a half's drive a gorgeous drive gorgeous  

gorgeous scenery oh my gosh yeah most of it most  of it on a dirt road yeah and yeah we were just  

just like eye candy and you can book either a  morning excursion or an afternoon excursion to  

the estancia we chose the afternoon so we're  going to be having dinner here we get to watch  

the sunset then we're going to be meeting up  with the guide and learning a little bit about  

sheep shearing which they do here on the farm my  it is wendy welcome to patagonia argentina yeah  

apologies for any uh audio issues in  advance yeah let's get started yeah let's do

this so we've just arrived here  at the estancia now we're going  

to have a little tea and coffee you know the  afternoon merienda before we begin with our  

afternoon tour here in the countryside  so warm drinks and a little snack

a little tea to warm up it is windy outside cheers  i'm having a red berry tea which is very very nice

and then aside from that i grabbed  a little bit of cake this has that  

sweet potato not jam but like the duns that  we eat with cheese i don't know if there's  

a name for it in english then this is another  cake what are those little black seeds called  

forgetting my english poppy seeds and then torta  which is just a piece of fried dough it's really  

popular with coffee yeah it's warming up a bit  it's a little windy it is very windy out and yeah  

we're doing this excursion with a big group  so like different groups are arriving and  

we're all gathering together we're gonna have a  guide so yeah we're just going to eat a little  

something warm up and then we continue  we begin and we get started that's right

you smell bad you smell like dirty horses he  smelled like a country dog like a farm dog

and now to give you a bit of background  information on the estancia and how the  

seemingly odd name came to be this estancia was  founded by santiago peso a croatian immigrant  

who arrived in argentina at the beginning of  the 20th century he settled in an area which  

today sits inside los glaciatos national  park where he raised sheep and cattle  

originally the estancia was named la jeronima  but when santiago fell ill with tuberculosis  

and eventually passed away his wife renamed  the estancia in honor of their three daughters  

their nicknames were Nibepo Aike and so by  grabbing the first two letters from each name they  

got Nibepo Aike and then Nibepo Aike which means  place in the tawelche language that's the name  

well so far we have seen a  beautiful border collie the farm dog  

we've also seen lots of sheep with fluffy  buns and now a hair so i think we're doing  

pretty good for wildlife spawning at Estancia  and yes i'm including the cute dog as

wildlife

okay sam so we are standing in  front of a very important bush  

a very special place well it's called the calafate  which is what the town is known for it's called el  

calafate santa cruz named after the bush and  there's green and blueberries okay you don't  

want to have the green ones you want to have the  bluish ones apparently legend has that if you  

eat one of these you will come back to patagonia  argentina yes so i'm going to have a whole bunch  

if you want to return to patagonia argentina  you need to eat the berries of the calafate  

that's what we're doing now a must a must  they're not ready yes too green too green  

oh my god already i think maybe it's not  quite the season yet no it's mostly green  

well i still hate one for a few seconds  you'll be returning then they're returning

so

now for a little behind the scenes we got put  into a group with some real party animals who are  

carrying bottles of vodka in their backpacks and  pan pockets so here's one of the men who insisted  

on posing for my camera i don't know if he was  blowing kisses or trying not to throw up but now  

he's on youtube for the world to see now let's do  that once more in slow motion yep there we have it

hello hello update time for a much  needed update what's going on we've  

been doing a lot we went down to the water  beautiful turquoise waters that was stunning  

it's like milky like a milky light blue very very  cool to see yeah yeah and then we went hiking for  

a bit yeah and i think next is sheep hearing  so sheep shearing yeah we're just waiting for  

the rest of the group to make their way down the  mountain slowly yeah and then we're going to learn  

a bit more about Estancia life you're feeling  hungry as well oh yeah yeah definitely ready we're  

both waiting for the barbecue we're exercising  to build up an appetite yes exactly yeah

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a mayor dude because put the [ __  ] to the face because in winter  

how about more snow and the animal is not possible

wow

thanks so much is now dinner time cheers to  a fun visit to anesthesia in the countryside

it really has been fun i feel like we've  got a nice taste of every not everything  

but a lot of what you can do if you're  going to stay you know for a night or two  

yeah a condensed version a condensed version  maybe we'll come back for a few more days yeah  

on another occasion so loving the loving the  wine we are we are enjoying some patagonian wine  

very very nice we've also got our little bread  basket it's arrived we have our chimichurri  

salsa yoda for when the meat gets here although i  also like dipping my bread in it and what else i  

saw some chorizo some sausage on the burrito and i  imagine there will be a salad because that usually  

comes along with some meat so yeah we're just  waiting for the food we've worked up an appetite  

for sure we sure have i'm gonna put a bit of this  here and some bread let us break bread together

for those of you who don't know what  chimichurri is it's basically a whole  

bunch of different spices and herbs  with olive oil some vinegar garlic

it's good it's meant for the meat but it's good  

all right patagonian lamb look at that guys  right over here just grab it directly from  

the sizzling grill steam coming off oh  look at that piece looks delectable guys

that's so unbelievably tender and good you  know what you could use a little salt though  

a little bit of salt maybe a little creamy  jimmy i'll try some chimichurri on it too

look at that loaded up you're you're really not  shy with the chimichu i'm not shy with the chimney  

you just load her up why would you be you win in  argentina delicious okay so sam tried the lamb i'm  

gonna try the chorizo the sausage very good very  tasty i think it needs some chimichu to be honest

you could even turn it into a little  choripan you could with the bread  

open if you're if you're hungry enough i want  to enjoy my meat i don't want to fill up with  

too much bread we got to pace ourselves here  oh my god we thought we were done we should  

have known better we thought it was over there in  argentina the good times keep coming and coming  

and so we've got we've moved on to ribs now ribs  lamb ribs lamb ribs check this out guys wowzers  

i'm just gonna take a bit of a bit off of the  bone here look at that guys i have to say the  

sun is shining on your beard and you look like  extra irish my heritage is showing your hair  

indeed you look wild that's a whole new level  this is the best best cut so far the oil

i'm full but i'll keep going and  last but not least we have some land  

with an argentine classic here we go

very good

and that was our excursion to the estancia  Nibepo Aike we hope you enjoyed the visit  

and we'll see you in the next episode where  we get up close and personal with the glaciers  

it was the best day ever  so stay tuned for that bye

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