This morning Augustino is back in action to take us to the airport for our flight to El Calafate and El Gapon, a working sheep ranch. We arrive easily and a guide picks us up at the airport to drive us the 30 minutes outside of the city to Estancia El Gapon where we will stay for two days. Arriving at 5:30 pm we are given a very nice room with a separate sitting area, and are just in time to sign up for the sheep handling and shearing demonstration at 6:30. Other tourists arrive just for the dinner and show alone, so we all wait expectantly as the Gaucho arrives, complete with jaunty beret, to herd 15 or so sheep around the pasture in front of us. He looks like a ballet master as he signals his two dogs, a kelpie and a border collie, to drive the sheep wherever he wants them to go. Occasionally a sheep breaks free only to quickly be brought back to the herd by his hard working dogs who are enjoying every minute of the chase. After a guided walk through the pastures to the edge of Lago (lake) Argentino we find Calafate bushes with edible berries. They taste similar to our blueberries, and eating one guarantees a return to Patagonia. We all eat a handful. Then we go back to the shed for a sheep shearing demonstration and discussion of the various breeds of sheep and some more history of Patagonia. We've worked up quite an appetite watching those dogs work so hard, and now we head into the banquet hall for a BBQ dinner with lamb, chicken, sausage, and beef with the Argentinian Malbec wine we have learned to enjoy. A local folkdance and tango show ends the evening, and we all roll off to bed.
Kevin got right on our request and had us booked within the week
Linda Cummings
1 day ago
The info on the website was laid out very well. I did some comparisons with other tours and found Adventure Life met a lot of what I wanted in an Antarctica trip at the cheapest price. Requested a quote on Claudia contacted me right away. She answered a lot of questions the I had via email even though she offered to discuss via phone call. I’m more of an email person so appreciated how she accommodated that and answered all my questions. And when I was ready to book, she quickly got the ball rolling with getting our spots reserved on the trip my friend and I wanted. Thanks again, Claudia!
Hazel Araza
1 day ago
(1) great information on the website and throughout all the "materials." (2) Jane Packer is great: knowledgeable, responsive, takes a personal interest and tone, seems to care about the customer as a person not a sale.
Larry Bethune
1 day ago
great people doing a wonderful job to make our voyages happen.
trudy
2 days ago
For our first trip to Costa Rica, Adventure Life designed a tour that meets the interests, ecological and adventure, of our party; but also takes into account our physical limitations sine we are all septuagenarian. We are looking forward to the trip.