Life in a different culture
Puerto Madryn is one of the main stops on the Cruise Ship ports. Every summer we receive dozens of these huge ships, filled with tourists who then flood our town for the day before re-boarding and heading off to another destination. The Norwegian Sun is one of the first of the ships to arrive, marking the beginning of the season for this summer.
The Norwegian Sun
On Christmas day we borrowed the family car and took off for a trip around the city. Well, a trip about the main park anyway. Here are some photos of what we got up to…
The San Martin statue on a mountain looking over Mendoza.
A photo to prove that we (um, they) were there.
Paul showing himself as part of the statues in the park.
Me being a statue in the park. Can you tell which one I am?
Resting down by the lake, just before a storm comes over.
Every summer our small-ish little town is inundated with cruise ships. These ships come from the north starting in Brazil and heading to Ushuaia and from the south starting in Chile and heading to Brazil. Every now and then there are international ships travelling around the world too. In every case the ships normally stay just for the day and our streets fill up with the thousands of tourists housed by those huge homes on water.
The normally empty Sunday streets had people today.
Today was one of those days. We had an Argentine ship that came to port today.
The ship at berth will remain only for the day.