Unusual geographic features concur in Valdéz Península, thus providing the ideal scenery for the proliferation of several unique botanical and zoological species.
Year after year hundreds of rights whales cruise about the southern seas to seek shelter in the still waters of the Nuevo and San Jose gulf during their breeding season.
Forty-tons massive bodies swim tamely along the boats, within hand reach, or breach up in the air only to splash back into the ocean, before the astonished eyes of the visitor.
Thousands of elephant seals roam about miles of beach on the east side of the peninsula.
Rock, sand and gravel lend the ideal setting for the only world's land colony of these impressive mammals, whose bellowing echoes on the pristine fossilized sea-beds heaped up into hundred-feet-high cliffs.
Sociable, shuffling to and from, Magellan penguins arouse a feeling of tenderness.
Punta Tombo is the scene where, every, every spring, hundreds of thousands of birds return is search of - often - the same burrow. Although whales, elephant seals and penguins would suffice for the area to become internationally famous the list doesn't end there. Killer whales, dolphins, sea lions and a wide variety of birds crowd the sea-side. Guanaco, rhea, fox, cavy, armadillo, tinamou and large number of waterfowl occupy the different space of the ecosystem.
Visiting the Chubut River Valley up to Ameghino Dam is a new exhilarating sensation. The foliage paints the landscape with changing colors as the seasons go by.
Now and then, in the midst of exuberant plantations, the silhouette of a Welsh-blooded farmer stands as a testimony of a long-standing culture, as old as the well-known "Welsh tea", a tradition brought in by the settlers in 1865.
Leavings from Puerto Madryn
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