We can’t deny it. After the Second World War many Germans flew to South America especially Argentina and in Bariloche you find many of their traces mingled into the argentine culture. Cute little „Spitzdachhäuser“, German schools teaching in Spanish, German bakeries that sell at least one kind of integral bread, breweries offering deals including the argentine version of pizza with loads of cheese, chocolate manufactures producing pralines filled with dulce de leche and even the landscape resembles some Swiss features tough the network of lakes and hills is much more impressive than anything I have seen in Europe.
Here we finally got what we came for to Argentina: not the beautiful landscape or the argentine culture, no we came for steak and wine. The recommended restaurant is really popular we Israelis meaning you get huge amounts for a reasonable price but you have to show up early. We came 20 min before the place opened and squeezed in just before a group if 22 Israelis. And than came the difficult part of what to chose. Bife de lomo turned out to be 4 cm thick and tender steaks and the normal argentine portion of 500g sufficient to make our stomachs just about to burst.
To make up for the unreasonable protein intake we went for a bike tour in the National Park the next day. We rented bikes at km 18.6 (kind of an unusual address) which turned out to be good mountain bikes that came in handy on the hilly road (flat was not existent). The views on the lakes are worth every km and you can visit a lot of side tracks, so we actually 5.5 h to cover the 25 km of the circuit.