Ruta 40

At last I got on the bus at 6.45am yesterday morning... The trip was two day long (yes, on the bus). The landscape was not as boring as I would have thought (I had been told several time "Patagonia is the same all the way long, steppa, and some rabbits or flamingos"). It was also a real adventure since the road is unpaved most of the way. A rock literraly destroyed one of the bus window after 6 hours on the first day (so we had to stop about 30 minutes to tape the whole thing).

A couple hours after that, the petrol tank fell on the ground (which meant another hour stopped on the side of ruta 40). The number of cars we saw passing during this hour would fit on the fingers of one hand!

The good thing about this second stop is that it occured right during sunset! We then arrived at the hostel in Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz at 11pm.

After a really good night of sleep, we left at 10am for the another 700kms offtracks... The scenery was changing a lot. To the fans of beep beep : I DID see roadrunners!!!

The arrival on El Chalten was fantastic : another wonderful sunset, this time with mountains in the background....

PS : I am writing all this from El Calafate, and my computer is really bad, so I just picked up randomly some pictures (the preview is worse than the one on the mini-screen of my camera!).