According to the plan we were supposed to cross the desert pampas all the way to the coast on routa 12, a 900km stretch of wide dirt trail. As the temperature dropped to almost zero at night and it started raining, a three day boring dirt ride didn’t sound so good. Then we found out that routa 25 (250km south of us thru the snowy Andes) is almost certainly paved by now, and we immediately drove there.
It turned out to be an amazing drive, full of wildlife (we saw Guanacos, Flamingoes, Hawks, eagles and vultures). The desert around us was full of water, small meltwater lakes and marshes full of water birds, and sheep, lots of sheep. Along the Chubot river we saw amazing rock walls without names, in Israel they would’veo been a national park, here they are inconvenient.
We also had the sky half full of rain, which gave us a rainbow for the last 400 km.
Archive for November 4th, 2010
Crossing the pampas eastwards
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