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Puerto Natales, Chile

Just to finish about Torres del Paine, some pictures about chimangos again.
There is so much easy food around with those young ones of any kind everywhere, that you can always find a group of chimango eating somewhere. The most difficult thing to approach them is to be against the wind with the sun in the back for the picture. Not easy, but this time I could get a bit closer.

permalink written by  thetourist on December 6, 2007 from Puerto Natales, Chile
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Don diego de la vega

Puerto Natales, Chile

Do you know your classics?
Well, a special post for don Diego de La Vega who was also... zorro. Zorro means fox in spanish and in torres del Paine you can see grey foxes (Red foxes can also be seen in other parts of Patagonia). Like other animals in the area, they don´t really fear humans and it is a pleasure for the camera to work with such models.


How close do you think I was for this one?

The female was not easy to approach but well, I´m not a fox.

permalink written by  thetourist on December 5, 2007 from Puerto Natales, Chile
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What a landscape!

Puerto Natales, Chile

Still in Patagonia, but on the chilean side, the National Park Torres del Paine is a magical place that simply has everything in terms of landscape and wildlife. The mountains are not part of the Andes and the 3 towers in the middle gave the name to this park (torres=towers).
There are so many things to see that I will divide this topic in different sections. Landscape comes first.
I´ll probably put one of those as background for my computer...





permalink written by  thetourist on December 4, 2007 from Puerto Natales, Chile
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Real ... windy... Patagonia!

El Calafate, Argentina

The last 2 days travelling in the Patagonian steppe were quite interesting with changing landscape. The heat hit the stony road but the wind makes you come back to the reality. Yes, here we are in Patagonia, not in the Seychelles. The wind is so strong that I can not take a picture with a horizontal horizon :-) The tripod I brought for landscape pictures is of no use and is learning to fly together with my camera... not funny.
I don´t want to know how the same wind would be in the winter in such a desertic place. No need to mention that cellphones are not getting any signal here, In case of emergency, you can just try to burn it to make a smoke signal (if you manage to make a fire with that wind)

Heat on the road

Talking about wind, look a that sandstorm


6.0 in style, 6.0 in technical and 6.0 in synchronization

That guanaco came so close that I I didn´t know if he "guana" spit on me or if he was just curious as I was.


This piche looks like a medieval age war machine

Just to be seen on some 2 or 3 kilometers, those red bushes were quite interesting-

Red is an unusual color to be found in the estepa patagonica

permalink written by  thetourist on December 2, 2007 from El Calafate, Argentina
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One of my favourite place

Junin de los Andes, Argentina

From San Martin de los Andes, a one day excursion to the huechulafquen lake. This is now a natural reserve where the natives (mapuche community) try to get back part of what was once them. On the way there is a small "research" center where the reproduce trouts. I also had an interesting hypnotization experience with a lama.

Lama hypnotization!

On the way to the Huechulafquen lake and the Piamun chapel, the view on the Lanin volcan is just great.

View on the Lanin volcano


Huechulafquen lake with black sand beach

The place at the end of the road is just a little paradise to me although it is not "exclusive" as it used to be. The road is now wider and better so that more tourists reach the place. It is still quiet somehow. The lake, this little chapel, that tree with such a strange shape, the wind and also the fact that you would not expect such things at the end of a road going to nowhere. That is just nice

Paimun chapel on the huechulafquen lake

Inside the chapel, the mapuche version is quite something.

Inside the Paimun chapel, a mapuche culture treasure

permalink written by  thetourist on November 29, 2007 from Junin de los Andes, Argentina
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Huemul means Andean deer

San Martin de los Andes, Argentina

It is known in every country: When the sun goes down (or up) it is the best time to see some animals. Today the local huemul came to say hello. They were 3 in fact and were so big (looks like my eyes are more trained to search for bugs, birds and so on) that I didn´t see them.
For one second I felt like beeing in Scotland where I could see all those deers around the house.

ok, this is your last chance for you to take a picture. After that I´m gone


Ok, ok, one more.

permalink written by  thetourist on November 29, 2007 from San Martin de los Andes, Argentina
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Road of the 7 seas, ..., 7 sins, ..., no! ... of the 7 lakes

San Martin de los Andes, Argentina

One possibility to go to San Martin de los Andes is to take the road of the 7 lakes. Everythings looks like some European country wher you have forests, lakes, trouts... Well, everything is just 10 times bigger (not the trout tough)

One of the 7 lakes

permalink written by  thetourist on November 28, 2007 from San Martin de los Andes, Argentina
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Guess the today´s color...

Villa La Angostura, Argentina

On the way from El bolson to Villa La Angostura, the road is surrounded by yellow flowers. There are quite a lot of nice places to stop on the side of the big lakes to enjoy an empanadas picnic...


If only the car would have been yellow too ...

too much yellow can affect your view

permalink written by  thetourist on November 27, 2007 from Villa La Angostura, Argentina
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Anybody can do that!

El Bolson, Argentina

On the way to El bolson, the road is full of those lupine flowers (lupino in spanish, lupin in french).
With such a landscape, I believe that it is difficult to do a bad picture.

permalink written by  thetourist on November 26, 2007 from El Bolson, Argentina
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Back to the Andes

Esquel, Argentina

After the break on the Atlantic side, a long way back to the Andes and the road 40.
The road is not busy, landscape is changing, weather is good (the wind is pushing the clouds away from us) and wildlife is there. A lot of small lakes where Flamengos can be seen too.

Today a piche (armadillo or tatou in franch) could not escape from my camera. This animal has a bony armor shell that protects him in case of attacks (normally he would look like a bowl in that case).

Piche... smaller but smarter and faster than us

Then, close to Esquel, finally the Andes again.

And, as I like unusual(insolite) pictures on the road, ...




permalink written by  thetourist on November 25, 2007 from Esquel, Argentina
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