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Flying objects

San Carlos, Argentina

The road has always someting to offer. When the landscape is not at his best (2 big cities today, San Luis and Mendoza), the fauna is there to make you open your eyes like a kid (or father) with his new electric train.
I don´t have picture of everything I saw, but I´m quite successfull with condors. This one took me 30 minutes to be so close that they finally decided to say good bye.

checking both sides
It looks like the bigger the bird is the smaller distance I can approach.
Those little aguilas (eagle) are very easy to see but difficult to have in a decent picture... when flying,

Aguila flying
but by eating...

Aguila´s breakfast time

Those ones are more peacefull. On this road I saw thousands of those little butterflies. They just didn´t want to stay for the picture.

Butterflies on my way

My favourites, the condors

2 brothers
... flying
and attacking me
... just a joke!!
And to finish a chimango (don´t know the translation till now..)

Chimango (still quiet)




permalink written by  thetourist on November 17, 2007 from San Carlos, Argentina
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This it is all yellow and white

Chos Malal, Argentina

Colors, altitude, climate, animals, all is changing here! Now look how yellow looks like with some white in the background

Flower power

This one has no yellow, but now you have an idea how look like a siesta in the shadow.

Siesta time

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Leaving temporary the road 40

Esquel, Argentina

First, my apologies for the lack of news lately. It is quite difficult to find a place to upload pictures, so you may get all the missing posts when I will be back in Buenos Aires or Europe.
Today a big part of the ruta 40 was just ripio (stones) without anybody during 450 (talking about humans). At some point I crossed the way of a small train for tourists called Trochita. It is not the season so they were testing it and checking the track.

Trochita crossing my way on the old Ruta 40

The guy was quite surprised to see someone here I think...

Ché! Que tal?

Then I crossed the way of somebody else.... very surprised too... me , this time

Hehe, after seeing me, this guy will not do camping anymore!!

Tomorrow I will leave the road 40 to go to Puerto Madryn to meet some friends and show them some places I know and then continue my journey back on the ruta 40.

permalink written by  thetourist on November 21, 2007 from Esquel, Argentina
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Life of the pinguins

Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Not on the ruta 40 anymore but on the east coast to see 2 highlights on the Valdes peninsula (try to find a map, the shape of it is quite specific).
The weather has also changed (now I´m in the "real" Patagonia where wind make you feel like someone is playing with a huge ventilator turning it on and off so that you don´t get use to the speed of it)
The main city is Puerto Madryn and around 160 km south, there is punta tombo, one of the biggest natural reserve of magellan pinguins. They are around 70-80 cm tall and have this caracteristical white stripe around the neck. The breading season just started. You can just watch them and take a lesson of life. I choose a nice couple (Nestor and his wife Nestorita) to show you around. In case you go there, just ask for them in case you can not recognize them from the other couples.

Hi, my name is Nestor the pinguin...

this is my wife Nestorita and take care, YOU! I´m very jealous!!

Pinguins are very friendly but don´t put your finger, that may hurt...

... and I have nice teeth

I observed 1 or 2 eggs per couple with some births already and obviously Nestor Junior is very hungry

Foooooooood!!!!!

While Nestorita is feeding the children, Nestor is doing some exercise with a guanaco in the background that just don´t care.

Daily pinguin gymnastic in the morning

Not so funny but life´s reality. Those seabirds just steal everything they can. The little eagle is just queeing to get the rest of it, just in case...

Mine.... mine.....

Sorry for the comment below, I could not resist!

We definitely need to change our deo...

permalink written by  thetourist on November 23, 2007 from Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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Speachless in Puerto piramides....

Puerto Piramides, Argentina

What was not possible to do yesterday (the harbour was closed due to strong winds) is possible today. Inside the valdes peninsula, there is a little place called Puerto Piramides where you can see a lot of animals depending of the season you come. The whales (ballena Franca austral (baleines a bosses in french)) season is just finishing now so got lucky to see one mother with her child. They stay in the peninsula around 5 months per year and are resting there. The young get borned this year. He( or she) will stay one year with his "little" mummy. During the year it is possible to see in the same place seals, sea elephants, orcas, dolphins. This place is very famous to see orcas while they attack young seals directly on the beach. There was a famous one called Mel known to be a good hunter.
I have to say that whales are very curious and basically they are coming to see us closer. Therefore one can understand why it is just so easy to kill them. How do I say in japanese: "Please do not kill whales for "research" anymore" ?

Whales don´t throw water, it is just the result of when they breath if some water is staying above them. It makes a very powerfull and metallic sound. The marks they have on their head are unique so that is is possible to identify them.


Mother with her child coming to us

mother and child

In the background, the cliffs look like some pyramids. The name of the village comes from this.

Punta norte in the north of the peninsula where you can see some seals and sea elephants but they come later in the season

Punta norte in the Peninsula Valdes

What could I do today ???

permalink written by  thetourist on November 24, 2007 from Puerto Piramides, 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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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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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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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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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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