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Argentina

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-- From 2016/12/19 to 2016/12/24
-- From El Chalten to Loas Antiguos, border CL
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The GPS road tacklog
from El Chalten to Los Antiguos
from 2016/12/19 au 2016/12/24

RN#40, rio Belgrano

Before leaving El Chaltén in the rain and in the fog, I spent approximately 1:30 in a coffee shop by taking a complement of breakfast and by using a good WiFi connection which enabled me to publish the pages of my website as well updating Windows 10 and some software, hurrah an effective connection without interruption is seldom. The RN#40 northwards offers little interest, moreover it is always partly a gravel road. I found a bivouac at the junction of the new RN#40 and the old one at the edge of Rio Belgrano.

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Perito Moreno

The target of Tuesday, December 20th was to visit Cueva de Las Manos registered at the world heritage of humanity. It consists of cave paintings of negative hands giving information to the hunters on the herds of guanacos and the manner of capturing them. The guided visit traverses in more than one hour the cliff of canyon del Rio Pinturas on three kilometers return. My guide was a charming young-lady who placed herself at my disposal while speaking slowly and distinctly so that I understand her comments. Then I sought a bivouac which I found only in Perito Moreno at external of the city.

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Cueva de Las Manos, click on the picture

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Lago Buenos Aires

Perito Moreno did not hold my attention on Wednesday, December 21th; consequently I was going to establish my bivouac for three days at the edge of Lago Buenos Aires (called Lago General Carrera in Chile) before entering Chile. During these three days I prepared the continuation of my journey which takes account of a loading in Montevideo for Europe starting from March 18th. A strong wind agitated the cell of permanent rolling rocking my nights.

During my free times during my trip in South America I read and read again the great classics of the French literature of the 19th century. I drew from a novel by Alexandre Dumas the following quotation:
“The three periods of the life can be summarized as follows: youth, middle age, old age; butterflies, wasps, bats!”

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Crossing the border

I left Argentina on Saturday 24 December at Los Antiguos at the lakeshore of Buenos Aires, 210 meters high. Look at Crossing the border, here