Paso Cardenal Antonio Samoré, CL/AR
On Wednesday, January 25th I presented myself at the border post of
Chile around 7:30, but I learned that it opened only at 8:00. The line
of vehicles was very long; waiting at the counter of the immigration
then of the customs was consequently. The border post of Argentina is at
half an hour of road after the crossing of Paso Cardenal Antonio Samoré
1305 meter high. Of course the same queue was in front of the counters.
The whole of the procedures and the road lasted two hours.
Ruta #40, layby in front of Lago Nahuel Huapi
I had wished to stop in Villa Angostura Argentinian side. It is a very
tourist village. The main street was crammed by vehicles, I did not find
a parking bay. After having turned in the adjacent streets I continued
my road in the direction of Bariloche. Finally I found a bivouac
vis-a-vis the lake on a parking area.
Mirador Lago Steffen
On Thursday, January 26th the visit of Bariloche was short with
Central Civico whose architecture is of the Central Europe origin.
Of course I made the harvest of documentation in Oficina de Turismo.
Then a stop at the La Anonima supermarket to buy fruit and vegetable
whose importation is prohibited. The target of the day was Lago
Steffen enchased in mountains whose tops are snow-covered. I
bivouacked at the watchtower which overhangs Lago Steffen y Martin
with 984 meters of altitude. The temperature climbed in the cell at
35°C.
Bariloche & Lago Steffen, click on the pic for
opening the gallery
RN#40, Lookout
Friday, January 27th was not an ostentation of visit. I had located
Lago Epuyen in the south of Bariloche and of Lago Steffen to remain
all the end of the week there; alas the lake was reserved only for a
day parking without possibility of bivouac. Disappointed I
returned again northwards and I stopped at a lookout on the left
side of the RN#40. Nothing amazing. Admittedly the panorama of the
mountains is dramatic, but I always seek bivouacs at the edge of
water…
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| Bivouac RN#40 Lookout |
Mirador Lago Steffen
On Saturday morning I attended a fairy-like ocher-color sunrise on
the mountain opposite of the lookout, picture on the front-cover as
well as in the gallery of the horizontal menu above. Having an
appointment at the Allianz agency on Monday morning at Bariloche to
inform the extension of the insurance of my vehicle, I decided to
spend the weekend at the lookout Lago Steffen being ensured of peace
for these two days.
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| On the road again, RN#40, snow-capped summits |
