som

Argentina

fr
-- From 2016/09/26 to 2016/10/02
-- From Jesus Maria to Villa General Belgrano
img









The GPS road tacklog
from Jesus Maria to Villa General Belgrano
from 2016/09/26 au 2016/10/02

Alta Gracia

From Jesus Maria, Monday, September 26th was public holidays in Argentina. All stores were closed including Carrefour in Cordoba except McDo where I took a complement of breakfast to publish the pages of my website. I continued my way towards Alta Gracia. At the entrance of the city I stopped at the kiosk of Tourist Information to collect booklets. The city is made proud of three celebrities, a revolutionist Ernesto Guevara, known as El Che, a composer Manuel de Falla and a sculptor Gabriel Simmonet called Gabriel Dubois. These three personalities have each one their museum required passage of the city visit, open in this Monday. Of course I made the tour as from 15:00. The museum of "Che" is the best visited and the most organized with objects having belonged to him. The hostess gave me a French file whom tells his story since his childhood, his studies of medicine and with his journeys in South America before his meeting with Fidel Castro Ruiz and his exploits of revolutionist in Cuba, Congo and Bolivia where wounded he was assassinated by a Bolivian soldier. I am not an aficionado of "Che", but I must recognize that he was a man of conviction. He went until the end of his convictions, witness the last letter to his wife and his four children. The museum Manuel de Falla is a Spanish composer born in Cadiz in 1876. He emigrated in 1939 in Argentina at Cordoba then in various cities to be established finally in Alta Gracia where he died in 1970. The museum is decorated of some cartoons of the composer and of which that below of the most famous composers. Finally the museum Gabriel Dubois exhibits works of the sculptor, primarily ceramics and terracotta. In the garden a counterpart of the monument dedicated to Marie Louis Roland. While arriving I had found a spot of bivouac in Parque Frederico Garcia Lorca where I remained two nights.

Three museums, click the picture

img

On Tuesday morning I explored the Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuitica y Casa del Virrey Liniers. The rooms present furniture primarily from 19th century posterior to the occupation of the site by the Jesuits as well as liturgical objects. Two parts are particularly remarkable, Ecce Homo and a painting of the 18th century, Peru origin. Being next the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Merced of baroque style was built from 1723 to 1762.

Estancia Jesuitica y Casa del Virrey Liniers, Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Merced, click the picture

img

Villa General Belgrano

Wednesday, September 28th was a gloomy day with an accident on the road skirting the Los Molinos artificial lake. It is not narrow but the passing of trucks poses problems, witness the accident below. The passing of the bus in descent with the truck in rise exploded the panes of the bus. At whom is the fault? The truck had priority while going up, but here in South America nobody respects this priority. Moreover my experiment of the road showed me that the bus drivers have a timing to respect, they drive at the maximum authorized speed crossing the double continuous lines. The truck drivers are not without fault. At all events the travellers on the side of the accident must have a great fright with the noise of the explosion and the pieces of glass. Villa General Belgrano will not leave me a great memory. Admittedly it is a typically German city with its bars with Germanic beer and its bierbauch. After some pictures and a city map I went my way to find a bivouac at the edge of the water of Rio Los Reartes.

img img
Ruta-#5
img img
Exploded panes

Visit of the city, click the picture

img

La Cumbercita

On Thursday, September 29th I went to the center of the village of Los Reartes to gather booklets at the T.I. I learned that there is a WIFI connection close to the church. Bingo, it has a good speed. Then I went to Cumbercita where two disappointments expected me. The first it is necessary to leave the car in a carpark, crammed, the second I parked my truck at the entrance with buses. But half an hour after the sky fell on my head, in the clouds at 1416 m of altitude.

img img
img img
img img
Los Reartes
img
Ruta-#273
img img
Bivouac La Cumbrecita

Los Reartes

On Friday morning September 30th I was always in the clouds with little hope that the sky cleared. I decided to go down to Los Reartes again to use the good WiFi connection in front of the church. I benefitted from it to update Windows 10 as well as the various bases of virus signatures. Of course I threw an eye on my bank account as well as the payments of my taxes and with my e-mail box. Then I made a press review to note that it was always the same mess in France. I returned to bivouac at the edge of water.

On Saturday, October 1st after having used the WiFi connection during all the morning I went to Villa General Belgrano around midday to attend the procession representing the various nations of the emigrants in Argentina. It was a colourful folklore with thundering music, blech musik. I returned for the last time to my bivouac at Los Reartes.

Oktoberfest, click the picture

img

Villa General Belgrano, Camping La Florida

Again on Sunday, October 2d I passed a good part of the morning in front of the church of Los Reartes to use WiFi connection. Then I went to the Camping La Florida for my Sunday ablutions as well as the full of drinking water. The owner, of German origin, proposed to me to take part in the Sunday parrilla, I accepted well readily. The reunions started around 15:00 to go until 19:00. The participants were all from Germany…. Of course the conversation was… in German.

img img

Camping La Florida, click the picture

img