Day 19 (278 km)
Left Natales for the Argentinian border going
north towards NP Torres deL Paine about 65 km away on a beautiful new paved
road. The park is the main attraction in the area and considered the eighth
wonder of the world and is a mekka for hikers in the high Andes! We decided not
to go and entered Argentina instead on a desolated dirt road by a border post
called “Cerro Castilla” and 15 minutes later, we were 2 stamps in our passport
richer again. The weather was very nice today with lots of sun, dry and warm
walking and cool on the moto and not too much breeze.
To
get to Route 40, we had to do another 10 km on ripio and then the (in)famous
Route 4o ( more as 5000 km long from the Bolivian border to Cabo Virginas ,
just south of Rio Gallegos on the Atlantic ocean) showed up and went north on a
brand new paved road towards Calafata 200 km away. About halfway, we had
another 60 km ripio and on the junction was a very lonely gas station
and
around 4 pm we entered Calafata, a very
touristic small town and this place was the base for all the Glaciar parks 80
km more to the west and the most well-known was called “Perito Moreno” we are
going there tomorrow! Calafata was also situated on the south shore of one of
the famous lakes Argentina has, “Lago Argentino”
Found a motel like hotel with a nice courtyard and were able to park the
bikes in front of the room and decided to stay 2 nights. Walked the busy mean
street later that evening and this village was full of tourists and this was
still considered low season!
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