Quick summary of the past month

Hey guys, its been a while since i´ve last written and i apologise profundly for that. augusto and me have been hiking and hitching through quite isolated areas with no access to internet whatsoever...but here are a few pictures of our past 4 weeks of travelling the mid-west of argentina. stories will follow as loading the pics takes half an eternity...

Chos Malal

one of those sunsets

passing time on the side of the road with back exercises

and more macrame

crossing the border into chile from zapala to extend my visa

...as you can see the temperatures have changed and here in zapala was our longest wait for a lift - 5 hours with a wind similar to a hurricane - until we were lucky and juan picked us up to bring us to a place called...

Allumine

the casa of claudio (friend of juan´s) where we spent a few beautiful days in the mountains

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... the surrounding landscape

...the painter at work once again

an evening by the fire with Juan and claudio

claudio busy as usual

Villa Pehuenia

after spending a few days with claudio and juan we went further west, to an area not visited by many tourists and with an amazing landscape. having arrived in V.P. we decided to stay in the cabaña of a friend of Claudio´s - what a luxury:

... hiking up to the border with chile

and up and up we went - until finally we were on top of an old volcano from where you had an amazing view around

and another beautiful sunset

... after 3 days in the cabaña we were back camping - luckily with beautiful weather untypical for this time of the year

view from the carpa

happy breakfasting

the professional asador - ´argentinian barbecuer´

hiking 20km from villa pehuenia to moquehue where we are at the moment. in the middle we decided to camp on the shores of a lake and received a few visitors in the morning 

the daily chore of making a fire to warm ourselves and make coffee

araucarias - ´monkey puzzle trees´ - which are typical for the region and at this time of the year grow delicious pine nuts which we collected and roasted in the fire - what a treat

the hike continued

... by now temperatures at night have dropped below zero - hence the wrapped up augusto ;o)

trying a bit of ´professional´ - fishing

and with success - a wild salmon - which we devoured greedily with 2 guys on whose grounds we are camping at the moment - gonzalo y carlos

...it doesnt look yummy but it was the most delicious meal ever!!!

Comments

[Daddy]

...the rest of the STORY ?!?!?

Where is everybody ?!?!?

[Daddy]

...your continuing adventure.
Myrna, good to read and "see" from you again.
Love
Daddy