Hotel El Austral, Perito Moreno
Breakfast in the hotel was slow, but the coffee was good.
As we were packing to leave, we were approached by a Dutch backpacker called Koen, who wanted to hitch a lift. He was doing a gap year around South America, and wanted to head south to El Chalten. We explained that we were going to visit the Cueva de los Manos, and therefore might not reach the desitination that day. He seemed happy to just tag along.
As we were packing to leave, we were approached by a Dutch backpacker called Koen, who wanted to hitch a lift. He was doing a gap year around South America, and wanted to head south to El Chalten. We explained that we were going to visit the Cueva de los Manos, and therefore might not reach the desitination that day. He seemed happy to just tag along.
We drove south and turned off to the caves. The caves are a UNESCO heritage site, and have vivid silohuettes of hands as well as pictures of guanacos, lizards and hunters. One of the hands had 6 fingers. The oldest were done 9,000 years ago.
6 fingered hand painting.
The cave was in a canyon that was green in the bottom.
On the rocks above the cave there was a cheeky vizcacha watching us.
We stopped at Bajo Casracoles for petrol. It was a very small settlement, and basic.
The road was virtually ripio all the way, and there was very little traffic. Maybe a car every half hour. It had also rained and it had made the road muddy and slidy.
The grey blob is a nandu
Guanaco
We were flagged down by a minibus driver, who wanted to know if we had overtaken another minibus on the way. We had.
Long evening shadows
As it was getting dark, and it would take too long to get to El Chalten, we stopped off in Tres Lagos and hired a cabana (self catering cottage) for the night. It was considerably cheaper than a hotel, and very new.
We cooked a meal with basic provisions from the store and talked with Koen who is studying to be an aeronautical engineer.
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