Bosques Petrificados

OK just a short message in between: I`ve made it to the petrified forest!!! It was a trip of about 1300km (see the map - the circle from El Calafate to the Bosques Petrificados) in a hired Volkswagen Gol 1.6 (no, no Golf as we know it in Europe) and with that, I drove two days, from which at least 500km on unpaved roads. So the nice white Gol turned into a yellow dusty (also inside) all terrain vehicle. At night, I slept inside, as a cat around the shift and the steering wheel, so I was quite exhausted as I came back in El Calafate yesterday. But very satisfied about seeing these 1500km of pampa, desert, the Atlantic ocean again and THE PETRIFIED FOREST. This is a must to see as a forester I think. It was very impressive! I`ll write more about it when I have the pictures with me! Tonight I`ll travel on to El Chalten to get my holiday rest (I even bought a book...), to hike around in the Andes and hopefully to meet Ale, who has to do some research work there!

Jeroen

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