Posts Tagged With: ruta 40

Today we started our journey along the Ruta 40 in Argentina.  Starting in Bariloche we drove south through El Bolson to Esquel.

To encourage tourism to this part of Argentina, there has been a program of paving the Ruta 40 which parallels the backbone of the Andes from north of Bariloche to the border with Chile near Puerto Natales, however we will only drive as far as El Calafate so in total about 1500km.

Luckily this part was all paved, as we head further south we will start to encounter parts of the gravel road and we have already started to notice that the towns become less touristy, and the answer to Hablas ingles? is now normally no.  This will only increase as we reach the more remote areas.

So views from the road:

The town of El Bolson where a market is held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays in the Plaza Pagano called Feria Artesanal.  Here everything has to be handmade and you can find lots of local foods, wooden cutting boards, jumpers, belts etc etc

So now we head into the remote part of Patagonia, where internet and mobile reception is non existent.