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Petrified Forest Natural
Monument
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From Puerto
Deseado to the Petrified Forest by Livio A. D. |
A trip
(Or the wooden stone)
Following the powerful orogenic strength originated
by the Andes, we prepare ourselves to admire the Petrified
Forest Natural Monument in the Province of Santa Cruz
. These breathtaking araucarias of almost seventy
metres high in some cases, fell 150 million years
ago under the implacable force of the nature forces.
At 2.45 p.m. we left Puerto Deseado and we took the
Provincial Road nº 281 towards Jaramillo, located
at 117 kilometres.
Before getting to the mentioned village, we turn to
the west and we took the National Road n º 3.
The choffer was expecting to cross someone who were
returning from the Petrified Forest, but his expectations
were in vain.
At the 2,072 kilometre, after 76 kilometres of paved
road, we got to the Road nº 40 which would lead
us to the mentioned monument ...
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Los Glaciares
National Park
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Adventures
in El Calafate and El Chaltén by Ernesto Rona |
I have travelled to many foreign countries,
either for job or as a tourist. I love being in close contact
with nature; I’m not a “museum’s animal”.
So, if I travel to Paris, I may not visit the Louvre, or if
I go to Madrid and I do not visit the Prado Museum, someone
would say “what a horror!!” I love knowing people,
places, landscpaes...that’s what excites me. Of course,
I love going to the theatre and if I visit London or New York,
I use to go to theatre shows. Anyway, the fact is that I have
been in many places and, as many other people, I had never
visited the South. I had only been in Bariloche and I had
also crossed to Chile, but it was a difficult business for
me to continue southwards. So, I took one of those tours that
carry you to El Calafate and Ushuaia and I could visit the
glacier by taking a ligth aircraft tour. I love flyng on small
airplanes, because flying on big airplanes is like travelling
by bus. It is totally different when you travel on a light
aircraft.It is not as hang gliding, but it’s also exciting...
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