Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Bosque Pertificado
Me in the Dessert with stoned wood,... not really burning it...
A child staarting talking, and not stopping in Spanish, while actually understanding i don´t understand.
An Oasis in the desert: Sarmiento.
Tuesday I made my way to Salmiento to the "Stoned Forrest", which has nothing to do with drugs... This forest was covered by vulcanic ashes and the wood become stones. Millions of years of weather made the ashes go away, not so the stones. It{s in the middle of the desert, really!
However, Sarmiento is a small town like a paradies in the middle of that desert. I had a couple of really phantastic hours there. However, the guesthost could not host me, so I got a lift to Rio Mayo, which is hell! Dont go there!
The R40 trieded me badly, when I tried to hitch-hickthe 120 km to Perito Moreno. About 20 cars in the tfour hours I waited, but all going north. So I rather went back to Perito Moreno, to get away from this place, I dont care where, just far! Again a lift from a nice Argentinien person, who followed my questions consering going south at the petrol station. He brought me with his red italian sportscar 300 km east to Comodoro (where I started the trip to the west), and I got the bus to Pertito Moreno (450 km) in the last minute.
There I stayed three nights, the first under the sky, prodected by two street dogs...