1- The watch-dog of the Unesco protected sights
1- Guanacos (click on the image to enlarge)
2- Los Manos (the Hands)
3- The Cañjon, plants and water in the desert... the refuge for the native americans in the winter.
After I was a bit unlucky with the N40 and lost a day in Rio Mayo, I missed by one hour the tour to the famous caves "Cuevas de los Manos". This a sight in the middle of nowhere (literally!). So i waited a day, the next expetion did not happen, as one was full, the other guy crashed his car, so i waited another day. Well, as I read "Darwin" on my travel and went to the Dinosaurier museum in Trelow I knew a bit already about the history of this huge landscape of Patagonia. Geographically it is actually quite young. Only when The Pasific platform and the south American Platform hit each other, Patagonia rose from the ocean. It was a jungle for a little while, but when the platforms kept going the Ants lifted and all the rain from the Pacific stopped suddenly. 10.000 years ago the first men came down from northern America. And for any unkown reason they where semi nomadics in Patagonia, hunting Guanacos. The caves are just a huge mysterious. Over a period of almost 9.000 years they printed their weaker hand most are left hands) on the caves. In total about 950. About 5.000 years they starting to paint as well hunting sences, but they never actually used painting for teaching following generations. The last guys greated some "contemporary art", which does not make sense... Maybe they found acid or something wierd to smoke,... they had fired, is what we know.
Well, we don´t know and all the original Patagonias are dead, mordered by the regieme from Argentina. Very bloody...
The canyon is really beautiful! I would love to spend 2 or three weeks with the rangers there. They don´t leave the side, for that timeframes,... the next settlement in this dessert is in a 140 kms distance... and a route with 50km/h maximum speed.
On this tour I met Davide from Milano, with whom I spend some days as we had the same route...
