Chile-Argentina 2010

seen often, but here in El Bolson

in El Bolson - Hosteria Steiner (the family Steiner immigrated 70 years ago from Austria)

south of El Bolson, ......10 years ago here was pure loneliness, now it's still beautiful, but a new road, boats and a lot of hosterias make another atmosphere.......

it's obvious, who's female and who's male........

the famous Ruta 40 leading south to Tierra del Fuego

La Trochita, (El Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "The Little Narrow Gauge" in Spanish. It is 402 km in length and runs through the foothills of the Andes between Esquel and El Maiten in Chubut Province and Ingeniero Jacobacci in Río Negro Province, originally it was part of Ferrocarriles Patagónicos, a network of railways in southern Argentina. Nowadays, with its original character largely unchanged, it operates as a heritage railway and was made internationally famous by the 1978 Paul Theroux book The Old Patagonian Express, which described it as the railway almost at the end of the world.

see PiP's for variants....... La Trochita, (El Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "The Little Narrow Gauge" in Spanish. It is 402 km in length and runs through the foothills of the Andes between Esquel and El Maiten in Chubut Province and Ingeniero Jacobacci in Río Negro Province, originally it was part of Ferrocarriles Patagónicos, a network of railways in southern Argentina. Nowadays, with its original character largely unchanged, it operates as a heritage railway and was made internationally famous by the 1978 Paul Theroux book The Old Patagonian Express, which described it as the railway almost at the end of the world. read details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Trochita http://www.latrochita.org.ar

PiP in B/W

in Esquel

the "rafting village" at the Rio Futaleufú - the sky was unique