Berny's photos

west of Perito Moreno and Lago Buenos Aires - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Straight traces show us the way on the dirt Ruta 40, which is paved today in this section - and much less exciting and adventurous. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

The production of the model LO 1114 began 1970 in the Mercedes-Benz industrial center in Virrey del Pino in the district of La Matanza. Basis was engine and chassis of the L 1114, which was already in production in Argentina. More than 29000 buses were produced until 1988. While this bus type was destined for the home market, it was also exported into other Latin America countries like Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia. scanned slide - Minolta X700

The PiP shows Ruta 40 north of Rio Mayo - scanned slide, Minolta X700

noth of Rio Mayo - scanned slide, Minolta X700

sleeping mountains under the duvet - scanned slide, Minolta X700

the Patagonian way of clouds - scanned slide, Minolta X700

UFO with jetstream - scanned slide, Minolta X700

see description at the image before, click on keyword Esquel to see more! - scanned slide, Minolta X700

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. If you want to see more from Esquel, click on the keyword! - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The next lake of this Argentinean lake region, the last one for a while ;-) All the recent lake photos have been taken in the "Parque Nacional Los Alerces". Alerce or Fitzroya is a monotypic genus in the cypress family. The single living species, Fitzroya cupressoides, is a tall, long-lived conifer native to the Andes mountains of southern Chile and Argentina, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests. Common names include alerce, lahuán (Spanish, from the Mapuche Native American name lawal), and "Patagonian cypress". The genus was named in honour of Robert FitzRoy. scanned slide, Minolta X700

This region of Argentina is for lake-lovers ;-) scanned slide, Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Confluence of the rivers south of Lago Verde. scanned slide, Minolta X700

Bridge downstream of the confluence of Rio Mendez and Rio Arrayanes. The view in the PiP is from the bridge and goes upstream, on the left side is Rio Arrayanes, on the right side Rio Mendez, coming from Lago Menéndez. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Cerro Piltriquitron (2284 m) seen from the little Hospedaje Steiner in El Bolsón, owned by two sisters from Burgenland/Austria (they immigrated long ago and their husbands have died long ago)..... - scanned slide, Minolta X700

And we arrive at the next beautiful lake of this region, the "Lago Puelo" in the province of Chubut. The background mountain is Cerro Tres Picos (2492 m). The PiP's are from a visit 10 years later in 2010. - scanned slide, Minolta X700