DAY 30 CHOS MALAL to MALARGUE
(Hotel Don Costa to HOTEL MALARGUE SUITES)
A day of epic vistas travelling close to the east side of the Andes in central Argentina. …and 40 kms of gravel roads . Something these wee Mgs are used to by now in Argentina!
as we drive through the Rio grande River Basin ..with lovely green valley and a few estancias along the way we stopped at the rivers edge for a picnic lunch. A pretty position even if the large flies were a nuisance!
Day 28 ZAPALA to CHOS MALAL 190 m /118ml
(Hotel Hue Melen to HOTEL DON COSTA)
Early start for Ross Ken Mike and Pete as post breakfast they START on Blue B !!! (Note for MG Enthusiasts (*)
They are an amazing MG TEAM……helping to fix the Mgs hiccups anywhere. anytime…..and in the middle of nowhere.
Late start ..great for the Adventures as only left Zapala at 10.30.
Our tea/pit stop was in the middle of nowhere with a 360 degree vista. A commen scenario in central north Argentina. The 8 MGs in the middle of an expansive brown patagonia landscape must make quite a picture of colouyr by the occasional traffic passing by. I call us ‘The Little Rainbow Train”
There are always ‘Shrines of various sizes on the side of the road.. The photo attached shows a few of us girls by the shrine…that interestingly had fresh flowers and a burning candle inside the brick shrine.
(For the MG Enthusiasts – (*) THE Team…Replaced plugs and plug leads; Checked timing; noticed rust on pick up tube so fuel drained and replaced; Switched facer Electronic Pump to a SU Pump and fitted new hoses; ..checked rate of flow 100% ; rotated Coil as ? earthing to body of car?……..Blue B taken for a test drive…and on the road again!) I hope this all makes sense to you!!!
DAY 27 SAN CARLOS de BARILOCHE to ZAPPALA 363 km / 235 ml
( Hotel Design Suites to HOTEL HUE MELEN)
( For MG Enthusiasts – on the road MG team changed the Coil to TD Coil…? )
DAY 25 REST DAY …YES YES YES…!
( at Hotel Design Suites)
DAY 25 ESQUEL to SAN CARLOS de BARILOCHE
(Canela B and B to HOTEL DESIGN SUITES )
DAY 24 GOBERNADOR COSTA to ESQUEL (181 km / 112 ml)
(Hotel Roca to HOSTERIA CANELA)
DAY 23 PERITO MORENO to GOBERNADOR COSTA (360 km / 224 ml)
(Hotel Austral to HOTEL ROJA)
Someone described Gobernador Costa as a one horse town…and how right were they!
DAY 22 EL CHATLEN to PERITO MORENO (582 km / 224 ml)
(Lunajuim Hotel to HOTEL AUSTRAL)
Meet up with Giles Cooper from Queensland in “Troopie” Giles came especially acrioss from Chile to see us. Fun and informative evening!
DAY 21 REST DAY at El Chalten…YEBO!
DAY 20 RIO GALLEGOS to EL CHALTEN (456km – 283 m)
(Hotel Patagonia to LUNAJUIM HOTEL)
El Chalten only founded in 1985, in a rush to beat Chile to the land claim . It is still a frontier town albeit an offbeat one , featuring constant construction, hippie values and packs of roaming dogs ( quote from Lonely Planet)
Cerro FitzRoy (Mt Fitzroy) El Chalten is the original Tehuelche name meaninmg ‘peak of fire’ or ‘smoking mountain’ Perito Moreno and Carlos Moyano renamed it after Beagle’s Captain FitzRoy.
On finding the Petrol Station…..it is a BLUE SHIPPING CONTAINER with a pump! A Classic.
On way a lunch stop at at Estancia la Leona where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid stayed for one months after robbing Banco Rio Gallegos and then escaped to Chile. Our generation friends will remember the movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.!
MG Pan American Highway 2015 