From Puerto Madryn to the south - Sept 2006
We take the road in direction of Punta Tombo, where the largest colony of penguins live. We leave the N3 a little bit too late and the road is completely dark...At the end of the road, we arrive in front of a barrier, behind are some houses… There is a light, Daniel knocks on the door. An American (scientist of NY) explains that it is too dangerous to stay here during the night...there have been problems in the past. Daniel insists, since we cannot go back for 2 hours on this dark road... finally he proposed us to sleep in the Ranger's house.Great! All the night long we hear the thousands of penguins, but we will not see them before the next morning ... It 's amazing to be able to visit the park alone... without any tourist...
We decide to leave the coast for the interior of the country, direction Sarmiento. We reach Sarmiento by a road full of oil machines… strange spectacle, the machines go up and go down in a perpetual movement. When we arrive in Sarmiento, it rains, the vehicle is full of mud and we are a little K.O. especially by discovering a city which appears not to be at all attractive… people also are not at all nice ! At least the once we met...
The following day, the weather is better and we drive in direction of the bosque petrificado, a site of a petrified forest. The trees were changed into stone 60 million years ago… We discover these rest of trees in a fantastic scenery.
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