largest country in the world. South America has the fifth (Brasil) and the eighth largest countries in the world. It is quite a vast and diverse continent.
Anyway, I met back up with my friend Katja here in El Bolson and then went 30 minutes south to Lago Puelo. We went backpacking for 3 days up to the El Motoco refugio and then climbed up to Roca del Tiempo. We hiked along the Motoco river - the inferior, medio and superior (lower, middle and upper), hiked in 2,500 year old forests, lakes, mountains and of course glaciars. Roca del Tiempo was 2,020 meters (about 6,000 feet) and it had some snow on it. In Argentina, they have a bunch of refugios where you can sleep inside or camp. Luis was our caretaker at the refugio and he was an excellent woodcarver. Besides stumps, he also carved small fairies and people out of twigs as well as some beautiful signs. I loved how they use recycled cans as trail markers here. They used both the lids as well as main body of the can flattened with painted arrows on it.
Across several water crossings, they had these crazy suspension bridges. Indiana Jones??!! These pictures help depict some of the craziness but there were gaps two and three times as big as the gaps shown. Sorry but I was too busy trying to cross them instead of taking pictures. Some of these passarellas are 100 - 200 feet above a rushing river. Crazy. I think I had to scream and laugh at the same time as I went over these.
Overall, some great hiking.
Oh Laura, those bridges! How old are they? Glad you passed safely!
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