18th January 2015 – Coyhaique to Los Antiguos (Argentina)

Today we have a big day’s drive and a border crossing into Argentina, only 280km but apart from the first 96km the rest is on dirt.  Some of the roads were quite smooth and we could do 80k/h, but the majority were very badly corrugated with many pot holes and we were only doing 30k/h, however the scenery made up for the bad roads.  Although the day was a mixed bag weather wise, drizzly rain, overcast & sunny the mountains, rivers, lakes & vegetation were stunning and in stark contrast to each other.  Our route took us around Lake General Carrera on the Carretera Austral (Route 7).  I’ll let the photo’s do the talking today. The border crossing didn’t present a problem just a formality, no one was interested in looking into our cars.  We did discover at dinner that the Mendoza Malbec is a lovely wine, but we may need to extend our study just to be sure that we got our initial diagnosis correct!