2018-05-17 Day 351 Thu

John drove up the mountain to the pass. Supposedly the highest pass on a national highway in the world 4960m altitude.

We stopped and took some photos. A walk would have been nice but there was a sharp wind blowing and it was too cold for a walk…

 It was a fast road up but as I drove down it reminded us a bit of the Bolivian roads.

Narrow, windy and steep.

Very glad that we did not meet anyone on the downhill but we have seen no vehicle since turning onto routa 40.

Here we sadly say goodbye to the mountains and start our downhill trek.

 Never know whats around the next corner?

 At a lookout we spoke a to a family from Nuequen in the middle of Argentina whose claim to fame is running the most southern chook farm!

Leaving the Parque Nacional Los Cardones John had a long and winding dirt road down. From 3350m to 1400m altitude.

The orange road was more like a white road with parts quite windy and slow but neat hills around. Lots of horses

and cows on the road.

We retraced our northerly route to the south for 18km to Doronel Moldes before turning east to the dam on rio de Los Conchas and finding a camp close to the gates to the dam wall.

290km