We finally got gas. 38 hours later at 10pm we filled up our tank and extra jerry cans, ready to leave first thing in the morning. Here is the ridiculous lineup for gas... it went on basically all around town.
When we left the town, Perito Moreno, we hopped straight onto the infamous Ruta 40. Known widely as a super gnarly road that eats tires we were a little apprehensive, but ready to take it on, as we have seen our fair share of gnarly roads. We were hoping we wouldn't come across some of these speeding trees. I'm sure they could do a number on your vehicle.
The road ended up being okay. A lot of the section we drove was newly paved although sometimes it was actually better to drive in the ditch than n the actual road!
We saw an unbelievable double rainbow that, although i didn't cry over, it was pretty spectacular. It was too huge to get all in one frame.
We were pretty excited to get to the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciers National Parque. Not to be confused with Perito Moreno the town... or Parque National y Reserva Perito Moreno. Luckily we ended up at the correct Perito Moreno and stopped to snap a picture of the first glimpse we got of the massive ice sheet.
From far away it was pretty impressive but for up close it was jaw-dropping. Pictures never do things like this justice, but I did my best. It quickly rose up on our list of highlights on our trip as we watched in awe as chunks of ice calved off and dropped forcefully into the lake creating huge waves and crazy loud cracking sounds.
We ended up poaching some camping within the National Park... Even though it is technically not allowed, no one bothered us and we managed to catch the glacier under a nearly full moon.
We awoke to the sun clipping the peaks of the snowy mountains and we walked down to check out the glacier for the third time. It was amazing to see the different shades of blue in the ice.
One more shot of the glacier. I couldn't stop snapping pictures!
We didn't end up going to the town of El Chalten which is the jumping off point for Mt. Fitz Roy as it was pretty bad weather the day we passed by. But we managed to catch it from a distance!
Man, we've come a long way. I can't wait till we can finally plot the end of the road on the map once we are there!
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