From West to East. From El Calafate to Rio Gallegos , 320 km of pure steppe. Without trees, only grass, yellow, combed by the wind, grazing sheep, rheas fleeing before the engine noise and guanacos looking but not frightened. Ushuaia last season before I went there for close to penguins , I had them at my feet. 
Rio Gallegos, from whence cometh name I did not know why it is called, I guess that by the early settlers. Modern buildings, wide streets, paved and inhospitable coast, do not ramble or god. House of Spain, Galicia Bank or restaurant and the Granary. Young population, there is hardly grandparents, now in growth due to the exploitation of oil and gas. The State builds houses almost free to attract population. No more. Is an intermediate station to go to three of the cardinal points, east, only the Atlantic.
Universe solitary sheep when the sheep biting not only the short grass to eat but literally start killing the earth. And that's a problem . Years ago, at the beginning of colonization sheep, depleted soil,
put too many sheep per hectare and were left without grass. They leveled the ground hard and Patagonia, where he had set fire to grass understory. All through the grass. Today not fit more than one or two sheep per km2. There is grass and we are talking about a higher extension to Spain and Portugal combined. Sheep do not run in herds and in our land, they move freely defined areas and in small groups, no shepherds, a gaucho only the will to look for when the time comes to shear. 200 a day a good one, Take that! 
far The Condor of the Andes from Rio Gallegos to Cabo Virgenes where the penguins are 90 km of gravel road (track) full of potholes, songs that break the windshield and tortured by a chill wind. Almost the entire route is within a room, a large estate, 200,000
hectares belonging to the Benetton family, the largest landowner in the country with 930,000 hectares exclusively, the Condor Estancia , where they share territory sheep (the tailor) and oil wells (The Argentine government). Far stay, the town (residence of the landowner), the barracks and shearing sheds, the true center of the farms because it is where the wool is removed. For several years no single Benetton store in Argentina and the Mapuche lands you claim stolen. 
Patagonian Fireplaces So that, no matter the combustion material, the way hache is studied so that no vacuum is formed before the fierce winds of this area, otherwise return all the smoke inside . You can see them both for individual heating systems (see photo) and general over the rooftops.
Penguins
hot water I wanted to see them. So legendary, so funny, so unique. And not afraid of human presence, although some cautious steps away. Only seen in the Southern Hemisphere. Those who live here are called Magallanes, a species that lives in the ice, penguins to
them like hot water over the winter and up to southern Brazil. And my life thinking that only treading ice, oh ignorant of me! It is not the only species. In Cape Virgins, where I am, there is a great community, most of Argentina take 20 days without food, squalid without entering the water. Are changing the coat, as every year, enabling them to swim without getting wet. Young people have already left northbound, there are adults in three weeks leave these cold latitudes, in six months again, go up the beach and went into the field, recognize their nests prayed in the woods and give birth. The cycle of life. 
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