After the Jama Party.

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Don't know what happened, this should have gone on the 14th of Feb!<br />Bless the technology!...just skip and file maybe!<br />
Don't know what happened, this should have gone on the 14th of Feb!
Bless the technology!...just skip and file maybe!

Susques is about 3,200 metres above sea level and I was waking in the night and having to take a few deep breaths to stay alive….but in the morning we were going even higher….this pass is about 4,300 or so…pretty thin air up there…and they say there’s some snow about as well. Hey, lets go! Another mouthful of coca, it does seem to help! And I didn’t inhale!

I stop a few times along the 130 kms to the frontera to just watch the ever closer snow capped mountains, this is very barren terrain, the odd animal, what were guanacos, then llamas are now vicunyas…and signs warn of their propensity for leaping in front of cars! We stop and take some pix of some right near the road.

This is a bit sad too, as its my last hours in Argentina after maybe 10 weeks? Crikey, the longest time in any country on this trip. But Argentina is like 4 or 5 countries, so diverse in geography, cultures everythings, but constantly and consistently, the people have been the real bonus. I was not expecting such generosity of spirit and the endless kindness and hospitality, the ever friendly approaches, the willingness to share and help has been absolutely fantastic.

Por mis amogos argentinos, gracias por todas,.me encanta argentina muchos mas que puedo hablar. Voy a regrassar una dias!! (Desculpe mi espanol)

This high plain just goes on for ever at about nearly 4,000 so its harder to breathe and getting v chilly. The clarity of the air is fantastic, the mountains, now taking on individual shapes, volcanic cones, dozens of them, and I can see the thickness of this range, this is your real Andes, not just the single pass like in the south, but a massive wall of mountains, how any early settler got here is beyond me. The conquistadors had their work cut out, why would anyone want to try and get across here!..God and Gold the driving passions?

In the distance I can see the buildings of the frontera and the road behind, snaking up into what looks like an impenetrable barrier of gigantic snowy peaks!

Jama is the Argentina frontera office and we do the right thing and get clear of them. They are a bit snaky, but maybe understandably, as they are right in the very middle of freaking nowhere. Maybe its a punishment and they are just dropped off here for a week, a month, a year?

Then its off into the real mountains, still good asphalto and sweeping curves, by now the mountains are all around us, individual patterns of snow and rock, smoke coming from one or 2, real volcano country, its getting colder, the grip heaters are on full, I’m quite comfortable, only the thumbs, as usual, feeling the icy wind.

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