Caves of the hands - Höhlenmalereien

After we had more than just groceries for Flora's dinner yesterday in the supermarket, namely provisions for our next station, which should be a few hours away, we had to abandon our plan. We simply didn't have enough time. Therefore, we had to say goodbye to the glacier in Calafate, which we would have loved to see.

The sadness only lasted a short while, as today we visited another highlight of our trip. The cave paintings we visited are approximately 2000-3000 years old and thus the most important in South America. It was very impressive! Once again, without signage and without a paved road, we still managed to find our destination.

Since the tour took place every hour on the hour and we arrived at 1:00 pm, we had to hurry so as not to have to wait another hour. Although we had to go back to the car a few times, which was parked at the top of the mountain, to pack the wallet, socks, closed shoes, or water bottles, we were still able to join the tour. Another guide accompanied us to the ongoing tour. Luckily, the visitors who participated in our tour were already quite old, so we caught up with them quickly. Our guide had a headset on, which amplified her voice throughout the mountains. It was especially funny that she didn't take off the headset even when she was only talking to us. The other participants had already left early. Only we stayed on the tour until the viewpoint.

After the amplification, we continued on to Los Antiguos. Heike had already reserved accommodation there. The drive there was lined with dead llamas hanging over a fence. These were the llamas that got caught on the fence when trying to jump over. The children were very fascinated by the dead llamas, but not in the way we thought. They counted the llamas and made it into a game. Whoever saw the most dead ones won. They even had to get out of the car to take a selfie with a really macabre one. The children were fascinated by the different stages of decay. On a trip like this, you always get to know new sides of your family.

When we arrived at the last town before the border to Chile, we unfortunately only found two horses. Since we had no reception once again, we went to the nearest store where we could use Wi-Fi. This store sold beer and was called "Good luck". But unfortunately, we didn't have any luck at that moment. Because we couldn't reach the landlord. So we went to the supermarket and bought meat in Argentina one last time for our barbecue.

Since Heike really wanted to stay in this accommodation, we didn't look at any others. So we had to hope that the landlord would eventually get in touch. And he did.

Actually, we wanted to spend the evening by the fire with our children, but instead Heike and Christian spent the evening with three dogs and a kitten. The children played soccer with the landlord's children after the horses were banned from the lawn.

After dinner, we distributed the leftover meat among the animals that were starving. It's really heart-wrenching to see the animals like this. A sad sight that you can't get used to is watching the animals search for food. They tear open garbage bags and rummage through them to find something edible. It's interesting that there seems to be solidarity among the animals. They share the food with each other, regardless of whether they are cats or dogs.