Unexpected amazingness on top of blue skies...

Check out the map, at the bottom left of center you can see Fitz Roy peak in a box of the national park, then I took the red road from there east then north to Perito Moreno... The La Cueva heritage area is to the right on the way north of Bajo Caracoles... 

Then I've continued and crossed the border at Los Antiguos/Chile Chico, a beautiful area on a lake with mountains on the western skyline...

and connected with some other travelers to get a ride heading west... dirt road with inconsistent public transport at this time of lower tourist traffic... so I took the chance to move on though I was sad to have no time to explore this nice little hamlet.  But what an amazing trip we had in store!  An area ripe for educational travel... archaeology, geology, botany, ecology, paleohistory... it was pretty outrageous.  Oh, and the scenery itself, plus a gorgeous blue sky day, well...

Some of the cliffs and views reminded me of the Almafi Coast of Italy... 

and then we stopped in the middle of the bridge (about one or two vehicle lengths wide) to see the Devil's Canyon...

and it just kept on being amazing!

And then we reached Puerto Guadal for a pit stop...

and this was the most amazing market for being in the middle of not much... Kind of like the Study Butte Store or Cottonwood Market...

sledgehammer, dried milk, cut your own winter squash... you name it.

and... maybe the best alfajor (the iconic dessert/sweet treat of Argentina, but apparently good things know no borders...) in the world... I had to take a picture!

Homemade of course, moist buttery biscuity texture-- not dry cookie crumbly like several others I've had, not too much dulce de leche (because then it's too sweet!), coconut, and then, oh my gosh, the perfect hint of lemon... it's a good thing we moved on before I took my first bite otherwise, I don't know if I would have just stayed on or bought all the rest of them on the spot!

Last photos 

before arriving at Puerto Rio Tranquilo on the eastern side of Lake General Carrera that we'd been following for the previous four hours... It's the second largest lake in South America!

The main attraction here is the Capillas de Marmol... the marble chapels which I visited the next morning...

More in the next one!

:)