CARRETERA AUSTRAL
Preparing for our honeymoon....
Posted on 14th Feb 2016
Our one month anniversary and preparing for our honeymoon. We are off down the Carretera Austral. We have no set itinerary but hope to make it down as far as Torres del Paine and also explore sections of Argentina's 'Ruta 40' road that run parallel to the Andes mountains.
The Carretera Austral is perhaps the most spectacular road in the world. If there is another that provides access to nearly 20 national parks (with as many as five new ones in the making), several national reserves, two of the world’s largest private parks with full public access (Pumalín and Patagonia), as well as wild and wide open landscapes, soaring mountains, lakes, glaciers, forests and fjords, then I would like to know where it is. Having travelled to many parts of the world, I have yet to find anything comparable. It is nothing short of a wonder.
-- Douglas Tomkinson (Founder of clothing company The North Face)