We left El Bolson with heavy hearts as we had really taken to the place, but we headed back on the road with our next destination in mind, El Calafate, and Los Glaciares National Park, yippee! However to get there we had to endure one of our longest and bumpiest journeys so far, 46 hours down the infamous Routa 40, the longest road in Argentina, which goes from south to north, more than 5000 km. By the end of the journey we felt we had seen a fair whack of it, or as much as we could spy through the muddy windows. A late night departure and soon we were making our way on the bone-shuddering road. We are well used to the long bus journeys by now and the bewildering, seemingly pointless amount of stops
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