Check your car, fill the fuel tank to the maximum, pock extra amount of the drinking water, start early… In Tacka village (yes, there is petrol station) we said goodbye to the legendary RN40 road heading east. Road 25 crosses Argentina west to east. it goes through uninhabited demi-desert territories to the coast of Atlantic. It is a long way… I was a little bit afraid reading about a number of the holes in this road.
Yes, first part to Paso de Indios was boring , even depressing. We saw one passing car only every 30 minutes and the landscape was monotonous. Many lonely, abondoned farm houses in the middle of nowhere. In the little, lonely settlement of Paso de Indios they have now the fuel… But after Paso till Las Plumas the landsczpe is like in Arizona with cliffs, rock formations, canyons. Great to see! Then after Plumas (some 20 kms of gravel detour there) RN25 bacame flat and semi-deserted again. We did it! After 9 hours we reached Puerto Madryn on Atlantic coast. RN 25 is in the better shape then I expected – they repaired many holes (but no bumps) but it is still the challenge…
