Cueva de Las Manos
The River Pinturas, in the south of the province of Santa Cruz, runs on a canyon of about 170 metres deep. Its walls bear prehistoric paintings made by the Tehuelches 9,000 years ago. These drawings were discovered by De Agostini, a priest, in 1941, and can be found in three different parts of the canyon: eaves, caves and walls.

The motifs are mainly hands, in both positive and negative images, animals, geometric figures, lines, dots and representations of the sun. The colours used are red, yellow, ochre, green, white and black. The paintings cover approximately 200 metres. The caverns are 20 metres in height with entrances of 15 metres per 15 metres. Generally the paintings cover the walls up to three metres, but there are some cases where the ceiling is covered too. The Cueva de las Manos (¨Cavern of the Hands¨) is 88 metes over the river level. It was declared Historical Monument because of its artistic magnificence and because it is one of the main testimonies of the prehistoric hunters that lived in the steppes ten thousand years ago.

Colonia Sarmiento
Colonia Sarmiento a city of more than 10,000 inhabitants in the centre of the province of Chubut, widely known for the José Ormaechea Petrified Forest. Its origins as a colonial town go back to the XIX century when the first Welsh colonists came to Argentina, followed by Lithuanians and South Africans farmers that asked for political asylum. The landscape of the region is composed of a series of plateaux and a group of isolated hills and vegetation composed of small bushes, like the coiron and the chañar. There are few tall trees that grow bent because of the strong winds. Only the river streams that run through the country from west to east seem to alter the arid landscape of the region.

José Ormaechea Petrified Forest
Located near Colonia Sarmiento, this forest is a big reservation of petrified wood, with remnants of logs, branches, leaves, fruits and seeds. These are the world's biggest fossil trees and it is estimated that the original coniferous trees were more than 100 metres tall. The biggest concentrations of mineralised wood can be found in the Patagonia. In the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras the environment was favourable for the development of the forests, and the volcanic activity provided the raw material for the process of petrifaction: silicon. Petrifaction occurs when something organic changes into stone.

When an animal or plant dies it must be covered with earth, ash, sand or mud to create a permeable layer. If the layer is penetrated by water rich in salt or silica, these substances will replace the organic molecules. The whole process may take centuries or millenniums, depending on the volume of water and the minerals available.

Los Antiguos
Los Antiguos is a small town with a population of about 2000 located in the southern edges of Lake Buenos Aires and 64 km away from Perito Moreno. Its valley has a particular microclimate and a very appealing landscape composed of lakes and peaks from the Cordillera de los Andes. The irrigation channels constantly feed the cherry, strawberry and morello cherry plantations and small farms.

Lake Buenos Aires
It has a surface of 2240 km and is South America's second biggest lake, after Lake Titicaca. Its waters are deep blue and flow out to the Pacific Ocean. He landscape surrounding the lake is rather arid, with small bushes, willows and poplars. On the Chilean margin rises the city of General Carreras. Fish like salmon and trout are one of the most important economical resources of the region.

Lakes Pueyrredón & Posadas
Lake Pueyrredón is bigger than Lake Posadas, and like many other lakes of the area it was created from the ice of the glaciers. And it's precisely because of that that it's a very deep lake, with transparent cold waters and many species of fish like the trout and salmon. It crosses the Andes and penetrates into Chile to form the basin of the River Backer, which flows into the Pacific Ocean in the form of fjords surrounded by the magnificent Northern Ice. On the other hand, Lake Posadas is smaller than Lake Pueyrredon and its waters are turquoise rather than blue. This difference in colour is the main characteristic of these two lakes.

Perito Moreno National Park
The Perito Moreno National Park is a natural beauty less visited than other areas of Argentina. Because of this, on his vast, almost virgin, extension nature remains untouched: lakes, mountains, steppe and woods dominated by both flora and fauna. It was created in 1937 and occupies 115,000 hectares on the Northwest of the province of Santa Cruz. The park protects several areas of the sub-Antarctic forests, steppes and transition areas between both ecosystems. Inside the park we find Lakes Belgrano and Burmeister. There's a path that leads to the peninsula of Lake Belgrano, with turquoise waters, flamingos, and ducks and to Heros Hill. Many species of animals live in the park like the comesebo and the cabure. There are also guanacos that share their habitat with pumas, foxes, ñandúes (ostriches)and wildcats.