Blogpost 18 - Villa La Angostura to Santiago

Awoke again to beautiful day in Angostura. We new we had a long days driving so we got away early, and in to town to shop for dinner and then to spend our last Argentine Pasos before crossing back to Chile. We also bought 4 sweet treats in a bakery and had a nice coffee in a cafe before heading off. The drive was once again was fantastic scenery and way different than we had expected. We reached the Argentinian border and were processed quickly and back on the road to go over the pass into Chile. It was an amassing road that climbed high up into snow country. The roadside was lined with pumice like volcanic debris from a large volcanic eruption they had in that area less than ten years ago. Large areas of mature trees had died as a result of the eruption. We passed over the top and into Chile but it was a long drive down hill to the Chilean border control post. The documentation went smoothly but their biosecurity control took away most of the food we had purchased for...