{"id":2557,"date":"2013-04-05T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=2557"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:18:20","slug":"02-10-cueva-de-las-manos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=2557","title":{"rendered":"02-10 Cueva de las Manos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2558\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CUE_0194_1_r7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2558\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CUE_0194_1_r7.jpg\" alt=\"Prehistoric cave painting\" width=\"730\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prehistoric cave painting<b><\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><b>10<sup>th<\/sup>-12<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/b><b>February, Esquel &#8211; Cueva de las Manos<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/10-11-Program_r7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2559\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/10-11-Program_r7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/12-Program_r7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2560\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/12-Program_r7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In front of us was an even longer drive, practically all unmetalled roads, less in the mountains and more in the Patagonian semi-desert. The weather forecast was still good and it would be wonderful if it lasted until we reached the real mountains, although that was very unlikely. We drove the long distance from Esquel to the Estancia Cueva de los Manos, but had another extended lunch barbeque by a river on the way. The weather was very hot along the whole route and continued to be so. Occasionally guanachos or nandus (ostrich type birds) with the odd fox or hare can be seen. The estancia is absolutely in the middle of nowhere, the front drive starts 70km down the dirt road from the last hamlet and is itself 7km long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The total area of the estancia is 460 square kilometers. We spent two days driving in jeeps up and down and along canyons and viewing the cave paintings which date from about 9,000 years ago. They consist mostly paint sprayed round hands, hence the name Cueva de los Manos, and do not compare with the French ones like Lascaux for artistic merit. The caves are in fact really huge overhangs but the canyons are very impressive with reddish rock and lots of cliffs and towers, giving a real wild-west atmosphere. Above the canyons it is very dry with thorny bushes like parts of say Crete, but in the canyons there are rivers with willow trees, rushes and grass, which enables them to be used for cattle ranching. ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2561\" style=\"width: 844px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CUE-Los-Manos-San-Martin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2561\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CUE-Los-Manos-San-Martin.jpg\" alt=\"Cueva de las Manos - San Martin\" width=\"844\" height=\"636\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cueva de las Manos &#8211; San Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10th-12th.February, Esquel &#8211; Cueva de las Manos In front of us was an even longer drive, practically all unmetalled roads, less in the mountains and more in the Patagonian semi-desert. The weather forecast was still good and it would be wonderful if it lasted until we reached the real mountains, although that was very unlikely. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=2557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">02-10 Cueva de las Manos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2539,"menu_order":5243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2557\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}