Thanks to Beth of Wandering Dawgs for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #158.  For this challenge she asks to show “images that show your interpretation of going along a back country road. It can be a road where you walk, go for a bike ride, take a scenic drive, go off-roading in a jeep or four wheeler, or a road you take to get somewhere.”

These photos are from a road trip form Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine National Park in the Patagonia Region of Chile. Puerto Natales is located on Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), a Pacific Ocean finger fjord that is just north of the Straits of Magellan.

  • Seno Última Esperanza

The road runs 55 miles (88 km) from the coast north to Torres del Paine National Park.

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A friendly shepherd and canine pals patrol the range.

Before it became a park, most of the area was part of an enormous privately owned sheep station.

The road leads to Torres del Paine N.P. in the southern Andes Mountains.

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Torres del Paine

Ana Campo of Anvica’s Gallery  hosts next week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #159. Her theme will be “Postcards.”

To take part in this challenge link your post to Beths and add the Lens-Artists “tag.”

This country road didn’t take me home a la John Denver, but it offered some awesome Patagonian scenery. Thanks for visiting.