[ENG/ESP] The great journey of route 40 by motorcycle from north to south: the eighth stage in Darwin's. / El gran viaje de la ruta 40 en moto de norte a sur: la octava etapa siguiendo los pasos de Darwin. /
I arrive in Mendoza crossing the route that some time back in the middle of the 18th century Charles Darwin crossed in his constant search for material for his book The Origin of Species and that took him to the extreme south of the continent. Llego a Mendoza atravesando la ruta que alguna vez allá por mediados del siglo XVIII atravesó Charles Darwin en su constante búsqueda de material para su libro El Origen de las Especies y que lo llevó hasta el extremo sur del continente. A plaque on a stone tumulus recalls the memory of the illustrious naturalist in Paramillos (Uspallata) where there is also the Petrified Araucarias Forest that bears his name. There Darwin discovered and inventoried about a hundred petrified araucarias that were older than 200 million years. I also cross the Inca Bridge, a place traveled by Jesuits, conquerors, Incas and also by the army of the Liberator José de San Martín. Darwin camped in a shelter in this a...