Buenos Aries -135Km (Total 2119km cycled)
Highlights: Warmshowers, America Embassy, Masa Criteria.
Day 111-127 – April 28 - May 14 : Changing plans
The last few weeks in southern Chile and Argentina have shown us that winter is fast approaching: lots of rain and often very frosty, humid n...
San Carlos de Bariloche, Villa Traful, San Martin de los Andes -205Km (Total 1984km cycled)
Highlights: Chocolate, Crema de Mani ice cream, Le Tandem, lakes, ash and volcanoes.
To see more photos click here to go to our gallery : Ruta de los Siete Lagos
Day 105-106 - April 22-23 : Pe...
Puerto Natales, El Calafate, El Chalten, Villa o'Higgins - 85km (Total 790Km cycled)
Highlights : The fork finally arrived, we met some great people who kept us sane while waiting, rough off-road, hilly and tough single-track, rainstorms, beautiful and stunning wilderness, hanging glaciers,...
Rio Grande, Bellavista, Cameron, Porvenir 21/01/2012 - 30/01/2012. 322Km (Total 619Km cycled)
Highlights: leaving Rio Grande, the flight of the condors, wind, guanacos, Chilean border crossing, wind, illegal garlic, epic night-riding, wind, never-ending ripio, wild camping, and did we mentio...
Ushuaia - Tolhuin - Rio Grande, 14/01/2012 - 17/01/2012. 297Km (Total 297Km cycled)
Highlights: great views over Ushuaia as we left; our first passport control; wild camping and tasty camp food; meeting other cycle tourists heading south on the last leg of their journeys; heeding warnings ab...
While in Buenos Aires we got an email from our very good friend Emily, who should be in Iran as I type this, on her around-the-world tour. She let us know that a friend of hers would be in Ushuaia at the same time as we'd be there.
So, we hooked up with Angela, a lovely and very inspiring lady, an...
Not the easiest thing to find when you search on a search engine.
Though there is plenty places near by and even one on the outskirts of Ushuaia.
There is a few free/wild campsites (camping municipal) in the Tierra del Fuego National Park and near Rio Pipo. Problally the best looking one, from w...
We toyed with the idea of going cycling on the free bicycles in Buenos Aires, or even to take one of the guided bike tours. But, it was simply way too hot and humid to even consider doing more than slow walking, or shuffling when it got really hot, for short distances.
Buenos Aires is built in a...
First of all, if you're wondering why there are no tales or photos of bicycles yet, it's because we're officially Being Tourists in Buenos Aires while acclimatising. The cycling won't start until we arrive in Ushuaia (so if we're boring you, you might want to wait until Thursday to hear about our ad...
We had breakfast in the hostel - some sweet little mini croissants called medialunas, tea (without milk as only hot was available - Peli deems this a serious situation, and a solution will be sought for future breakfasts) and bread with delicious "dulce de leche" (caramel milk, like the stuff at the...
We arrived at the airport with plenty of spare time thanks to the help - in the form of a chauffeur to Gatwick - of our good friends.
We needed that extra time to get my massive bike box (large as it's also containing the Extrawheel trailer) through the security checks since it would be too big fo...
