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La Cumbre/Argentina – Colonia del Sacramento/Uruguay
Finally cycling again. 56 days, we did not cycle, the longest bicycle abstinence for maybe 17 years. Not that driving a car was not comfortable, but if you can’t push the car into the next bush to camp or you pay highway fee, you sensing need to refuel daily or you can’t continue, because anyone […]
Vacations in southern Chile and southern Argentina Part 2
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego – the „End of the World“ everything here advertises for tourists. The dispute of the most southern city in the world Ushuaia has lost but for us the most southern point of our tour is reached and the place on our trip farthest away from home. More than 14.000km it is […]
Vacations in southern Chile and southern Argentina Part 1
Santiago de Chile after about a 1,000km bus ride. We wait for Andrea, an aunt from the East with gifts from the West. Finally, it’s my birthday. And Andrea’s as well. While, of course, you cannot tell it by looking at her, for me it is already the 3rd birthday on this trip – 2006 […]
Mendoza/Argentina – La Cumbre/Argentina
We are in Mendoza. Actually, we want to park our bikes here, to view the Aconcagua, highest mountain in America, from nearest vicinity and then travel 6 weeks without bikes toward Patagonia. Unfortunately, there now in October, before the summer season, there is no access to the Aconcagua National Park. We change our plans and […]
San Pedro de Atacama/Chile – Mendoza/Argentina
San Pedro – THE tourist village in the Atacama and correspondingly expensive, but it just offers the level of service and convenience, we need once again. 2 days of getting us and our equipment back in shape.
Uyuni/Bolivia – San Pedro de Atacama/Chile
The lagoon route – allegedly one of the hardest dirt roads in South America. Such superlatives are usually not worth much, but the reported difficulties would not allow us to expect an easy ride – the total length of the dirt road after Uyuni including the section already travelled is almost 700km, very bad dirt […]
Cusco/Peru – Uyuni/Bolivia
A final higher pass and it goes towards Lake Titicaca and the Altiplano. Alti (high) yes, not quite plano (flat), but until further notice we finished 4-digit meters of altitude climbing dayly. We pass the city of Puno, which attraction are the Uros, Indians, who live on floating reed islands on Lake Titicaca. Also, the […]
