Thursday, January 1, 2009
End of the Road...
Rio Mayo: Wado caught up with us and we started off again on the most
demanding part of the trip, some 400 km of gravel. On the last 200 we had
winds of about 100 km which put our bikes at 45 degree angles to the floor.
At times, we had to travel in 1st gear!!!!
Anyway, we arrived that night at El Chalten, a small hippie town, full of
foreigners doing trekking... From then on the weather was our main enemy,
specially the wind.
We spent one night in a small cabin owned by climbers and the next day we
continued to El Calafate where we stayed in a lovely flat owned by a couple
from Cordoba. That was the 24th. That evening, Navidad, we went to a Chinese
Asado place (all you can eat, owned by Chinese!!!) We were sleeping by 11,
but got woken up at 12 with all the fireworks!!!
On the 25th we got up early and drove to the Glaciar Perito Moreno, which was
amazing. (See photos below.) The road was very nice to ride too... From there we came back to
the cabin, picked up our things and carried on south, to cross the border
to Chile at Rio Turbio. On the way we saw lots of avestruces and guanacos. (Apologies to English readers - no idea!! Jimena - help!!!)
We crossed the border into Puerto Natales. We had lovely dinner in a
restaurant owned by argentineans, and I tracked down Kerry, Terry East's
daughter, who I went to see next morning!
From there we carried on all day under the rain and wind until a small town
called Sombrero were we spent the night. Next morning we crossed back into
Argentina, thanks god, and carried on all the way to Ushuaia.
We are a bit fed up with the weather and cold... If it was a bit better we
would stay a few days, but I see no point on staying in the hotel, we might
as well be back in Cordoba.
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