We take a bus to Perito Moreno Glacier, and it’s well worth it. Even the views from the bus are impressive! The glacier itself is huge, and it’s difficult to take in its enormity. It looks surreal, huge seracs standing upright on top of one another for miles onto the distance! We walk along boardwalks …
Villa O’Higgins to El Calafate
It’s starts with a mini adventure within an adventure! On the Tuesday night before our ferry crossing on Wednesday, we go to the booking office to fill out our immigration forms and we’re told our 8am ferry crossing will now depart at 4.40am due to the predicted strong winds coming in! It’s a 7km cycle …
Heading for Patagonia!
We get a bus to Temuco. It takes 8 hours overnight and suddenly we’re in central Chile surrounded by green forests, flowing rivers and glaciated volcanoes! Our other option would have been to weave in and out of built up areas for two weeks to get here, and we’re at the point now where we …
Cycling the Calchaquies valley
We head south on the main road for twenty or so miles before turning right and heading upwards, doing a loop of the Calchaquies valley, which is meant to be an uphill climb with some hairpin bends, beautiful vistas, and a nice off-road hill section. We could carry on south on the main road and …