Bicycle touring in Chile.
It’s a tough one! Don’t get the wrong idea when we write about tough routes, we kind of actually like it! It’s our fetishism apparently… 😉 So, crossing from El Chalten to Villa o’Higgins is more of a pushing adventure than a bicycle one, but a must!
OMG, I feel like a grandma! The muscles in my legs are hurting, I didn’t even know I had these muscles and now I walk around Torres del Paine as a granny. I even see people looking at me (and probably laughing) when we have dinner at one of the campsites. Elmar is the one who’s laughing the most!
Our latest movie; cycling from Ushuaia to Puerto Natales and hiking the W-trek in Torres del Paine. We saw King Penguins! 🙂
It’s amazing how friendly strangers are… The wind is once again our enemy in this part of the world and with no more than 6 kilometers per hour we are battling against it, while dark clouds are closing in. A car stops and a well dressed woman walks towards us, she introduces herself as Vivina and invites us to stay at her estancia.
With 40 degrees Celsius we work hard to climb the Cuesta de Chucabaca on the terrible ripio road on our first cycling day. We are here for only two and a half weeks and want to climb two passes: the Cristo Redentor and the Paso Agua Negra.