{"id":1501,"date":"2013-01-16T00:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2013-01-16T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:27:18","slug":"15-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"15 January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today has been a much anticipated day for many reasons. Firstly, Ushuaia is a milestone, not only for this particular journey but for any traveller to get to, secondly, it being the southern most city in the World, it represents the outer southerly Arc of my journey and lastly, its been a city that has been spoken about so many times in the planning of this trip. <\/p>\n

The ride down from Cerro Sombrero where we stayed last night was interesting. The GPS took us down a dirt road which we thought would go for a few kilometres and then join the tar\u2026.it didn’t! It kept going for about 150km and at first I was a bit miffed about the dirt versus tar choice but then it occurred to me that I was on a magnificent dirt road, in a part of the world where I probably wont get a chance to ride again and lastly, the surroundings were incredible and found myself loving every moment thereafter. When we got to the Chile\/Argentina border, we found out that their was in fact no tar road and soon after Cerro Sombrero, it all became dirt regardless of the route although I think ours was perhaps the more scenic and less trafficked.<\/p>\n

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Our ride today.<\/em><\/p>\n

My gripes about the boringness of the east coast of Argentina are over. The magnificence started after Rio Grande in the Terra Del Fuego. Barren flatlands gave way to an Alpine type scenery\u2026Massive lakes, snow capped mountains, flowered meadows, forests and a road that only occurs in a motorcyclists dreams!<\/p>\n

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I have travelled much of the world but can say with hand on heart that nothing has taken my breath away like the road travelled between Tolhuin and Ushuaia and I don’t believe that even the pics posted in this entry do it justice.<\/p>\n

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Enrico showing off\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

We arrived in Ushuaia around 4pm and then ran into problems with finding accommodation because it is peak season and we didn’t book ahead. Who knew that Ushuaia was such a popular tourist city? It has a high of some 12 to 14C in mid summer and the sun barely peeks through. That said, the surrounds are UN-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E!!<\/p>\n

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We are planning on staying here for 3 nights as the town is cute with a fair amount of activity and to give us enough time to rest up before we start our northern trek to Santiago.<\/p>\n

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Our total ride thus far<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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