{"id":1523,"date":"2013-01-17T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2013-01-19T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:33:35","slug":"17-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"17 January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

As advised, today was a rest day. We slept, ate, did some exercise, tinkered on the bikes and explored a little of Ushuaia. <\/p>\n

The town is essentially a launch base for the cruise ships that leave for the Antarctic and hence the touristic nature of the town. That said, in winter it apparently turns into quite a ski resort and one can see why with such beautiful surrounds.The town survives primarily off tourism and its properly geared for that. The hotels cater for all budgetary requirements and the service industry is pretty good. I would come back.<\/p>\n

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The tall one. Our hotel <\/em>Alto Andino<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Because we are so far south and its summer, the sun rises just after 5am and sets at 10pm although there is light in the sky until 11pm so it makes for looonngg days which is great for riding particularly if you’re running late and don’t want to ride in the dark!<\/p>\n

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The blue dot represents Ushuaia. You get a sense from this pic of its latitude, approx 2500km south of Cape Town.<\/em><\/p>\n

We ended the day with dinner at an awesome restaurant called Lolas where we both ate the local speciality, king crab!!<\/p>\n

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This shot was taken at 10pm from where we were having dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As advised, today was a rest day. We slept, ate, did some exercise, tinkered on the bikes and explored a little of Ushuaia. The town is essentially a launch base for the cruise ships that leave for the Antarctic and hence the touristic nature of the town. That said, in winter it apparently turns into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t