{"id":1760,"date":"2013-02-19T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2013-02-22T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:21:11","slug":"19-february-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"19 February 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the events of yesterday, I lay in bed considering why we had come across to Argentina in the first place. It occurred to me that the only reason that we had done this crossing was because I wanted to see the Punta Del Inca<\/a> and Aconcagua<\/a>, the highest mountain in Argentina, both of which we missed because we ended up doing the crossing at night! The journey north on the Argentine side to Salta was ONLY because of the sites on this crossing that we missed so I lay there contemplating the viability of carrying on to Mendoza at all!<\/p>\n

\"SAM_0923\"<\/a>    <\/p>\n

Punta Del Inca<\/em><\/p>\n

Whilst we sat waiting for the road to open yesterday we met a German biker called Hubert that mentioned that the only other Argentine\/Chilean crossing through the Andes further North had been closed 2 weeks ago due to heavy rains. A quick squiz at the weather forecast further north of Mendoza showed rain for the remainder of the week so that was enough to convince me that we should turn around and head back to Chile and simultaneously get to see the sights we missed. This turned out to be a great call because although it resulted in a long 590km ride to La Serena on the Chilean coast, we rode the pass in the most amazing weather and get to ride without any rain forecast for the remainder of this coming week.<\/p>\n

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Our 590km ride today<\/em><\/p>\n

\"DCIM\\100GOPRO\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

Some of the Vistas through the Andes taken with a helmet cam..<\/em><\/p>\n

The ride up the Chilean coast was beautiful and fast due to the great road conditions but uneventful. We reached La Serena at about 8pm after having departed Uspalata at around 10am and found wonderful accommodation right on the beach. A dinner of traditional Chilean cuisine, a few beers and a bottle of wine and we passed out at about 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the events of yesterday, I lay in bed considering why we had come across to Argentina in the first place. It occurred to me that the only reason that we had done this crossing was because I wanted to see the Punta Del Inca and Aconcagua, the highest mountain in Argentina, both of which […]<\/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-1760","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