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Crazy switchbacks climbing the Chile side.
Chile imigration... We waiting in line for awhile (over an hour) until we realized we didnt need to do anything here. We met Gary here. Gary was on his way home back to Toronto after taking a 7 day horse expedition over the Andes. Turns out he works for CN and knows Phils dad. Small world.
Waiting in line for the Argentina Customs etc. Another hour.
Finally near the front. Turns out Trevor burnt his Chile bike papers while he was cleaning out some old papers from other border crossings. Whoops! We played dumb and managed to get our bikes through with little problem.
When we first pulled up we got a sheet with one stamp on it..... Random.
By the end there were 5 stamps! We passed it to the policeman on the wayout. He didnt need to look at the rest of our papers which was nice.
Camping spot off the highway, in a dry riverbed.
It was extremely windy. Tested the limits of our cheap tents.
Trevor opted to sleep without the tent under the open sky. Tons of stars!
Today we drove a short way to the small touristy town of Uspallata. We grabbed some groceries, tried to get some Argentina pesos from the bank machine and used the internet for a while. No luck on the peso´s but we converted our few leftover Chile pesos.
Later on in the afternoon we found this sweet lake/camping spot away from everyone. After a bit of offroad riding we camped on the cliff. It was great to swim after sweating uncontrollably for most of the day.
Cliff jumping
The french judge gives this a 9/10
Stew for supper!
Dinner with a view...
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