Week 1 Tierra del Fuego

We ´ ve come to the end of our first week in South America and waiting afternoon after crossing Tierra del Fuego with the Mainland today ferry. IT ´s 5 days riding and 277 km to from Ushuaia to Porvenir where we are been ferry to Punta Arenas of always. I ´ hope (d) to make more entries, but it seems that Internet access is harder, but when we to find. There ´s many Internet cafes in cities, they're simply never open ´!

We arrived in Ushuaia Tuesday night and after looking around, had a beautiful Argentinean all you can eat buffet (lots of steak!). We spent the next morning putting together the bikes back and purchase of supplies for the next few days. Some how I made it my bike and all transmissions without paying a meeting get extra so that was a bit of a result! We faced some decent rises before the camping in the mountains and started riding mid afternoon on Wednesday. The area surrounding Ushuaia is was really spectacular as a great introduction to the continent. On the third day we left the mountains and the plains where we

Press the mother of all opposition the US riding at 6 mph for 6-7Std leave. As we bent Street near Rio Grande (largest city in Tierra del Fuego) a U-shape, so we of headwinds to crosswind went (where we had a push our bikes because we couldn't climb ´ t stay on the road) to tailwind, which took place in the city at 22 mph without pedalling. Rio Grande itself is very much a city, so not much to see and not very nice! Another day of wind took us to San Sebastian, on the border between Argentina and Chile where we stayed with an awesome hostel owner chatted for a few hours with our phrasebooks. Woke up the next day we for an early start in the hostel, empty and locked up, how the owners hadn't t home still came ´ of his night hope! We sat in the breakfast room for a while before the owner returned and open, so we could leave and cross in Chile.

As we crossed in Chile we moved on unpaved roads were pretty brutal to us and our bikes. Kept the bikes

surprisingly above (no punctures/repairs required) but my ass on the other hand didn't ´ t fare so good! On the second day of unpaved roads, we took a route that took us in the footsteps of the old gold miners. It was hilly but had some awesome scenery and a great, but bumpy, descent into Porvenir. Porvenir is everything seems a strange town, stops all the time (we open fortunately found an Internet cafe to write). It took about 45 minutes, an open place to eat finding last night and we were the only customers, something we ´ ve get used, order now! There are daily at 2 pm, so we, who are always on a ferry to Punta soon we will start arenas travel to Torres del Paine to do our next right stop, be some hiking.

General impression of Tierra del Fuego; Ushuaia and the mountainous Surroudning are amazing and I would recommend to visit. As soon as it was we left to see mostly plains with very little except am wilderness to the Mainland now.

The spot Tracker-hasn t too successful ´

so far it seems only some of our entries reached home although you say, the news was sent ok. We ´ re still in limited distribution of so should get although better, you can a rough idea where we GoogleMaps and described places-I ´ ve use. Hopefully it will work better when we reach the Mainland.

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