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Author: Peter Peresini

  • Penguins

    Tierra del Fuego - part 2 - Rio Grande to Porvenir

    Introduction

    My second part of Tierra del Fuego consisted of going from Rio Grande to Porvenir.

    I decided not to take the conventional Route through San Sebastian but instead opted out for a more adventorous ripio roads through Bella Vista border crossing in the middle of nowhere. This of course ...

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  • Road from Ushuaia

    Tierra del Fuego - part 1 - Ushuaia to Rio Grande

    November 29

    I started my whole trip (and the Tierra del Fuego) at Ushuaia by leaving quite late from my airbnb accomodation -- I actually wanted to go sooner but then Sam (my host) told me that between 12-3pm there is a siesta time and everything is closed. Thus I waited ...

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  • Ushuaia gate

    Tierra del Fuego - Introduction

    Tierra del Fuego - "The Land of Fire" - is a fierce piece of land at the complete south of South America. The colonists named this island according to the fires (or smokes) they saw but these days Tierra del Fuego is anything but fire:

    There is a lot of earth on ...

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  • Tierra del Fuego NP sign

    Tierra del Fuego NP

    Before starting my biking trip, I had one day to set everything up in Ushuaia and I decided to spend this day by visiting Tierra del Fuego National Park. And while there aren't so many hiking trails in the park, the park itself is certainly worth visiting for longer ...

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  • Buenos Aires - Sky Scrapers

    Buenos Aires

    Buenos Aires -- a city which, according to my current (read: very limited) level of Spanish, should translate to "good airs" definitely does not have such a good air. As a city, Buenos Aires is very huge, very flat, and very expensive. Seriously, 50 USD to get from the airport to ...

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  • KLM cup with a bike

    Flying to Argentina

    My bike trip starts at Ushuaia but obviously I won't just appear there out of nowhere. Instead, I had to fly from Vienna through Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and the tomorrow to Ushuaia.

    Checking in at Vienna airport was much less of a drama than I anticipated. First I ...

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  • Bike packing - before

    Packing

    My bike tour preparations are in the grand finale. On Monday I went to ProCycling to pack my bike. This wasn't as scary as I imagined. Basically, we removed the front wheel and front rack, put spacers on the fork and brakes, removed pedals and the bike was ready ...

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