(Click on photos for a full-size image on Flickr.) 1) Cycling to Incahuasi 2) Descending from Abra Pircas Negras to the Chile/Argentina border 3) Lagunas Verde and Blanca 4) The classic shot on the old road to Yolosa 5) Iguazu Falls 6) Cayman…
Rumbo a Buenos Aires – La Rioja, San Luis, Cordoba, Sta Fe, Buenos Aires – Argentina – 21/2-20/3/11
After so long in the mountains the final month of our South America cycle was a relaxing warm-down from the challenges and strains of the Andes. For a few days we raced across La Rioja, covering large distances on flat,…
Drinking Petrol, Fearing Death, Getting Robbed, Overwhelming Generosity and other tales from a loop in the Andes – Catamarca & La Rioja Argentina, Region III Chile – 30/1-20/2/11
We’d cycled Fiambala to Villa Union before – it’s a nice easy three days. This time however we wanted to go the long way round, crossing Paso San Francisco into Chile, then back over Pircas Negras to Argentina. Add in…
Incahuasi (6,641m) – Provincia de Catamarca, Argentina
This huge volcano, the 12th highest mountain in the Andes, lies just south of the paved road from Fiambala to Paso San Francisco, and as it is so accessible receives more ascents than most of the other 6,000ers in the…
The Puna – Catamarca, Argentina 1-29/1/11
January in Catamarca turned out to be the proverbial ‘month of two halves’. The first week we carbo-loaded in Fiambala, tucking into as much steak, ice cream and wine as we could. We called it training. The next 17 days…