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Up the Andes

Up the Andes
February - April 2010

 

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From Lima to Tierra Del Fuego and back up the Patagonia coast to Uruguay, Paraguay and into Brazil, the Up the Andes ride promises the widest range of terrain and weather conditions a motorcyclist could dream of — not to mention the social, cultural and language immersion that these rides into foreign parts always entail. We have a dizzying number of traverses of the Andes en route, and will spend much time flicking back and forth between Chile and Argentina as we head for the continents most southern extreme.

Once we get to peer over the Iguacu Falls in late April 2010 we know we'll be nearing the end but that won't come until we've stood once again in awe of the ruins at Machu Picchu, ridden the surreal Salar de Uni, done the long stretch south to the extremity of the Straits of Magellan at 55 degrees south, spent time some time in the alpine and glacial valleys in the far south, ridden north across the Pampas and the plateaux of Patagonia, and finally squinted across to the South Shetland Islands, we start the trek north up the continents dividing range. The south of South America is one part of the world we have not had a taste of, and we can't wait.

For the best visual on any part of this track go to the Satellite version of Google Maps, or download our Google Maps KMZ here. You will need Google Earth to play the fly-over tour.