Biking our way through the Road of 365 curves

Incredible scenery

We started quite early in Mendoza. We drove towards Uspallata, tte village in a scenic location on the road which crosses the Andes between Mendoza and Santiago in Chile. The road to the Chilean border incorporates some of the most amazing scenery in the region, the Andean mountains in this part being part of the backdrop of the highest peak out of the ANDES, Aconcagua at almost 7,000 metres above sea level.

Few years ago, "7 years in Tibet" was shoot here, as there were too many limitations to make it in Tibet.

Just take a look:

Our guide - Louis picked us up with his cool Lada car. (Yes, indeed it was LADA!!!!).  We started naturally with yerba mate.

 

...for the good start of the day...

 

 

We were about to do a Road of 365 curves, former, the only road between Argentina and Chile.  Of course by bike.... hell yeah!

  We started at a view point towards Aconcagua.

The road RP 52, also called ruta de un año, is unpaved once you get past Villavicenzio, but it is wide enough to feel safe and does not need a 4 wheel drive car to do it. There were a few rocks across the at various places which made it look dramatic, but it's no real problem, even for a city people like us:) !

Ready to go.

 

However, we didn't expect clouds on the other side.

 

 

Later on it got little foggy...

But finally we made it to the picknick place!!!

 Although the weather at the other side was not perfect, we enjoyed the day a lot with the good company.