Stage 90, Puerto Ibanez to Perito Merino, 112 kms, climbing 1228 metres. What a cracker of a day.

To cut this story short as I only have 10 minutes to type it up as I have to be back for dinner at the camp. So this is it.

We left the camp at 8am to head down to the Chilean border post. After the trucks got through we had to then ride the 20 kms to the Argentinian border post. The road was up a huge mountain 10 kms long on shocking roads.  The only consolation was the view back down to the lake.

 The photo above is Hilde climbing one of the paved sections with the lake in the distance.

We had to ride 20 kms to reach the Argentinian border post which I think doesn't get much business at all.

 The photo above is of the Argentinian border post.  A small house and that's it.

From the lunch stop at 45 kms to the end of the day we had a huge wind pushing us along. We still had 60 kms to reach the town of Perito Merino and it on terrible roads, full of rocks and sand.

It took us 4 & 1/2 hours to ride 45 kms in the morning and it took 3 & 1/2 hours to do the 60 kms in the afternoon.

The photo above is looking back down onto the lake. The view was pretty nice all day.

We had a really tough day today on the bikes today due mainly to having thin tires on the dirt. We needed fat dirt tires which would have made the world of difference.  

We made it to camp at 3.30 pm and were glad to get off the bikes. Tomorrow we have another long hard day. I deal with that at 8am tomorrow.

Until tomorrow, safe riding.