A Short Day to Chilecito

After yesterday's long ride I was in no rush to leave the refugio to continue for the last 50 km to the next town called Chilecito.
Well, if only I had checked the wind forecast...

No 5 minutes into the ride the wind picked up and was - of course - blowing directly in my face. And so I found myself crawling up the first 25 km of uphill at a tortoises speed 🐢

Thank god it was mainly downhill from there, except for the last 5 km, making the ride more bearable and the wind less annoying. Still, if you need to pedal to get anywhere on a downhill...not exactly my definition of fun.

I arrived in Chilecito around noon and treated myself to some good coffee and food and met back up with Matt, who was taking a well deserved rest day after battling some insane headwinds the day before that made him take almost 5h for the 50 kms to town.

While I was initially not planning on taking any rest days in Chilecito, the town was actually quite cute and we had once again secured a really nice place to stay, so I ended up staying 3 full days. 🤷‍♀️

The days were spent updating this blog (well...at least a little), drinking coffee and once again eating lots of good food.

On day two we met another German cyclist who had just arrived and wanted to set of to the Ruta de los seis miles a few days after. This is probably one of the most remote routes of thw country, requiring you to carry 17 days worth of food and 10L of water on your bike 🤯 Considering this, his setup was impressively lightweight.

In the evening we all went for a delicious dinner at a Libanese restaurant together, exchanged travel stories and enjoyed having something different than the ever same meet-heavy Argentinian cuisine for once 🤗

🚴‍♀️ Distance cycled: 50 km
⏳️ Time cycled: 2h 50m
☕️ Coffees consumed: 7
🚵‍♂️ Cyclists met: 1
🐈 Cats running through the garden at all times: 7+Read more