We made it to La Quiaca, the border town with Bolivia, late last night after a very long day covering 100km against a horrid headwind. We´re both feeling the effects of the altitude too which makes pedalling even more of a struggle but we were determined to make it to La Quiaca last night for a warm bed and a hot shower after a freezing night camping at 3700m the night before. We knew it had been pretty cold when we woke to find all of our water had frozen as well as the eggs we´d bought for breakfast. Luckily we woke to a beautiful sunny day so we ate our scrambled egg icecream in the morning sun and gradually let our frozen bones thaw out before hitting the last leg of the Argentine phase. It seemed fitting that our last day of cycling in Argentina also coincided with the Bicentenary celebrations so we woke up to fireworks and music from the nearby village of Tres Cruces.
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