 Go, go, go, go! Here we go, about to hit Argentinian land. Hi, I'm Lavi. And I'm Oli. And this is our hero, Bumblebee. Together, we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Join us for season three, here in South America. All right. Gracias, ciao! Good morning world, welcome back to the channel. It's day number 233 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the beautiful little town of Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay. Woo! We stayed at a really cool room here in town last night. We found the place on Bunkerbiker, which is a website where motorcycle travelers or motorcyclists can actually host other motorcyclists, kind of like the couchsurfing for motorcycle riders. Yeah, thanks so much, Aldana and Ronaldo, to make it possible for us to stay at your awesome place. We really enjoyed it. It was a super peaceful night. Yeah, and we got a chance yesterday afternoon to have a walk around Colonia del Sacramento, as well as our moto tour. So we could really explore all the beautiful, old, historic streets. So it was really lovely. But today we have a different mission. Argentina, we're coming. Yes, let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are down here in the UNESCO site, Colonia del Sacramento. And today we are gonna be making the crossing over to this gray land here, also known as Argentina. Woo! Yes, today we are heading to Buenos Aires. Woo! This will be country number nine. Country number nine. So we have our ferry booked for quarter past 10. So right now we're heading to the ferry port, where we've basically got to figure out what we have to do with Bumblebee and what we have to do with ourselves to get us over from Uruguay to Argentina. Yes! Ferry port! There we go. I like taking a ferry. Buenos dias. Buenos dias. Balsa, Den. En el barco de la gira. En barco, en barco, Buenos Aires. Sí, gracias. This looks like an airport, doesn't it? It does, it does. A mini little airport. Oh, I like taking ferries as well. It's just fun to do something like that, isn't it? Yes. Especially going from this beautiful town to the capital of Argentina, wow. That's pretty crazy stuff. It's going to be really cool. Yeah. Buenos dias. Buenos dias. Buquebas, Den. Cuyen. Sí. Pónganle al costado de ese auto que está ahí. Ah, el auto, aquí. Exacto. Estación. Ahí. Okay. Gracias. Hey, nearly flew out, hey? I'm just completely guessing. Completely guessing what he means. Yeah, so I think you're parking here. Basically, just behind this car. Okay. Because there's the Buquebas. No way. Looks tiny. Yeah, but that's the Colonie Express. No way. Yeah. What? I don't know if the Colonie Express actually does vehicles, but that's, yeah, that's the Colonie Express. And this is the one we're taking, Buquebas. Okay, cool. So now we have to go back in over there. Okay. And do our passports and everything. The bike, nothing with the bike. Nothing with a bike? No, there is one thing. We give them our exit permit, like the temporary import permit. Yeah. We give them that. Passports stamped. Okay. So let's go do that. So we're all checked in and we've been through the passport control and we've been stamped out of Uruguay. So now we're actually stuck in this waiting area. We can't return back to Bumblebee. Bumblebee is over there alone with all the other cars. We didn't realize that we wouldn't be able to actually return. We had to Bumblebee so we didn't really bring like anything with us, like drinks or food or anything. So I think we have about an hour to wait and then we'll be able to go get Bumblebee and board the ferry. All right. So unfortunately, Lavi had to board the bus by foot. They would only allow just me to ride the bike on. So she can't be here to witness this. But I think it's time to hit the road and then hit the ocean. It's incredibly hot at the moment. The bike is saying 36 degrees. There we go. Gracias. Woo hoo hoo. Leaving Uruguayan soil. Goodbye Uruguay. Oh, look at this. Whoa. So do I have a special place to go for the special Bumblebee? Yes, the fellow is saying to come round. Yes. Of course, we have a special area behind the other motorbike. OK, let's try and go round in a circle without dropping Bumblebee. OK? How are you? Muy bien. How are you? How are you doing? North Espanol. Ah, on the center. Could you, uh, together? OK, 3, 2, 1. Wey. Gracias. Because me, uh, no, no. Mucho peso, mucha carga. Mucho, mucho grande. OK, it's time to put the cameras away. Strap this baby down. Gracias. It feels like boarding a plane, actually. And it looks like it as well. Let's see if I can find Ollie again. Together we go. Yes. We are probably apart for five minutes. Oh, it's crazy rush, eh? Oh, my lord. All right, let's rock and roll. Go, go, go, go. Here we go, about to hit Argentinian land. Yay. Yay. Welcome, Argentina. Welcome, Argentina. Oh, hey, we still got to do the bumblebee import. We still got to do the passports. We're not welcomed in just yet. Look, there's the freedom, the freedom of Argentina. Ta-da. Look at the buildings. Wow, a mega city. Yeah, we've come in right, right at the center of the city. OK, we've got to figure out what to do. Migraciones. Buenos dias. Yeah, gracias. You have to wait here. Buenos dias. Estacional aquí. OK, looks like we have to park the bike over here. Gracias. Yes, ready for you. 456. Gracias. Dao. There we go. Out on the streets of Buenos Aires. Epic stuff. We made it. We're already here. Not even midday. How cool, eh? So the process there was pretty easy. Once we got off the boat, we had our passport stamped. Once we had our passport stamped, I had to go into a little office and get the temporary import permit. So he asked me for the motorcycle documents. I gave him those, passport. He wrote something out, stamped it, I signed, done. They didn't ask us anything to do with insurance. It was all very easy. Yes. So but anyway, this is where we're heading now to our insurance company to get our cutie bike insured. They've got a Mercasor, like a lot of Latin American countries, all covered under like one policy. I read on iOverlander that we can get a policy at this company that we're about to drive to now. So let's get Bumblebee safe. Yes. 30 degrees, baby. 30 degrees at the moment, yeah. Every time we come into a city, eh? Oh my god. Whilst we navigate our way through the hot, sweaty heart of the city, we thought we would share some interesting facts about our ninth country on the road so far. The eighth largest country in the world and the largest Spanish-speaking country, Argentina has a population of 47 million people. Its name comes from the Italian, meaning made of silver, referring to the legend of a mythical silver mountain in the country by early European explorers. And 60% of the population has full or partial Italian ancestry. It is the home of the tango and home to the highest and lowest points in the Southern Hemisphere. Aconcagua, at 6,961 meters above sea level, and Laguna del Carbon, at 108 meters below sea level. It is also one of the most biodiverse countries in the world for its plants, animals, and ecological regions with temperate, subtropical, and sub-polar climates within the country. And we can't wait to explore them all, especially the sub-polar. Man, it's hot. Oh, look at these. These are some grand buildings. Wow. I think, yeah, I think this is really the center of the center. Wow. Look at that. What a nice, sweatiest city tour. Wow. What a big city. Oh, this is the biggest central avenue ever. Buenos Aires has a population of 3 million people. But the metro population is 15 million. 15 million? Yes. Oh, my Lord. So it's absolutely huge. Some nice, lovely facts there. Yeah. Oh, look, they've got a monument, like the Washington Monument. Look at that. Wow. Just switch over there. Ah, there's a bike up there as well. I think we'll go up there. OK, awesome. Here we go. All right, parked up in the center of the city. So I've got to go to the insurance company. It's on the opposite side of this massive avenue. So I'll go see if I can get over there. So it looks like the insurance company that I saw on iOverlander is closed down. It was just like a for sale sign on the front. So we'll have to find another one, I guess. OK, on to place number two, then, I guess. We found another one on iOverlander. It's a bit further down this street. But I don't know, these entries on iOverlander, they're sometimes a few years old. And yeah, you never know if things have changed in the meantime. Luckily, this other company is just a couple of minutes down the road, one mile. Except this time I might actually take the advice and cross the junction just to make it easier. OK. Because every meter you have to walk here. In the full gear, yeah, that's tough. It's suffering. Yeah, just park. Park down here. Yeah. All right, cool. I think it's this place. No way. Seguros Riva da Vida. I mean, shutters are down. It's exactly the location listed. Yeah, I'll ask the shop next door. OK, that's insurance company number two of two. Closed, look at that. Totally closed. And it is a Monday, by the way. So we've got one last insurance company in this area. So hopefully this one will be open or exist or whatever. 10-minute ride across the city centre. So fingers crossed. OK, yes. I think I can go and have a look. Shall I go in here? OK. OK. There's people here. I'll just go next to this, dude. No, I'll go next to the bin. OK. OK. Kind of blocking the bin. Yeah, I think it's fine. OK. Now our third insurance company should be just up here. So we'll give it a go. Try number three. You honestly wouldn't believe it, but Alliance Insurance is closed as well. It doesn't make any sense. It's like a Monday. It should be something open. I don't really get it, but OK. So we can just go straight like that and then round the corner. I'll tell you what, parking is not too easy here in the city. So for now, we've given up on insurance because the three main companies, two of them are closed and one of them doesn't exist. Can you believe it? We're going to move on to mission number two for our arrival here in Buenos Aires. And that is to change our rear tyre. So we've searched a couple of tyre brand places. We don't really know which one is the best for the bike, but we've chosen to go to Continental. So Continental have a place, Continental Argentina. That's actually over towards where we're going to be staying tonight in the north side of the city. So it's about half an hour's ride. So let's see if we can be a little bit more successful on this. Oh, this looks like the sort of plaster independence or something like that. Yeah, true. And the big Argentinian flag. Yeah, and some like royal guards walking down. Wow, cool. Nice. Yeah, this is definitely like the central class of Argentina. Wow. That's awesome. Some big palms here as well. And some grand buildings. Wow. Awesome. On the highway. On the big highway with all the trucks. Pretty hectic. And then you've got this guy in front carrying like one, two, three, four, five stacks of boxes on his little scooter. That's really funny. What a madman. Yeah, this city just goes on forever. It's just huge. It's absolutely massive. Okay, continental tires should be coming up just in a minute. I think it's this place, Calzeta Numaticos. Just going to park here and see. Okay. I mean, they've got tires. Let's find out. Yeah. Continental. Continental. Continental, yes. No, this one. That's all. Okay. I can roll. Yeah. Pretty sure I can go on these things. Can I? I think so too. Yeah, I should. Oops. Oops. Haha. Haha. Ciao, ciao. Haha. Okay, so semi successful, but also highly unsuccessful. Haha. Basically, they had a tire for our bike. Continental tire, but it was just a road tire, basically. Not an off-roading tire, not a 50-50. At the moment, we have the Dunlop Trail Max Mission Tire, which is 50-50. The only one they could offer was a pretty slick road tire. And it's almost better to just stick with what we've got than change it to that, to be honest. Yeah, I mean, we are so happy with our tires. You kind of just want to keep it going and going and going, even though we've done more than 10,000 miles now on it. Insane, but I don't know. So there was a guy there called Damien, and he was really, really nice. And he spoke English, which was awesome. And he actually called a whole bunch of other places for us. He called Michelin, he called Bridgestone. He tried to call Suzuki, but they didn't answer. He tried to call Dunlop as well. Yeah, they put him in touch with a motorcycle garage. And that motorcycle garage, we're going to ride there now. And then they're going to have a look and see what they can do for us. See if they can offer us something a little bit more off-road capable. Okay, all good. All right, two and a half hours later, we're leaving Motorlandia, empty-handed. So we went through a couple of different options, and the whole process just took such a long time, checking with the supplier, trying to find this and that. So it turns out that the imported tires, like the ones we wanted, like Bridgestone AK41, Dunlop Trailmax Mission, or Continental TKC70, these are very, very expensive here in Argentina. He checked with the supplier, and we're talking about US$500 for just the rear tire. So that's really, really not good news. He offered us one local Brazilian tire. I can't remember the brand, but I checked online and it was only rated to do about 3,000 to 4,000 miles. And it was still US$250. Yeah, so I really don't know what's that about. Yeah, that's way more expensive than I was expecting. I thought that the Trailmax missions were for a pair, something like 100, 150 pounds. So we left the place and said we'll have a think about it, but we're really not sure what the next step is for us, because we can't really spend US$500 on one tire, and we still have tread on our Trailmax Mission rear tire. It still looks reasonable. So anyway, we decided that it's already half past four. We've been hot and sweaty in our gear for such a long time that we're just going to make our way to the accommodation now. And call it a day and have a think about what the next step is. AI, I'm dead. What a hot day, hey? The heat just takes all the energy out of me. Oh my God, it's crazy. You know, I expected it to be quite tough to sort out the insurance or to get stuff, you know, with the language barrier and riding around the city, this crazy, crazy massive city. But actually, I think it was even more difficult than I expected it to be to get anywhere and actually we got nowhere. We spent the whole day riding around and we didn't get insurance and we didn't get a tire. Yes, how crazy is that? I mean, who would have known that it's so difficult to get a tire in a big city? Or expensive. US$500, would you pay for one tire? Well, we're going to check the price online and see how much it is, but we might need to wait a little bit and kind of, you know, test our Trailmax mission tires to the max. Yes, because actually it still has a lot of thread. We'll post a picture of the tread and then you guys can see how we're at at the moment. So let us know in the comments how you think our tire is doing after 10,000 miles. But it was really, really nice to at least take the ferry over and get to a new country. Awesome. And yeah, make some progress on the journey. We're here in Argentina. It's amazing. I'm so glad to be here. It's awesome. Super cool. 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