 Anyway, we've got no rush going down this road. We could take it nice and easy. As long as we don't crash. Oh, f**k. Oh, f**k. 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. Good morning, world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 268 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the small town of El Chalten in Argentina. And let me just show you guys the view from outside our tent. This town is just like surrounded by cliffs and gorges and mountains. And it just looks incredible here. It's an incredible location, but it's as well incredibly windy. So last night, we really thought that our tent will break apart. It was absolutely crazy. Yeah, we tried to actually pick like a sheltered spot in this campsite rather than like out on the road or wild camping, but it was still absolutely crazy last night. I couldn't believe it, but our amazing tent did survive and we survived. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here, and today we are going to be taking 23 all the way to the end before turning around, linking back up with the route of 40 to head north. Oh my God. Yesterday, we're heading further into the Los Glacieres National Park for a bit of an exploration. When we came in yesterday, we couldn't see any mountains or anything. It was incredibly cloudy, windy, rainy, but it's looking a lot nicer today. So hopefully we'll have an amazing view. So after our National Park tour, we will just turn around and head north, north, north as far as we can get. We don't know exactly how far we get or where we're going to end up tonight, but it's already nine o'clock and we have to pick up everything. So better hit the road. Let's go. A beautiful day in El Shelton. Wow, look at these cliffs. Man, so epic. And finally, we can see something. Yeah, what a different day to where we arrived in town. It was terrible when we arrived and now it's just like beautiful. Now it's just incredible. Look at this mountain over there with the snow on. Wow. Wow. Oh, there's Mount Fitzroy just hidden by clouds. Nice. Hopefully we can get a little bit of a view of this mountain today. It's almost better to arrive in town. You can't see anything. You camp, you wake up in the morning and the sun is shining and the mountains are just there for you. And it's like, What a location, man. People mostly come to El Shelton actually for hiking. We are still not feeling 100% since like Oshuaia. So we're just really not up for doing a crazy hike. Yeah, the hike would be like 10 hours for a beautiful day hike. And yeah, we have to come back at one point. Luckily there is a road going into the National Park, a lovely dirt road that we can explore. So we can still get a really nice experience here in the Los Glacierres National Park from the comfort of Bumblebee. So here is the start of the road into the park. Okay, cool. This dirt road will take us 38 kilometers, so 20 something miles into the park and it finishes at a lake with a glacier and there's just epic mountains around. So let's see what we can see. Wow. Oh my God, look at this. It looks really, really unreal. That is absolutely stunning. Okay, the gravel is not too bad so far. Still don't like to go uphill on gravel. Whoa. Okay. Anyway, we've got no rush going down this road. We could take it nice and easy. Yeah, as long as we don't crash. Whoa. Okay. Oh my Lord. Beautiful. Yes. Oh, be careful here. Be careful here, yeah. Yeah, okay. Got some wind in the morning. Well, you know, you've got the views, you can't have everything, can you? You've got the views, got the sunshine, so we can take a little bit of wind, I hope. Oh, in between the river and a massive cliff. Look at this. Oh my God. Wow, look at the water. It's going fast. Dang it, that was watering on dangerous right there. Oh my God. Whoa, that was like, I was like a meter away from the river and a meter away from the car. Jesus. Okay. I don't like that. No, that was a bit. That was really dodgy. That was really dodgy. Oh, Jesus. Oh, no. Okay, hold on a second. Let me just slow down here. Yeah. I'm going to have to make my way across to this side. And then I think, oh, we'll stop. Oh, God. Oh, God. No. Okay. Ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Hola. Hola. Muchas gracias. I will go here, hey? Okay. Okay, ready? Go. Wow. Okay. Gracias. Is there space or no? No? A little bit more. Okay. A lot of wind, hey? Okay, so we have decided that we absolutely cannot continue on this road any further. So we're just figuring out now about turning this bike around. Man, this wind condition is insane. It's super strong winds. Okay. Okay. Okay. Nope, it's not okay. Yep, it's okay. Just about. No, we're going to do it like this. Okay. Oh, man, the wind is pushing me so hard. Yeah. Whoo. Too strong winds. We have to turn around. Yeah. Okay. There we go. A visit to Los Glacias National Park. But anyway, nothing much we can do with that. That is just too crazy. Yeah, we are not there yet, hey? With our off-road skills. Yeah, but I mean, there's like the road skills, but then the wind as well. Yeah, yeah, it's a combination, hey? No cars, no cars, no cars. Okay, cool. The widen's out now. So there we go. On our way back to El Chalten. I think one fall is enough for today though, hey? We're just stopping because something is not right here. This is not supposed to be like this. Yeah, there's a loose one. Yeah. All right, I'm going to get a spanner on that and tighten it up. Whoo, it's probably the first time I've had to get out our toolkit. We are skilled enough to tighten some screws. Yes. Yeah, yeah, that's good, it's tightening. That's it, look at that. Oh, that's nice. I don't know if any other screws are loose on the body, but I think that's something we'll have to check, hey? We'll check that later. Okay, awesome. Oh, this has been a morning of challenges, hey? Yeah, I was hoping for a relaxing morning. Yeah, a relaxing ride with some mountain views. Yeah. But no, this was what I was hoping for. Oh, well, anyway, we overcome the challenges so far this morning. We come out alive, happy and alive, hey? Set the end, sweetheart. Yes, we made it back to El Chalten. Whoo-hoo. Oh, man. 10 miles done, I need a break now. Oh, yeah. Time to find some empanadas. Yes, because we tried to find some empanadas yesterday in El Calafate, and the place was closed. But Lavi says that she has found a place that might give us some empanadas here in El Chalten. Oh, yes, Panaderia, and it's definitely open, abierto. There we go. Let's check out what they got. Hola. Buenos días. ¿Cuánto cuesta una croissant? Me hay una. Una, sí. Sien. Sien. OK, cuatro aquí, spinach and cheese, y dos croissants. Ah, OK, this one is tartar. Ah, and this empanada. OK, cuatro empanadas. Perfecto, gracias. Yes, we have empanadas. Yes, and croissants. Whoo. How is it? Delicious. A nice treat after a difficult morning, hey? Beautiful. All right, we are heading out of El Chalten, back on the open road. What a stunning town, really. What a stunning town. I mean, the location with the mountains around is just... Yeah, if only you could just like turn off the wind somehow, then it would just be like perfect. Got a viewpoint here just above the town. I wanted to turn around so that we could show you guys this view ahead. Look at that. Epic view without even hiking. This is what we couldn't see yesterday. This is Mount Fitzroy, and it's a pretty epic mountain. I thought we just heard the view of our lives, but I think this is the view of our lives. Yeah, we had to turn around and just come back down this hill just to ride with this view in front. Wow. Argentina, I am impressed. Oh, and look at this one here. There's a glacier there as well. Wow. Whoa, it's so worth turning around just to have a look. Oh, yes. Oh, God, absolutely brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. All right, I think it's time to turn around and head back. Yep. Goodbye, Mount Fitzroy. Bye-bye. Bye, El Chanten. Wow, you're super, super beautiful. I'm so glad that we could see it under the blue skies, clear, unbelievable. But now anyway, now it's time for us to head north. So we just stopped at this petrol station here, and it turns out that they don't have any fuel. We just went to the pump to fill up, and they said, no, they don't have any. But then Khalil here, our savior, went and spoke to them and basically told them that we were pretty desperate and we don't really have enough fuel to get to the next petrol station. So they went in the back and brought these guys out, some emergency fuels, like one and a half litres. And apparently this is like for emergencies when people really don't have fuel, just for desperate people like us, hey? Thank you, Khalil, very much. It was because of your sweet talking that they brought those out. Khalil is on his BMW here. Look at this. GS850. It is. Amazing. And where are you headed? Ushuaia. Ushuaia, yes, that's awesome. Where did you start? Santiago. Well, I really hope that we can see each other in Santiago then. That's not cool, man. Yeah. You're welcome. Juice, life for Bumblebee. Enjoy. We see you in Santiago. So we're just leaving the petrol station. The fake petrol station. Yeah, the petrol station with no fuel, except in bottles at the back. They have to be really desperate to get. And we're a little bit worried now because Khalil also told us because he just came from the north and the next town after this is called Gobanara Gregores. And he told us that between there and here is a 73 kilometer stretch of dirt road known as the Damned Highway. And then we ask him, why is it called the Damned Highway? And he says it's basically a very bad conditioned gravel road which with lots of winds, which is basically a motorcycle killer. I'm not excited about that. Yeah, we didn't really know that there was any dirt road coming. So I've got the tires all pumped up and we were just ready to rock and roll. But yeah, apparently it's gonna be a bit of a different day. We've got about 110 miles to Gobanara Gregores. So we're gonna enjoy our asphalt and then we'll have to take on this Damned Highway. Oh, and also we met this other biker who's in front of us now and he's on a Honda 150cc bike. And actually he was looking for fuel at the petrol station as well. And the guy sold him a bottle from the back as well. But then they said that that was literally the last fuel that they had. 13,999.9! 14,000 miles! Woo! Yes! 14,000 miles on the road so far. That's crazy. That actually means that we have now ridden the same amount of miles in South America as we did for the whole of Europe and Africa. Crazy. Because we did just under 7,000 to get all the way from London to Dakar. And now it's been doubled already. 14,000 down, probably 20,000 more to go. Let's do it. So we're just having a little snack break and we've got ourselves, it's a peanut butter wrap but with peanuts inside as well. So it's a peanut butter and peanut wrap. Pretty much just whatever we have in the food bag. And we're hiding in this like ditch down on the side of the road because up here I can tell you the start of the dirt road, the start of the dam for 73 kilometers. Apparently that's like the official name. That's what people call it. So we've let the tire pressure down. We're gonna have a little snack refuel and then we're gonna give it a go. Let's hope for the best. All right. Are you ready to take on the dam 73? No. No, me neither. Let's do it. So we've taken our tire pressure down to the lowest level we've ever taken it. Actually, Khalil was the one who told us. He said, you know what for this bit, you guys should take yourselves down to under 30 psi. So we've taken the front and back down to 28 psi. Khalil says that he runs even lower, like 25. And he just says that for a terrain like this it's just gonna make the ride so much easier and smoother. They're not bouncing on all the stones and when it gets soft, you've got a bit more traction. I don't know, Khalil, we'll give it a go. We'll let you know at the end. Well, I mean, for now it feels actually, fit for it, good. Yeah, except the wind is pushing us into this deep gravel on the edge. It's not good. Oh my God, look at this car there. Ah, this car did not make it. Didn't make it. Got some Guanacos. They're enjoying the damned highway. They're like, oh, it's not so bad actually. Yeah, they're quite chilled. They are quite chilled. Yeah. There's another one over here. Oh, there's a whole group. Yeah. Nice. Hello guys. Guys, have a look at this, what we've just seen on the side of this road. Oh my God. Look at this here. It's a Guanaco that tried to jump over the fence. Wow. But he didn't make it over the fence. Crazy. And this is not the only one we saw, probably like 20, 30, 50 of Guanacos hanging there in the fence. Oh, it makes me so sad. Yeah. These fences are just killing machines. Another reason why they call it the damned highway then. It's damned for the Guanacos as well. So we are now one hour into our journey and we've covered around 25 miles so far. So we're actually over halfway and yes, there have been some bad bits, some deep gravel, some big stones, all of the above, all of the usual suspects. We haven't fallen off yet, which is great. Yes. Yeah, I'm just super happy that the wind is actually in our bags. So yeah, I don't feel any wind. Yeah, I think we were really lucky about that because it's like most people said that it's hitting them from the side here. And so I think that some days you can be really unlucky. But you know, for us today, it's just beautiful. Like it's just been behind us the entire time. Yeah, yeah. It's so good. So good. I'm so happy about that. Yeah, you know, when you take the wind factor out of it, you know, we can deal with the stones. We can deal with the gravel. I say that and then it gets like really stony and really gravity. Careful. There's something up ahead. Oh, wow, look at this. Oh, wow. OK. There's no one in it. Maybe hit the brakes too hard and then slid. Yeah, it looks like you nearly fell off the edge of that cliff. Yeah. Dangerous road, hey? Dangerous roads. It's just too much gravel. I do not understand why they're covering such an amount of gravel. Oh, Mark is here. Woo! And it's amazing we finished that dirt road, dealing exactly the same time as our German friend from the petrol station. Hello. So we've got now about 30, 40 miles to the next town where we can finally fuel up properly. But that is it. We have conquered the dam 73. Woo! Fantasticos. We made it to fuel. Woo! Yes. Bravo. Yeah, I don't know if we would have made it without that extra couple of bottles that we got from the other petrol station really. So yeah, it didn't run out of fuel. Didn't fall over. Perfect. Amazing. We've actually found a place on Ioverlander, which is actually, oh, hold on a second. Wow. OK, here we go. I mean, how am I not going to run these dogs over? Seriously. Wow. We were really cornered by these dogs. Oh my lord. So anyway, we found a place on Ioverlander, which is actually in town. It's a municipal camp. So we're going to head over to there and check it out, make sure it's all right. Because it's getting really late, so it's really time to make camp now. OK. Oh, yeah, I see. So where all these vans are, hey? OK. See if we can find ourselves a spot. Good evening, guys. We made it. Happy and alive. Yes, it's just before sunset as well. It is quite late, and it's already getting dark. So we just basically have to make some dinner and get straight to bed. Yes, so we did at the end 200 miles. And that's it for us today. We hope you enjoyed the episode. If so, please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, share the video with your friends and family. Comment below, and we will see you next time. Good morning, world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 268. Oh, OK, a little bit of traffic in the morning. I think that this piece of grass right in front of the bike is flat enough for us, hey?