 Today we are going to be visiting a petrified forest. Wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's like arriving on another planet. 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 246 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the middle of the Patagonian desert in this beautiful wild camp that we found on Ioverland last night. Yeah, it was really promising that we will have a nice and quiet night, and we were really looking forward to it. But it turned out that it was a storm going on or something like this yesterday night. So it felt like that we kind of like fly away. And the tent was just going crazy. Everything was going crazy. So yeah, there was a lot of wind. I mean, with this giant open landscape, there's just wind everywhere here in Patagonia. It's crazy. So not exactly the peaceful quiet night that we were expecting. But let me show you guys where we're headed today. So we are here, about 40 kilometers, off of the Ruta 3 in this massive Patagonian desert area. And today, we are going to be making our way 10 kilometers more across to the Monumento Nacional Il Reserva Natural Bosque Petrificados, or Petrified Forest. Then we'll be making our way back to the 3 and continuing our journey south, south, south, south, south, all the way to Ushuaia. Look at this. So we just found this literally just over there. This is a piece of petrified wood. Listen, looks like a piece of wood, but it's actually a piece of stone. Well, it was a piece of wood originally, but it's been transformed over millions of years into a piece of stone. So the forest that we're going to be visiting today is not a forest anymore. It's actually a 150 million year old forest. So we are about 10 kilometers away from the National Park. And after our visit, we have to head south, south, south to reach Ushuaia in three days. So we don't know exactly how far we get. We don't know exactly where we're going to camp tonight, but it's already eight o'clock and we have a long way to go. So better hit the road, let's go. All right. So I'm just going to make my way back to the road on my own because it's a little bit soft here. Look. All right. There's the dirt road up there. I'm going to go round over to here. It's a little bit soft. Okay. Cool. Well, hi there, pretty lady. Where are you headed? It looks like a paradise. All right, let's do it. Wow, it's 15 degrees this morning. No way. Yeah, this must be one of our coldest temperatures literally since we got to South America. Yeah. Okay, cool. On our way to the 150 million year old forest. Yes. Oh, wow, look, we're this close to the border of the Park Nacional Bosque Petrificados de Jaramillo. There you go. So the reason we were camping over there is because it's actually prohibited to camp inside the National Park. So you could see we were just there and the park's here. So there we go. You know, don't break the rules. Staying in the rules. Awesome. It's nice here. So nice views. Wow. Oh, look. San Juanico. Yes. Good morning, guys. Amazing. We were just camping over there and there's Guanacos just here. Whoa. Beautiful. Whoa, look at this. Argentina, we love you. So cool riding in the morning. So cool ride, yeah. Amazing. Oh, so nice. Oh, look, Maras. Whoa, Mara. Mara, it's so cute. Look. So cool. Wow. It's a South American relative of the European hare, basically overgrown rabbits. And there was some rain last night here, actually. I could hear it on the tent. Yeah. So we've got quite a lot of little puddles around. Look at these rock formations here. Amazing. What a place. Wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. Look at this. It's like arriving on another planet. Oh my God, really? Whoa. I mean, this is like out of this world, really. Wow. This has got to be one of my favorite places we've ever ridden. This is just like another world. Very unique place here. Yeah, look at all the colors of the rocks. You've got like this red and then a little bit green and yellow. It's just amazing. Look at this. Yeah, it looks unreal. It really looks unreal. And then the Guanico signs here. Yeah. It's nice. Really, really nice. Look at that. Yeah, we saw already tons. Yeah, they love it here. So it looks like we're arriving at the rangers place or the control and some information up here. Okay. Always like a bit of information. Exactly. Okay, I want to work here. If there's anywhere that I want to work it's just chilling in the information center in the middle of this place. Looking out for pumas. Wow. Okay, I think this must be the parking. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. Bye, bubble bee. We will see some of these guys. Yeah. Watch out for dinosaurs. Cool. So this is a little museum of artifacts and things that they have found in this National Park area. And we've got dinosaur bones. Fossilized plants. Wow. Look at this one. Huge shell. Shark teeth. I absolutely loved these ancient arrowheads from Paleolithic hunters. It says here that man arrived here 13,000 years ago. Ah, this is what they would hunt guanacos with. So they would have one of these balls with a string and they would whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh. And knock the guanaco on the head. But here is what this place is named after, is what it's famous for. This might look like a tree branch, but it's made of stone. All of this here is made of stone. Wow, look at this one here. No. And now this is actually wood. Ah. Oh my God, they put a piece of wood in there. And that is much heavier than a piece of wood. Look at that. That is petrified wood. And here it's talking about the process of petrification, about what happens. But essentially the wood gets submerged in the soil and then that's covered and then over millions and millions of years the wood is replaced by leached silica which comes through in the soil and basically fills the cavity where the wood used to be and effectively turning the structure of the wood into stone. And here in this national park is where you can find the largest specimens of fossilized trees in the world. Let's go and check that out. Wow, it's an absolutely beautiful landscape. And over there you can see an ancient volcano. This trail is two kilometers long and takes about one hour. The ranger told us. And we can just see bits of trees everywhere. Look at this. That's a giant tree trunk. Oh my God guys, look at this size of a stone tree. Wow, cool. Wow. This whole area here, 150 million years ago, was a massive forest with dinosaurs eating from the tops of these trees. Incredible. And it's amazing that after all this time we can just see the tree lying here basically where it fell 150 million years ago. Dinosaur may have scratched his butt on the edge of this tree. Or his back or something. So here's the dinosaur. Here's the massive trees that were here. And this is us. And it's funny because this is actually the same dinosaur that we saw the giant statue of outside of Treleo. Look at the size of this dinosaur. Oh my goodness. It was the largest dinosaur to have ever existed and it was living here munching the leaves of these trees. Massive. Guys, look at this massive tree. Absolutely huge. This one here is the largest petrified tree trunk in the world. 47 meters long with a diameter of nearly 2 meters. It looks like every hill has a lid on top. Beautiful. So there we go. Monumento Bosco Petrificados. The petrified forest. Absolutely incredible. It's definitely worth a visit. Yeah, and best of all, it was free. So you don't have to pay an entry fee. You just have to make it down 50 kilometers of dirt road. Yeah, exactly. And the dirt road was beautiful. An amazing ride to get here. I like dirt roads like that. Oh, they are just nice. Yeah, so cool. So cool. And I just liked how there was just... This area just had so much going on from the old petrified forest. And then there was a sea at one point because there were sharks. He found here. And then the ancient humans that were here and all of the sort of arrowheads and paleolithic artifacts that they found in the museum. So you've just got so much going on here. It's just lots and lots and lots of amazing history here in one place. Yeah, incredible. Alright, so we've got a 50 kilometer ride on this dirt road to get back to Ruta National 3 where we'll then continue our way south and see how far we can get. Yeah, unfortunately it's already 12 o'clock and we didn't make any distance today. So we will see how it goes. But we might have to ride until, you know, the late evening. But it was worth it to come and visit this place for sure. Worth the detour. Yes. See you guys. The kilometer dirt road. Done. And we've made some really cool bikers from Brazil as well. Heading down to Ushuaia. Okay, so before we hit the highway we're going to pump back up our tires. Alright. 38 in the front, 42 in the back and that means we're ready for tarmac. Yeah, let's see how far we can get today. It's already 130. Our plan was to ride 300 miles. We've done 39. Yes. Awesome. All fueled up. Lavi's been inside the shop. Oh my Lord, what have you got there? Is that all cheese? It's like the size of my head nearly. Oh my God. Can I see? Whoa, look at that. That's magical. Look at that. How heavy is that? I think it's a kilo probably. I think it's a kilo. Cheese rolls. How was the cheese? That was amazing. We cut ourselves some... Look at that, we used nothing. A nice sandwich with some tomatoes and some salad. Yummy. Good, good nice stuff. There are six cats behind Lavi waiting for food. Mucho eh? Come on, they're very cute. I love the smell of my cheese. This is beyond ridiculous now. I counted 14 cats around us. I'm the cat mom. We've got ourselves a whole herd of guanaco right on the road. Hello guys. Hello guys, come on. Decide where you want to go. Oh my Lord. Come on. Over the left, over the right. Look at these guys. 11,999. 12,000. So it's really funny here in Argentina because everyone is drinking mate the whole day and on each petrol station they have like big water refiller with hot water that everyone can fill up their flask. But we don't have a flask. We just used our pot and we just filled up the whole pot here with hot water that we can have instead of mate. We will have some coffee. It's really nice that they have hot water here everywhere. It was really cheap as well. Like five cents or something. Perfect. A little refresher for you, my love. Awesome. So we're just leaving that petrol station in the small town of San Juan in the middle of this desert region. The temperature at the moment is 15 degrees. So it's literally one of our coldest rides since like England. It's in England, yes. So we have about 130 miles left to our camp spot what we found on Ioverlander. It's just like sort of on the side of the road. So we will just go there and see if it's suitable for us to camp there and the sunset is way later here as well. I think yesterday the sunset was not even like at 10 o'clock. It was like 10.30 or something like that. It was really late. Yeah, yeah. Because we are getting really, really south. The Shwaya where we're heading in two days more is actually nearly 55 degrees south. So it's really, really south. More time to ride, hey. That's right. The temperature has hit 12 degrees and it's been raining quite a lot. So overall I would say pretty harsh conditions today. Patagonia keeps giving us harsh conditions whether it's extreme heat, extreme wind or now raining cold. It's a really crazy place. Crazy place full of nothing. Awesome. Looks like we're just about to arrive at the camping spot that was listed on Ioverlander. Yeah, yeah, here. Here, no? Yeah, here. But maybe I will jump off. Okay. Ho, ho, ho. This road. Nice. Seems all right. Seems all right now. Seems okay. Yeah. Yeah. Look at this little spot, hey. Wow, very exclusive. Yeah. That looks nice. Yeah, it's like down from the road. I reckon if we pull in close to the hill here over there I think we'll be totally hidden from the roads. Yeah, maybe a little bit from the wind as well. Yeah. Yeah, I think this is pretty good. Perfect. Cool. Let's find a spot to pitch the tent. Yes. We got the tent set up. We got a tent set up. We got a tent set up. So what are we having today for dinner? Mush potatoes. And some peas. Classic English way. Mash and peas. Normally you're supposed to have some either fish or some meat with it. But we skipped that. So nice cooking equipment here. Olli is doing over there the computer stuff and I'm in the kitchen. Olli is in the office and I'm in the kitchen. So just boiling up some water. Okay, literally just boil up the water now and chuck the mash in after. But to make it a little bit more tasty I have here some stuff like where is it? Here. One of my favorite vegetable stock. A little bit of onion and a little bit of garlic. So that looks good. Ready in just a minute. Put the peas already in there that they're getting nice and warm. Okay, a minute more and then the water should be quite nice and boiled or I can put a little bit of oil in there as well. Just to make it a little bit more tasty. So just mix the mash potatoes in there. Oh no, it just started really raining. Okay, so we have to get everything ready quickly. There it is. It's like a mountain of mash potatoes with a sprinkled cheese on top. I wouldn't say that's more like a mountain of mash potatoes and a mountain of cheese but we do have a whole two kilo block so yeah, just chuck it on. Chuck that cheese on. Chuck it on. All of the stuff to load, the footage is there and our sleeping stuff is it's a busy place inside the tent at the moment. But anyway we did actually make it all the way down to where we wanted to get to nearly 300 miles. Like very proud of us and this camp is so nice it's just off the road but still the road is not in view and nobody can see us and it's just it feels very very secured and quiet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we're gonna have actually a really nice night. But I said that last night and it was actually like really super super windy and I had a really bad night but it was a beautiful view to wake up to this morning anyway. So that is for us today. We did at the end 280 miles and we hope you enjoyed the episode. 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