Argentina To Chile Border Crossing At Paso Los Libertadores, By Motorcycle

Leaving Mendoza. Mendoza is such a pretty beautiful city but today we are off to Chile. I plan to go most of the way to Ushuaia through Argentina but I've been told that for motorcycle and automotive related stuff because the taxes here and the dollar, the way the dollar is, it's a lot cheaper to get stuff done in Chile. So we're gonna head across the border to Chile. In order to do that we got to cross Paso Libertadores. Paso Libertadores I believe. Not everybody's parking there for just a view of the river. Oh that's the town. I get it. The parking's for the town. Okay. Must be able to get in there. Well maybe not. We'll see what it's about. I don't know if I'm allowed to go this way. We're gonna find out. Oh look at all that. Okay I see why they said to come here. It's just a really cool little tourist town. Wine. Hola buenas. ¿Quieres estacionar para almorzar? No, creo que no. Pero yo vi eso y quedo... Es delicioso. Bueno, si quieres podemos acá en la moto un ratito. Ah, okay. Y almorzado, bueno, si vienes a las termas, tenemos cámaras de seguridad. Gracias. Muchas gracias. ¿Pero hacia donde viajas? Santiago. Muy bien. A pasear en doble linea. Ah, okay. Perdoname. Tenes cuidado. Gracias. Hasta luego. I think there's train tracks underneath that, but I don't know. Oh, it's probably just to keep snow and stuff off of the train tracks. That's what I think it is. No idea, but I saw some other cars going this way. I'm thinking maybe it's a cooler way. Oh, my fingers are getting quite cold. I'm going to be skipping this line, I'm sorry to say. People are going to be very angry with me. ¿Es posible aquí? Y después ustedes. Gracias. ¿Más o menos cuánto tiempo? Tres horas. No. ¿En serio? Spent about an hour creeping through the line. And the guy asked me, like, well, how long were you in the line for? And I told him about an hour, hour and a half. And I asked him how long was left. He told me it was another hour to get through these cars here ahead of me, so I don't know how it moves this slow. This is just insanity. I check, like, every inch of every car. He said that they're not looking for drugs. It's an ecological island. They make, you know, fruit or animal products. I guess he's picking that off. That does make sense. I was going to say, you'd hardly be hiding fruit. Oh, you know. You'd hardly be hiding fruit in your hood. But I guess stuff could get caught in there. Oh, that was honestly a bit of a ******* nightmare. Partially because I have a headache, but this three hours, they had no idea. They kept sending me to different places. Telling me I was wrong. Telling me, oh, no, you have to do this. No, you've got to go back there. It's in another building. And I didn't expect it. It seems like one of the more structured. I'd very much recommend if you're entering Chile, if you can avoid it, don't do it there. Just want to get down in elevation before the sun drops. It's going to get very cold. Okay, so we've made it out of the snow-capped mountains and into the foothills of the Andes. The sun is rapidly setting. We've got about an hour left. Man, it's so beautiful. It's like a fairy tale. Alright, well, after a very long day, finally made it to Santiago. And incredible ride through the Paso Libertadores. But the board itself was just a little bit confusing. They told you to get in one line, but then that line didn't have everything. It's supposed to be Chile and Argentina, but I had to park the bike and go over to another line and hold people. Just surprisingly disorganized. It was such a really big, busy border. But the ride was absolutely beautiful through all the snow-covered mountains. That's really cool, on the bike, riding through the snow-covered mountains. If you're going to do Paso Libertadores, I would recommend entering from Chile into Argentina. That way you don't have to wait for all the agricultural checks and everything. It was just absolutely insane. But we finally made it. Really, really cool ride. I've dropped the bike off at the Honda dealership. There's quite a bit of stuff that I've got to get done on the bike. It's about 70,000 kilometers. I've just got to do some TLC on it. I've done regular oil changes and everything, but it needs a little bit of extra love. I'm going to do a chain, all the filters, the fuel, air filter, everything, and the heated grips aren't working. I've got to get that fixed. It just needs a little bit of love. That's all. After that, I've got to wait a little while to get the bike back, and then we continue on Ruta 40. I'm going to do a little bit of the Carretera Austral heading south in Chile, and then cross back over to Argentina. It's just so much cheaper, and head south. Thank you so much for watching, and check back in.