måndag 26 november 2012
Chaiten-Puerto Cardenas-wild camp 30km before La Junta
Chonchi - Quellon: 76 km
Quellon - Chaiten by boat
Chaiten - Pto. Cardenas: 52 km
Pto Cardenas - wild camp: 63 km
Total: 853 km
Patagonia, rainy Chaiten, Puerto Cardenas, wild camp towards Puyuhuapi
Cucao National Park and Chonchi
Dalcahue and Castro
Ancud - Dalcahue: 69 km
Dalcahue - Chonchi: 40 km
Total: 662 km
Dalcahue and Castro
Restday in Puyuhuapi
So now we are on the carreterra austral and we are amazed how beautiful it is. Feels like the mountains and valleys of the European alps. We had one day on paved road from Chaitèn to Puerto Cardenas and in was a smooth ride. We had company with one american biker aswell and stayed in a very nice but expensive campground in Puerto Cardenas. It was worth the money though because we could go inside and snuggle up next to a fireplace wich was very nice when it was a bit rainy.
The next day we continued towards La Junta but it would be to far for us to get there in one day so we prepared to wildcamp. The first 30km was hard on very bad gravelroad and ups and downs. But after Villa Santa Lucia where we got some food the gravel got better and we could start to enjoy the beautiful views. It was cloudy and we got some drops of rain but it was ok. After some searching we saw a nice spot next to a river to camp and we saw a house nearby so we asked the guy there if we could camp and it was no problem. The evening was so nice and we felt asleep fast after 63km on gravel road. When we woke up the next morning it was the best view ever over the river and mountains.
We started biking late, around 10am so we didn't know how far we would come that day. We wanted atleast come to la Junta wich was a bit bigger town (nothing is big around here). Everthing was closed though because it was sunday so we continued biking. The day was beautiful eventhough we got some rain but just very very short showers and we enjoyed the ride. When we stopped for lunch close to a river marco got naked and did a fast shower. The day was long and the last 10km we where tired but close to 7pm we approched Puyuhuapi. A cute and nice little town with mountains all around and a bay where the ocean comes in. We found a nice campsite and had pasta and talked with two dutchpeople with their camper. We where very happy and tired after 77km on gravel road so we celebrated with some beer and had a good night sleep.
Today is restday and the sun is shining. We found a small libary with free internet, yeah!!!
Tomorrow we continue soth but it is getting long distance between the towns so tomorrow we have to wildcamp until we get to the next campsite. We are biking towards Villa Amengual.
We are happy and really really love it here in Patagonia. The people are friendly and the nature is amazing!
The next day we continued towards La Junta but it would be to far for us to get there in one day so we prepared to wildcamp. The first 30km was hard on very bad gravelroad and ups and downs. But after Villa Santa Lucia where we got some food the gravel got better and we could start to enjoy the beautiful views. It was cloudy and we got some drops of rain but it was ok. After some searching we saw a nice spot next to a river to camp and we saw a house nearby so we asked the guy there if we could camp and it was no problem. The evening was so nice and we felt asleep fast after 63km on gravel road. When we woke up the next morning it was the best view ever over the river and mountains.
We started biking late, around 10am so we didn't know how far we would come that day. We wanted atleast come to la Junta wich was a bit bigger town (nothing is big around here). Everthing was closed though because it was sunday so we continued biking. The day was beautiful eventhough we got some rain but just very very short showers and we enjoyed the ride. When we stopped for lunch close to a river marco got naked and did a fast shower. The day was long and the last 10km we where tired but close to 7pm we approched Puyuhuapi. A cute and nice little town with mountains all around and a bay where the ocean comes in. We found a nice campsite and had pasta and talked with two dutchpeople with their camper. We where very happy and tired after 77km on gravel road so we celebrated with some beer and had a good night sleep.
Today is restday and the sun is shining. We found a small libary with free internet, yeah!!!
Tomorrow we continue soth but it is getting long distance between the towns so tomorrow we have to wildcamp until we get to the next campsite. We are biking towards Villa Amengual.
We are happy and really really love it here in Patagonia. The people are friendly and the nature is amazing!
torsdag 22 november 2012
stronger legs and heading towards Patagonia
Biking is fun but it makes you very tired so we have been taking it a bit slower the last week.
We stayed in Dalqahue for 3 days in a camping with a nice old couple. This is also where we met our first other tourbiker, Jairo from Colombia. A very hippie guy that was selling homemade necklaces and earrings to pay for his trip. He recomended us to a place in Chonchi so we continued our ride there and had a nice day with sunshine and only 40km.
In Chonchi we met the best man so far on this trip and Marco felled a little bit in love, Juan-Carlo! He kind of had a camping that was pretty much just his garden. The bathroom and kitchen we shared with him in his house. He lived very simpel with only cold water and the only kind of heating was a big stove in the middle of the biggeroom where we sat and had nice conversations. To clean was probably not his favourite thing to do but with only cold water in the shower we we´re not that clean neither. We camped in the garden for one night but then when it started raining the second day we moved in to one of his rooms and stayed on some matresses. He told us he don't fix up the garden to much cuz he likes when people come in to the house to eat and hang out.
Juan-Carlo cooked some traditional seaweed soup and gave us so much joy just hanging around his house and his happy face. He is 55 years old and likes to works sometimes but not to much. He had a really tranqiullo attitude to life. He has travellers coming to him all year around and I think they come there surely only because he has so much hospitality. He puts pictures of all people who stayed with him on his wall.
Today we got upp early and pedal 70km up and down and up and down and I think Marco already misses Juan-Carlo alot maybe he was a bit of a substitute to Petter at home. It was a strange day cuz it rained, it hailed, it was warm with sunshine and windy. We went through all types of weathers but finally we arrived in Quellon. We feel stronger and I think our legs and asses are starting to get use to this new activity. Now we are trying to spend our time here in this ugly, boring town. The people seems nice though and Marco is talking and talking to everyone he sees, all excited with this new language spanish. I do some kind of mix with my italian and some spanish and some understand me and some not at all but then you can always just smile.
We still eat almost every night pasta, tomatoesauce and cheese. Lunch is choclates and bread with mayo. I love that I just eat anything cuz with all this biking who can get fat?!
The dogs is still a problem but I am starting to get use to them and we are still trying this new talking to them instead of run away thing. It works on some of the dogs.
What I miss so far is a glass of milk strangely enough.
Otherwise we feel very happy!
It is going to be fun to start riding carreterra austral!
We stayed in Dalqahue for 3 days in a camping with a nice old couple. This is also where we met our first other tourbiker, Jairo from Colombia. A very hippie guy that was selling homemade necklaces and earrings to pay for his trip. He recomended us to a place in Chonchi so we continued our ride there and had a nice day with sunshine and only 40km.
In Chonchi we met the best man so far on this trip and Marco felled a little bit in love, Juan-Carlo! He kind of had a camping that was pretty much just his garden. The bathroom and kitchen we shared with him in his house. He lived very simpel with only cold water and the only kind of heating was a big stove in the middle of the biggeroom where we sat and had nice conversations. To clean was probably not his favourite thing to do but with only cold water in the shower we we´re not that clean neither. We camped in the garden for one night but then when it started raining the second day we moved in to one of his rooms and stayed on some matresses. He told us he don't fix up the garden to much cuz he likes when people come in to the house to eat and hang out.
Juan-Carlo cooked some traditional seaweed soup and gave us so much joy just hanging around his house and his happy face. He is 55 years old and likes to works sometimes but not to much. He had a really tranqiullo attitude to life. He has travellers coming to him all year around and I think they come there surely only because he has so much hospitality. He puts pictures of all people who stayed with him on his wall.
Today we got upp early and pedal 70km up and down and up and down and I think Marco already misses Juan-Carlo alot maybe he was a bit of a substitute to Petter at home. It was a strange day cuz it rained, it hailed, it was warm with sunshine and windy. We went through all types of weathers but finally we arrived in Quellon. We feel stronger and I think our legs and asses are starting to get use to this new activity. Now we are trying to spend our time here in this ugly, boring town. The people seems nice though and Marco is talking and talking to everyone he sees, all excited with this new language spanish. I do some kind of mix with my italian and some spanish and some understand me and some not at all but then you can always just smile.
We still eat almost every night pasta, tomatoesauce and cheese. Lunch is choclates and bread with mayo. I love that I just eat anything cuz with all this biking who can get fat?!
The dogs is still a problem but I am starting to get use to them and we are still trying this new talking to them instead of run away thing. It works on some of the dogs.
What I miss so far is a glass of milk strangely enough.
Otherwise we feel very happy!
It is going to be fun to start riding carreterra austral!
onsdag 14 november 2012
Ensenada-Puerto Montt-Ancud
Puerto Octay - Ensenada: 63 km
Ensenada - Angelmo (Pto. Montt): 76 km
Angelmo - Ancud: 88 km
Total: 535 km
Ensenada and our way to Puerto Montt and the ferry on our way to Ancud
Rio Bueno-Puerto Octay
Panguipulli - Los Lagos: 63 km
Los Lagos - Rio Bueno: 75 km
Rio Bueno Puerto Octay: 86 km
Total: 304 km
On our way to Puerto Octay from Rio Bueno and finally beautiful Puerto Octay and Volcan Osorno
Santiago-Villarica-Conaripe-Panguipulli
Villarrica-Coñaripe: 44km
Coñaripe-Panguipulli: 35km
Total 79 km
Summary
Hejsan! Ciao! Hola!
So this trip has so far been totaly wonderful. We started out in Santiago and stayed two nights with my fathers friends son Miguel and his family. Miguel picked us up at the airport and let us stay in his house. They where so nice and gave us a pefect start in Chile.
We tried to take it slow in the begining but it is hard to find smaller roads that are with pavement instead of gravel so we have had two long days on a highway and our only day with rain was one of these days, less fun.
It is easy to find campingspots and our maindish in the evenings are pasta with toamtoesauce and cheese. Lunch is bread, coockies and choclates.
Places that was beautiful and worth a resting day was in Puerto Octay and Ensenada both small cities with great views over the two volcanos Osorno and Calbuco and next to beautiful lakes.
No problems with the bikes so far and no punctures. The big problem here are all the dogs that chase us down the roads sometimes. Maybe just for playing but some look pretty threatful and makes us pedal as fast as we can.
We are now in Ancud a city on the Isola of Chiloe and it is beautiful here so we are hanging out for about two days. We are later biking south and taking a boat to Chaiten to start the carretera austral.
This is what we biked so far:
Villarica-Conaripe 44km
Conaripe-Panguipulli 35km
Panguipuli-Los Lagos 63km
Los Lagos-Rio Bueno 75km
Rio Bueno-Puerto Octay 86km
Puerto Octay-Ensenada 63km
Ensenada-Puerto Montt 76km
Puerto Montt-Ancud 88km
So this trip has so far been totaly wonderful. We started out in Santiago and stayed two nights with my fathers friends son Miguel and his family. Miguel picked us up at the airport and let us stay in his house. They where so nice and gave us a pefect start in Chile.
We tried to take it slow in the begining but it is hard to find smaller roads that are with pavement instead of gravel so we have had two long days on a highway and our only day with rain was one of these days, less fun.
It is easy to find campingspots and our maindish in the evenings are pasta with toamtoesauce and cheese. Lunch is bread, coockies and choclates.
Places that was beautiful and worth a resting day was in Puerto Octay and Ensenada both small cities with great views over the two volcanos Osorno and Calbuco and next to beautiful lakes.
No problems with the bikes so far and no punctures. The big problem here are all the dogs that chase us down the roads sometimes. Maybe just for playing but some look pretty threatful and makes us pedal as fast as we can.
We are now in Ancud a city on the Isola of Chiloe and it is beautiful here so we are hanging out for about two days. We are later biking south and taking a boat to Chaiten to start the carretera austral.
This is what we biked so far:
Villarica-Conaripe 44km
Conaripe-Panguipulli 35km
Panguipuli-Los Lagos 63km
Los Lagos-Rio Bueno 75km
Rio Bueno-Puerto Octay 86km
Puerto Octay-Ensenada 63km
Ensenada-Puerto Montt 76km
Puerto Montt-Ancud 88km
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