BacLum on the bike

25/2-6/3/12 Pacific Coast part 2: From Conception to Valparaiso

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Canete - Conception - Rio Itata - Curanipe - Putu - Bucalemu - Litueche - Valparaiso link to the map Hi every body, FIrst of all we want to share with you our great day in Canete to update the blog with this photo taken on purpose for you... Typical expression...

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16-24/2/12 Pacific Coast part 1: People from Chile...

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New organisation, now before each article we will name the place we cross. It would be easier to situate us. Villarica - Teodoro Schmidt - Trovolhue - Tirua - Canete Link to the Map Dear All, in this count we will tell you about our transition from the...

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11-15/2/12 Lake and Volcanoes part 2

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Hi all, First of all, after many (bad) comments about Arthur's moustache, he finally decides to cut it and suddainly looses 10 years... No moustache version...18 years old Bac version... But let's continue with our story! After the legs are recoverend...

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6-7/2/12 Volcano Lanin Ascent

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Hi all, Here a small digression with no bikes, but with crampons and ice axes. In fact in San Martin de los Andes we decide to climb Volcan Lanin, 3376m, wich is supposed to be the highest patagonian argentinian volcan. As we are in a National Park and...

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2-10/2/12 Lakes and Volcanoes part 1

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Hi everybody, After few days resting and relaxing in Puerto Montt, we continue now toward North. From the ospedaje the street climbs directly up and offers us a nice view on the ocean and the city. Puerto Montt from the hill. The next village on our road...

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24/1-1/2/12 Puerto Montt and Chiloe Island

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Dear All, The first half of our travel is coming to the end, the Carrettera Austral with its wilderness is behind us, 2500 km whom 1500 km of ripio are in our legs... is definitely time for a new story, a different story! This story talks about the biggest...

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6-23/1/12 Carrettera Austral part 3

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Dear All, Let's go back to our travel report! Finally we spent almost one week in Coihaique relaxing, meeting people from all the ages and all the countries, sharing with them ideas and international meals... Eating Arthur's handmade crepes each of us...

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What will be next?

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After 4 days resting in Coyhaique and enjoying the nice atmosphere of Hostal Salamandra, tomorrow we will take again our bike and continue north along the Carretera Austral. The next main city is Chaiten. Here we will have three choices: 1) continuing...

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26/12/11-6/1/12 Carretera Austral part 2

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Hi Folks! So after a nice Christmas we leave Tortel with definitively a best weather than when we arrived. Carretera we are back! Now we can finally continue cycling in summer configuration: shorts, T-shirt, sunglasses, suncream (very important) and hut....

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15-25/12/11 Carretera Austral part 1

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Hello everybody! We hope end year holidays have been good and we wish you all the best for 2012!!! So after nearly one month without news, (but "No news, good news", of course), let's continue with our travel story. To refresh the memory, we spent 10...

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