BacLum on the bike

08/11/11 - On remonte vers le nord

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Bonjour a tous, Ca y est on commence a remonter vers le nord apres une nuit confortable et plusieurs rencontres a l'hostel antartica: Premiers km dans les montagnes proche d'ushuaia: Et premier col (passo garibaldi) vaincu avec un vent et un froid de...

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07/11/11 National park "Tierra del Fuego"

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Second 5 stars camp. But the night was colder then in the airport: No comments...the park is a really good introduction for this trips, going up and down on the pists in a wild landscape. And also a single trail to test the maniability of our bikes. Between...

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06/11/11 At the south of no where

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After our nice night in the airport, we wake up wice a wonderful journey. No wind, 20ºc and yhe sun shine... First kms to reach the city of Usuaia. As eal tourists we offer us a boat tour on the beaggle Chanel with Hector the captain of the "Tres Marias"...

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05/11/11 Transfer to Ushuaia

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Arriving by plane above The Beagle Channel, 21.30 and there is still light... After few mechanic operations, bikes and luggages are ready...but it's midnight and the police allow us to sleep in the Usuaia airport: First 5 stars camp !!!

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3-4/11/11 Barra de Guaratiba

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Today we leave Rio. We go for 2 days at 50km from Rio at Barra de Guaratiba. There we are hosted by Ricardihno, Laila et Vanessa in a lovely house just in front of the Mangrovia Laguna. There it is as well a very long tongue of land which is a natural...

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2/11/11 And the sun finally came!

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After the first quite cloudy days the sun finally came and, together with Letitia, her kid and Fanny, we could enjoy a great sun bath at Copacabana! Then in the afternoon, in order a too serious tropical sun burn, we decide to stop the beach session and...

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1/11/11 Pan de Azuçar!

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Of course, as every tourist visiting Rio, we couldn't escape to the temptation to go at the top of "Sugar Bread"... there we could observe some nice little inhabitants... and enjoy the great view on Rio by day... and at the sunset when the giant birds...

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31/11/11 Discovering Rio in a rainy day...

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Of course we don't want to remain at Sofitel which is "a bit" out of our budget and we prefer to move to Letitia mum, Mireille, who has a lovely B&B (link) just few hundreds meters from the beach. There we meet also Fanny, the sister of Letitia and tourist...

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30/10/11 First day in Rio de Janeiro!

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The first night we can sleep in the Sofitel,together with the Air France crew, just in front to Copacabana beach. Next morning we wake up a bit early and we can profit of a nice walk along the see on a rare empty beach. In fact it's Sunday and in few...

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29/10/11 Flying to Rio!

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Here we go! Now we have just to bring our 2m long bike boxes all through the Paris airport till to the Air France check in point... Luckily there was Letitia, brasilian Air France hostess in holiday, who help us with the luggage. And finally here we are...

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