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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...
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...
When we leave Puerto Natales the sun is shining in the sky and we feel very positive and full of energy. Cycling along the bay we can see beatiful black neck swans swommomg in the more and more strong waves... in fact the weather is already changing and...
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...
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...
Au petit matin dehors le vent souffle tres fort et l'air froid rentre de partout dans notre "chambre" mais Ilaria dort bien au chaud dans son duvet, on se demande comment elle fait pour respirer: On part le vemt dans le nez cette fois ci. On avance difficilement...
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...
Ca y est on attaque la fameuse pampa de la patagonie: Heureusement on a le vent dans le dos et on arrive facilement apres 70km a l'estancia Viamonte ou le proprietaire pas tres locace nous loge dans l'ancienne maison des ouvriers: Tout confort: Ilaria...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Rodeo - Villa Union -Chile Cito -Cafayate - Salta link to the map Hi all, It is a bit more than one month that our bike tour is finished. Arthur is since the beginning of May back to "norma lworking life" in Lausanne and Ilaria, still in nomadic mood,...
Hi all, As written in the last post, we came back to Punta Arenas in order to ride the Patagonia from Magellan Channel to El Chalten at the bottom of the famous FitzRoy. This time we will try to face the wind and cold. So the 27th of november we cycle...
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...
Salta - Jujuy -Quebrada de Humauaca - Quiaca (Bolivian border) link to the map Dear All, as always in life, one makes plans and then things ended to be different...and of course this happen as well in our travel... Till to yesterday, when we cross the...
La Serena - Vicuña - Juntas del Toro - Paso Agua Negra - Guardia Vieja link to the map Dear All, So after Ilaria recovers from her stomach-ache we take the road toward east in the direction of Agua Negra Pass. We are now at the sea level and we have to...
Valparaiso - Vina del Mar - Concon - Pichicuy - Huentelauquen - Socos - La Serena link to the map Hi everybody, After Valparaiso our new objectives are to ride till to La Serena, then pass throgh the Elqui Valley and finally cross the Agua Negra Pass...
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...
After many days of hard "cycling work" we decide that we need a pause to recover physical and mental energy before starting the Carretera Austral: thenext part of our bike tour. For our "holidays in the holidays" we decide to stay in El Chalten the youngest...
