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Category: Chile

February 16, 2023

Day 75 Bye bye Southamerica – I’ll be back

So I took the morning bus from Valparaiso to the airport in Santiago and have checked in for my KLM flight to Copenhagen. I…

February 15, 2023

Day 70-74 Final days and shipping bike

The last 500km – and with a slow route towards Valparaiso and Pontoval B&B where I had the first days waiting for the motorcycle…

February 9, 2023

Day 66-69 Pucon, vulcano and wildfires

Arriving in Pucon on the Chilean side of the border was almost another culture shock – this is where everyone owning a Ford F-150…

January 28, 2023

Day 54-56 Magellan Strait and Punta Arenas

Moving from Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas was moving from a small tourist based town to a 200.000 inhabitants city with industry, harbour with…

January 25, 2023

Day 52-53 Torres del Paine

One of the most fameous and must-see places in South America is the national park in Patagonia called Torres del Paine. From El Calafate…

January 19, 2023

Day 47 Marble caves in Rio Tranquillo

This little special post is to give a bit more of the amazing marble caves in Lago Buenos Aries near Rio Tranquillo. Up very…

January 19, 2023

Day 45-46 Carretera Austral part 2

After a few relaxing days in Coyhaique and a needed haircut, next was 450km gravel/dirt on the last parts of the Carretera Austral for…

January 16, 2023

Day 42-44 Carretera Austral part 1

Leaving Chiloe Island by ferry early in the morning with Chaiten as target – only one quarter of the ship full, so calm and…

January 13, 2023

Day 39-41 Service and towards Carretera Austral

Passing into Chile again for service and tire change of the motorcycle – and also a re-pack and cleaning of the rider and equipment….

January 1, 2023

Day 26-29 Happy New Year

Despite many attempts that failed to plan for a meeting here in Southamerica with Josephine and Mads, it actually succeded. Driving from Calama to…

December 29, 2022

Day 25 Into Chile again via the Ollegüe border

It wasn’t really my intention to do a blog on this “transport” stage – but what was intended to be an easy and perhaps…

December 20, 2022

Day 16-17 Putre, Lago Chungará and Chucuyo

The days in and around Putre in the most northern Chile was very impresive – and a good warm-up for the higher grounds in…

December 18, 2022

Day 14-15 Geysers and almost into Peru

Leaving San Pedro de Atacama with many good experiences and a safe feeling of the area, now heading further north reaching the borders of…

December 16, 2022

Day 11-13 San Pedro de Atacama

Four days and three nights in and around San Pedro de Atacama – to be a tourist and to reflect on whether Peru is…

December 13, 2022

Day 9-10 The Atacama region

News of troubles in Peru came today, and demonstrations have started so the new President has issued a State of Emergency, shutting down internal…

December 12, 2022

Day 7-8 Earthquake, first 600km and stars

04.26 I woke up and the bed and house was vibrating – my first ever earthquake. I must admit it took some minutes to…

December 10, 2022

Day 5-6 Finally the pickup of the bike

After a day just relaxing at the pool, reading e-books and planning the first couple of travel days, Friday came and it was time…

December 7, 2022

Day 2-4 – Santiago, Valparaiso and being tourist

So after the first relaxing day at the hostel meeting new friends and drinking a few beers, Monday it was time to be tourist…

December 4, 2022

Day 1 – getting to Chile

December 3rd I left Copenhagen, via Helsinki and Miami to touch down 24 hours later in Santiago, Chile. Two short stop-overs so just a…

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