The Real Line: Villa O’Higgins – El Chaltén

My bike doesn't float on this stuff either.

The Carretera Austral is sometimes called the road at the end of the road, because it starts more or less at the end of the Pan-American Highway (depending how exactly you define that one) and continues south from there. But now we’ve reached its end too and there’s no more road to continue on. So… Continue reading The Real Line: Villa O’Higgins – El Chaltén

The End: Cochrane – Villa O’Higgins

Sunny, cloudy, windy, Patagonian!

In Cochrane I started by going to a car mechanic I had already seen when I entered town. He couldn’t weld my rack and according to him there’s no aluminium welder here. He had another bike rack out of steel, but there’s no way that will fit my bike because of the rear suspension and… Continue reading The End: Cochrane – Villa O’Higgins

Into the Wild: Coyhaique – Cochrane

Some fancy lodges sitting between two lakes.

The meetings continued in Coyhaique. When I was walking back from picking up my laundry I saw Tim and Timo entering town, who will stay here tomorrow. The fuel bottle for my camp stove was almost empty, so I’d been looking for white gas for a while, but unable to find it. Thus I went… Continue reading Into the Wild: Coyhaique – Cochrane

Cyclist Central: Puyuhuapi – Coyhaique

The ferry was already waiting and left soon after.

Monday 27 November On Monday I didn’t feel like spending a full day in Puyuhuapi, there’s not that much to see and do in town. So I got on my bike for the short ride to Parque Nacional Queulat. The road was good and easy, but some 10 km in it was blocked completely because… Continue reading Cyclist Central: Puyuhuapi – Coyhaique

Pinochet’s Prestige Project: Futaleufú – Puyuhuapi

I’m currently heading from one legendary road to the next. Just a few days ago I left Ruta 40 in Argentina behind, only to soon join the Chilean Carretera Austral, the southern highway that Pinochet started building in the 1970s with the goal of connecting remote settlements in the south to the rest of Chile… Continue reading Pinochet’s Prestige Project: Futaleufú – Puyuhuapi