Up for sunrise over the campground and an early start to the day as we had to be at the Darwin Expediciones centre by 7:45am for a 8:00 departure on the boat to the island (Isla pingüino) 25 km South… Continue reading

We had a reasonable early start after an ok breakfast and after I somehow managed to delete a large section of my previous post which I quickly tried to re-type but the first version was better 🙄. We rode South… Continue reading

We started the day with our morning wake up call from Vienna and a very nice breakfast. Then we got some help from the very friendly guy at the front desk who spoke English to find a Western union bank… Continue reading

We enjoyed a late breakfast at our empty campground and reluctantly packed up. We could have easily stayed another night but had already made a hotel booking in the next town on the Atlantic coast. I include some images of… Continue reading

We started the day with another nice breakfast with a view of the surrounding mountains and some unique and interesting art displayed in the hotel. Then I went shopping for our next camping stop. This time I was asked to… Continue reading

We started the today with a lovely breakfast at our hotel in Bariloche. I got some supplies from a local supermarket for lunch and for camping which we are planning in the next few days. Today was our longest ride… Continue reading

After nice breakfast we took Route 40 South which becomes the Camino de los siete lagos ( the Road of the seven lakes) from San Martin de los Andes onwards. We expected pretty scenic views but today’s ride was just… Continue reading

We had another delicious breakfast- this time with coffee 😉 – with getting hit by bird poo twice from a bird of prey ( maybe a Chimango caracara? ) sitting in the branches above our table. We then packed up… Continue reading

Well, our dinner with nice wine had a few set backs at our first night camping at Lake Caburgua: first the only cork screw we have on a pocket knife (came as a free gift from some catalogue my Dad… Continue reading

After getting some dinero in Temuco from an ATM and a lovely breakfast we had a shorter ride today again avoiding highways and getting closer to the mountains, lakes and volcanoes. We stopped for fuel and food in Villarrica and… Continue reading