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-- From 2017/02/13 to 2017/02/26
-- From Lota to Quintero
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The GPS road tacklog
from Lota to Curanipe
from 2017/02/13 au 2017/02/14

Curanipe

On Monday, February 13th I visited while passing the town of Concepción where I did not find Wifi connection only a Unimarc supermarket to make supply in food. I continued my road up to Curanipe at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Weather was cold and cover. The beach is sumptuous with its basaltic color. There too Wifi connection did not enable me to publish the pictures of my website. Despite everything I remained two days there.

Concepción, click on the pic for opening the gallery

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Curanipe

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The GPS road tacklog
from Curanipe to Parguas Orulla
from 2017/02/15 au 2017/02/16

Las Lomas

On Wednesday, February 15th while passing in the town of Constitución, I found in downtown area a good Wifi connection to publish the pages of my website and to make the press review, always the same political mess  preceding the presidential election, at the end of April and at the beginning of May. Then I found a bivouac after Putu towards Las Lomas. The landscape is wooded and the road skirts the Pacific Ocean in rolling mountain and serpentine. Many companies treating wood mark out the road. Houses are as in Canada and the USA out of bonded wood.

Constitución

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Las Lomas

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Pataguas Orilla

On Thursday, February 16th I made a long detour to go to visit Santa Cruz, the capital of the Chile's wineries. In Plaza de Armas I got information at "Ruta del Vino" to visit the most famous winery in Colchagua Valley. It is Viu Manent where I was going to lunch in the in situ restaurant, highly advisable. Then on the way towards the coast of the Pacific Ocean I stopped to bivouac in a coldly harvested field at Paraguas Orilla.

Santa Cruz

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Pataguas Orilla

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Quintay

The day of the Friday, February 17th started agreeably with a field gleaming of flowers of red color. Splendid vision, without knowing the name of this plant. From San Antonio the road tor Isla Negra was a long succession of cars driving to the stop and go. The visit of the Pablo Neruda's house in Isla Negra was one great moment to plunge in his intimacy with his wife Mathilde, alas, hundred times alas No Picture inside the house. I had decided to bivouac in Quintay at the edge of the ocean. It took me two hours to traverse 45 kilometers. While arriving I noted that it was impossible to approach the ocean. On the road of the return I found a rest area for one night.

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Isla Negra, Casa de Pablo Neruda, click on the pic for opening the gallery

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Quintero

On Saturday, February 18th I arrived at Valparaiso around 10:00. I have enormous difficulties for finding a guarded parking lot close to Plaza Sotomayor. On the port the kiosk of the oficina of tourismo provides me documentation to visit the city and especially to go on a Mural tour. I passed more than three hours to traverse the hill, Cerro Concepción, mounting and descending staircases to finish with a funicular. Along the hill 15 funiculars were built between 1883 and 1916. I photographed 36 murals of which 10 are in the gallery. Palacio Barburizza houses Museo de Bellas Artes, alas No Photo moreover the price for foreigners is much higher than that for the Chileans. I went my way. In the afternoon I sought a bivouac. Since Isla Negra the coast is concreted like the Riviera between Golfe Juan and Nice with a long line of cars as in the month of July and August. I found a bivouac only in Quintero overhanging the Atlantic Ocean. I had bought a plane ticket and reserved a hotel to visit Rapa Nui, Easter Island, from March 4th to March 8th, with two days first to visit Santiago. I was thus in one week advance that I passed in Quintero. Consequently this publication covers until February 26th.

Valparaiso, click on the pic for opening the gallery

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Valparaiso, murals, click on the pic for opening the gallery

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Quintero-1

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Quintero-2

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