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-- From 2017/02/05 to 2017/02/12
-- From the border to Lota
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The GPS road tacklog
from the border to Villarrica
from 2017/02/05 au 2017/02/08

Paso Carirriñe

Enter Chile, CL

On Sunday, February 5th I entered Chile around 9:50 a.m. after 22 km of track from Lago Curruhué. The international border is at 1152 meters of altitude. Formalities as well Argentinian side as Chilean side lasted the time necessary to fill the forms. I was alone. The coating of the Chilean track is of better quality.

Valdivia

On the way I admired the snow-covered perfect cone of the Villarica volcano in activity at 2840 meters of altitude. In Valdivia I found a bivouac in a street overhanging the Callecalle river in a residential district.

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On Monday morning the February 6th I was going to make my shopping of booklets at the oficina of turismo to note that there was a good Wifi connection which enabled me to publish the pages of my website like making a press review of the French newspapers. Then I walked neighborhood to the market with cormorants and sea lions. Then I made my shopping at the Unimarc supermarket after being entered in Chile with the empty refrigerator, of course. In the afternoon I returned to my bivouac in the camino de la Luna.

Valdivia, click la photo pour ouvrir la galerie

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Villarrica

On Tuesday, February 7th I stopped in Villarrica on the edges of Lago Villarrica at the bottom of eponymous volcano. In spite of a number of campers I remained two days of rest. But the second day was with an overcast sky without view on the volcano in the clouds.

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At sunrise After sunrise
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The GPS road tacklog
from Villarrica to Rio Malleco
from 2017/02/09 au 2017/02/09

Rio Malleco

After having left Villarrica and its volcano I took the highway up to Temuco, no stop, then Collipulli where I forked towards Angol then Lota at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. I stopped at the beginning of afternoon at a few km off the ruta #180 at the edge of Rio Malleco to bivouac.

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The GPS road tacklog
from Rio Malleco to Lota
from 2017/02/10 au 2017/02/12

Lota

On Friday, February 10th I arrived at Lota around midday. The city did not hold my attention. I immediately sought a place of bivouac on Playa Blanca where there was nobody. I settled there at ease enough far from the huts of restoration to avoid the noise of sound wirings. But gradually as from 14:00 cars with families came to bind around my truck in an good child atmosphere. I hope that the night will be peaceful because I hoped to remain there until Monday morning. The temperature was pleasant, 17°C, but the water of the Atlantic Ocean was cold, little of bathers.

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Playa Blanca at noon
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Sunset at Playa Blanca

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