2023 Alice Springs To ….

11/10 Arrive Yulara, 30km

10/10 30km to Stop at Curtin Springs, then depart 4:30pm, into night, 59.8km to camp at Sandy Way Rest Stop, two other campers, cattle truck stopped from about 11pm to 3am.

9/10 30km from Curtin Springs, East Curtin Strings Rest Stop, noone else there, water in tank. 100km, 4:46

8/10 Kings canon Road Junction camp, 78km, 4:36

7/10 Past Henbury Meteor crater, 79km 4:19

6/10 Stuarts well road house, 70km

5/10 Camp on Hugh River road, 70km, 4:41

4/10 Depart Alice Springs to Ooraminna Homestead camp ground 44.8 km,

Heading home, final South America post

2016-09-01 Rest and Food day in Putre, conemplating what am I doing here.

2016-09-02 Decided to head to the coast, dropping 3500m sounds good. Road works for last 20km, and stop and camp in restaurant car park. 96km in 4:52

2016-09-03 Down along the Rio Luta to Arica and the coast. 62 km in 3:15

2016-09-04 Day in Arica

2016-09-05 Day in Arica

2016-09-06 Bus to Iquique

2016-09-07 Day in Iquique

2016-09-08 Ride up out of Iquique to Polo Alimote, across the desert, nothing grows. 67 km in 5:01

2016-09-09 To Minena, hot springs at 2700m. 76 km in 6:03

2016-09-10 Day in Minena

2016-09-11 Back down to Iquique, 127km in 5:36

2016-09-12 Day in Iquique

2016-09-13 along the desert coast. 66km in 4:18

2016-09-14 To camp along coast. 71 km in 4:53

2016-09-15 Along coast, camp. 82km in 5:21

2016-09-16 Into Tocopillia. 30km in 2:11

2016-09-17 climb away from coast. To camp site on Rio Loa. Where there is water there is life, Rio Loa is green line in the desert. Drinking 3l of water in a day. 85 km in 5:34

2016-09-18 Across desert to camp before Calama. 69km in 5:21

2016-09-19 Through Calama. Its a public holiday (Chile’s national day) and most shops ar closed. Camp. 86 km in 5:31

2016-09-20 Into SanPedro. 58km in 3:35

2016-09-21 To Tocona, camp just south. 63km in 3:31

2016-09-22 back to SanPedro, via Laguna Cajar. 68km in 3:42

2016-09-23 bus to Calama to pick up Michaela.

2016-09-24 Day in SanPedro

2016-09-25 Day ride to Valley of the moon.

2016-09-26 Tour to altoplano lakes.

2016-09-27 day in SanPedro

2016-09-28 Jeep tour to Salar de Uyuni, stay in villa mar

2016-09-29 to the salt hotel on the edge of the salt lake

2016-09-30 To Uyuni and then back to villa mar

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2016-10-01 Return to SanPedro

2016-10-02 To Guatin to camp. 30km in 3:21

2016-10-03 To camp near Machuca. 24km in 2:48

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2016-10-04 Return down hill to SanPedro, dropping 1500m. 46km in 2:15

2016-10-05 bus to Calama. get givern bike box from bike shop in mall.

2016-10-06 Packing bike.

2016-10-07 flight to Santiago. Transfer to airport from hotel. Easy checkin with bike in box.

All 1800+ photos are here South America 2016Photos

Iquique to SanPedro de Atacama

Trip to Mamina first, then down the spectacular coast to Tocopillia, and upnto San Pedro de Atacama.

Download file: Iquique-SanPedro.gpx

Putre, Chile, off the cold altiplano

2016-08-19 Dept Puno, only made 20 km, still no energy. nice plac2 to stay in Chucuito

2016-08-20 Juli, along main road, some traffic.

2016-08-21 Copacabana, entered Bolivia

2016-08-22 Copa

2016-08-23 Copa

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2016-08-24 inca utama hotel and… bad headache

2016-08-25 bituman first 50km, last 15 km really bad road with trucks. fir brickworks. Laja to Vicga, storm with light snow falling.

2016-08-26 to Caquiaviri, rough washboard road. 66 km. Only one hostel, very basic. Two restaurants.

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2016-08-27 camp 12 just passed Achiri, hard gravel road. Villages are getting smaller.

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2016-08-28 camp after Inoca, hard-one 43km, into headwind, average 10km/hr. 43km 4:18

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2016-08-29 to Chanara, Bolivian boarder town. another headwind day, wind started at 10am, very cold all day. 31km in 3:31

2016-08-30 through border, gave up veggies to Chile customs, no Chilean pesos to purchase anything else. Turned onto bitumen road along boarder. 65km, 4:36 road side camp, very cold.

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2016-08-31 continue rolling to Putre, headwind started about 12, had to push over a pass, and then peddle down hill to get anywhere. Dropped 800m in 30km.

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2016-09-01 Rest and Food day in Putre, contemplating what am I doing here.

route from Cusco to Puno

Route through back roads from Cusco to Puno, over 2 x 5000m passes. Some highway, some dirt.

Download file: gps-cusco.gpx