Cycling the Carretera Austral, Chile - Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins
This was our biggest challenge to date on our year of bike tour. Over 1000km of rough roads, crazy mountains and mad weather. The scenery more than makes up for it. Mountains more beautiful than you've ever seen, lakes the most incredible shade of blue, glacier-fed streams to drink from, and some of the most peaceful wild camping spots that you can imagine. Chile may well be the most beautiful country I've visited so far. Maybe...
We started this section of our trip in Puerto Montt, and finished it in Villa O'Higgins, before crossing the border into Argentina. Two words you learn quickly on the Carretera Austral are 'ripio' and 'tabeno'. Ripio is what they call the unpaved sections of the roads. This can cover all manner of surfaces, from hard packed earth, to loose gravel, to rocky boulders, to washboard. Tabenos are the massive biting horseflies that plague this region in their summer months. They are big, noisy and bitey.
I can't stress enough how rewarding this route was. It built in me a whole new kind of fitness and endurance, and provided me with some of the best wild camping experiences of my life.
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This is the movie whilst cycling from the border with Argentina at the top of the Andes across to Osorno and up to Santiago,February and early March 2013. A ride of 1200kms.
Lots of Lush vegetation but basically only one road and that is a busy motorway. All roads are branches off that one Ruta 5.
Chile is chilly and hilly is what we were saying to ourselves when we first arrived in the south. Although the very south is beautiful and lush it is also much cooler of course. This is not the kind of temperature we like, or are used to, so we were glad we took the route we did. In fact to get to the bottom there are no roads so a ferry for four nights and three days from Puerto Montt to Puerto Arena is $450 USD each plus $80USD for a bicycle one way. Not a fee we like.
The Chilean people have been very nice, generous and friendly and as such we have made many friends. It was fantastic to have arranged to stay with Michael and Natalia for five days in Osorno because we had so much rain for the few days prior and they made us feel at home. They showed us around the markets where we have never seen such beautiful large and juicy vegetables and fruit in all our travels and it was so inexpensive, yes, as little as India.
They took us by local bus 80kms to Natalia's parents' beach house on the coast funny enough, west of Osorno, for a lovely weekend. (See photos below)
After five days in comfort we headed off again. It was a miserable day weather wise and never much fun winding our way out of a fairly large town and onto a hilly Highway which would be our only choice of a road until we arrive in Santiago 950kms north of Osorno. (It was 337kms from Bariloche in Argentina to Osorno, over the Andes)
Chile is actually shaped like a chilli but it is not the reason for its name. There are many theories as to how it got its name but one is, it means The end of the earth The main highway is two lanes each way and has a good size shoulder although littered with debris of all sorts especially blown truck tyres with thin steel threads making it easy to get a puncture of which we had a few. So the main highway Ruta 5 is the trunk of the tree which has many branches both sides that more often than not turn to gravel. Ruta 5 follows the lowlands where it can more often than not be reasonably flat but as the country as a whole is extremely hilly and of course with the Andes mountains on the eastern side, then when there were hills they were real beauties. There is no shortage of rivers as the water runs down from the Andes so hence the fertile land suitable for just about everything from sheep and dairy farming to strawberries and so on, in the south, to vineyards and tropical fruits in the north.
Cycling the Carretera Austral, Patagonia
In November 2017 I cycled south from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins along the Carretera Austral in Chile, before crossing the border into Argentina and spending a month near El Chalten.
I didn't intend to make a video of the trip so this is an amalgamation of clips from my phone. As I hope you will see Patagonia is an incredible place with utterly stunning scenery and kind hearted people that bailed me out on numerous ocassions!
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Cycling the Carretera Austral, Chile
Ed and Gaye riding the Carretera Austral on their journey from Alaska to Ushuaia. 2016-2018
CARRETERA AUSTRAL DE BICICLETA: O CHILE COMO VOCÊ NUNCA VIU
Em 2013, Renata Falzoni e Paulo de Tarso pedalaram pela estrada mais exuberante do Chile, a Carretera Austral. No primeiro episódio dessa aventura, uma parada pela capital Santiago e o começo de um longo pedal com muito Mountain Bike e belas paisagens.
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Klaus Kuras from rad-fernweh.de in Chile
Cycling the Carretera Austral
The Carretera Austral runs from Puerto Montt to the South of Chile, where cars have to return and cyclists continue their trip on narrow trails to Argentina. Without doubt one of the most scenic cycling routes in the world. Pick the right season and amazing views are guaranteed.
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Cycling the Carretera Austral | Patagonia 2017
This is a video I put together from a bicycle tour in Chile and Argentina in 2017. We started in Puerto Montt and cycled to El Chalten, taking a few ferries on the way. After finishing we hiked the Huemul Circuit in El Chalten, the Sierra Valdivieso Circuit near Ushuaia, and the Circuito Del Dientes on Isla Navarina.
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Epic Rides in Chile | Carretera Austral
201702 - Carretera Austral is the legendary name given to the official Ruta (Route) 7 in Chile. The road runs from Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins. It exists entirely in the Patagonia section of Chile. More details here.
Carretera Austral. Patagonia.
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Operação Carretera Austral
Documentário sobre a Operação Carretera Austral, cicloviagem de 1.815 km que realizei, em janeiro de 2019, de Bariloche, na Argentina, até Puerto Montt, no Chile, e, de lá, via RN 07 - a Carretera Austral, até O'Higgins, atravessando de barco o lago de mesmo nome e pedalando de volta até a argentina El Calafete, de onde retornei ao Brasil. A edição é de Gelson Pereira e a trilha sonora, de Henrique Sulzabacher. O apoio é da Gelson Pereira Comunicação e da Editora Catarse.
Cruzar: Crossing Northern Patagonia by Bike
“Cruzar” documents a collaborative trip with adventure travel companies OneSeed Expeditions and Revolución Rides as they explore the Lake District, Carretera Austral, and Chiloé Island of northern Patagonia. The film provides a glimpse into the advance work that goes into expedition planning.
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Assistant Videographer: Luke Hall
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Remote cycling and bikepacking adventures from copiapo (Chile) towards the Paso Pircas Negras and Argentina. I met with Iohan Goeorguiev at Laguna Brava and we cycled the Reserva San Guillermo in Argentina to finish in the city of Rodeo. After that I cycle towards the Santiago.
To cross the Reserva San Guillermo you should have an autorisation!
Chile en bicicleta , Carretera Austral, Patagonia , torres del paine con Palabradeaventurero
Una pequeña muestra del viaje que encamine en solitario con la bici hacia el Sur, tenia ganas de escuchar el sonido de un glaciar, el murmullo de un volcan, el azote gèlido del viento patagonico,la mirada del pacifico y me puse rumbo con un simple mapa... me encontre con algo mejor, gente del mismo palo , vieajeros con las misma inquietudes y amigos para toda la vida, espero poder reflejar poco a poco y hacer participe a todos con los videos esta forma de viajar tan libre y sana.
Patagonia - Biking the Carretera Austral
On Jan. 1, 2015 I flew to Chile to spend 3 moths backpacking and biking through Patagonia in Southern Chile and Argentina with my friend Melita. We saw many beautiful places and completed a 1000 mile bicycle tour. This is our story.
2018 Patagonia Chile: Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, Puerto Varas, Petrohue,Carretera Austral, Part 1
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We rented a car from Santiago de Chile and drove all the way down to Ushuaia and back, more than 8.000 km.
Carretera Austral, Fitz Roy, Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, Puerto Varas
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Patagonia, Chile. Carretera Austral. Cycling South America Fatih Aksoy
This is the route 7 which crosses Patagonia region in Chile. It's an amazing road and at times it is pavement and other times it's gravel. It's very adventurous. I am loving it. Of course later I switch to Argentinian section of the Patagonia.