CAKSUT 'ün Gezi Notları Travel Notes by CAKSUT: PATAGONIA Tour on Motorcycle-25/26 January 2018 Days 4-5

SOUTH AMERICA / PATAGONIA TOUR with MOTORCYCLE
Riding to EL FIN DEL MUNDO between 21 January - 10 February 2018.

Day-4 (25 January 2018) : El Bolson >>>>>Futaleufu (Chile)

After a very poor breakfast at the Hotel, we departed around 08:30. After 20 minutes/65 kms following a very nice road we came to the Museum of Butch Cassidy. It is located on the right hand side of the Route 40. I took a coffee there. There are many old devices, hand tools etc. shown in the museum. There are also some information about the old time gangster Butch Cassidy.

Museum at the road side:- Butch Cassidy Museum.

On the site of the Butch Cassidy we saw the old houses and facilities of the farm.

The old houses in Butch Cassidy 's farm.

We continued our ride in the south direction. After Epuyen we left the Route 40 to get to Cholila. We came to the Los Alerces National Park. The view is fantastic. There are beautiful lakes around us.

There are very old and big trees in the Los Alerces National Park.

We stopped at the side of a big lake (most probably lake Futalaufquen) and we took a cool bath. It was around 28 deg C and the water helped us to refresh ourselves. After 1 hour we departed again to Trevelin.

Cool bath in the lake Futalaufquen:-Me and Daniel.

We arrived at Trevelin. After having a lunch break in Trevelin we started to ride. I took a hamburger and Sadik took a green salad. It was around 14:00 o'clock.The road in the National Park was not paved. It is as well gravel road after Trevelin. We took the road through Los Cipreses. The whole road upto the Chilean border is unpaved. Very close to the border of Argentina there is a bridge where we stopped and waited for the others in the group.

Waiting on the bridge just before the Chilean Border.

As soon as the whole group came together we moved to the border authorities. After leaving the Argentinian border site we reached to The Chilean site. We waited there more then one hour and then we departed to the town Futaleufu.

It is only a few kilometers from the border. The road conditions are very well. We came to the fuel station and we filled up our tanks for the next day. Then we moved to the guesthouse where we stayed for the night. It is a nice guest house called La Gringa Carioca. The lady owner is Adriana Radwanski from Brasil and operating this guesthouse perfectly. She speaks very good English. We sat there after settling into oıur rooms.
The weather is wonderful in the garden.

Resting in the garden of the guesthouse La Gringa Carioca

Adriana, the owner of the guesthouse La Gringa Carioca

We were five people staying in the guesthouse La Gringa Carioca.

Our group came together for the dinner at the Hotel El Baranco.We sat around the table at 20:30 and we enjoyed the atmosphere at the dinner. We shared Ceviche, Green Salad and Loma with Sadik. We enjoyed also the wine which Sadik has ordered.

In front of the Hotel El Baranco.

It was very surprising for us to see a Turkish young guy riding on his bike. We left immediately the table and came out to the street and talked with this Turkish guy whose name is Ersin. He was travelling on his bike for a long time in South America. After the dinner in the Hotel we walked back to our guesthouse for sleep.

Day-5 (26 January 2018) : Futaleufu (Chile) >>>Puyuhuapi (210 km)

After having a good breakfast in our guesthouse La Gringa Carioca we prepared our staff and moved to the main Hotel where we had got dinner last night. All our group members came together there in front of the hotel. We departed after the briefing around 09:30. We took the road 235 in the south direction. The gravel pass road of Futaleufu brought us into a different world. Rock walls, waterfalls, rain forest type vegetation. There was also a few rain.

We continued to ride in the Carretera Austral, the famous north-south connection of Southern Chile. The vegetation is looking fantastic. At 13:30 we stopped in a restaurant just before the town La Junta.

After the lunch break we continued to ride. As we came to the little town Puyuhuapi we first filled up our tanks and then moved to our Hotel "Hosteleria Alemana" which was founded by a German guy a couple of decades ago who wanted to start a new life here.
The hotel is located very close to the coast of the fjord. It is a two storey hotel within a big garden. We have been given a big room with four beds. We stayed in the same room with Sadik as we did all through our Patagonian trip.

At 19:30 we came out and walked to the restaurant in the town. It is only a few hundred meters from the Hotel. I ate fish and green salad and we drank wine with Sadik. After having a nice walk at the coast of the town Puyuhuapi we came to our Hotel. I bought a few sachets of dried fruit at the market which is very close to our Hotel. Nuts are always good as pre-lunch snack.