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Let's get started...Paso Jama...the unexpected...  
   

Let's get started...Paso Jama...the unexpected...

The weather was already bd for day p in the high mountains but I simply decided one day to move ahead, I was tired of such depressing winter like weather...On the other side of the mountains in Argentina is high summer right now and I wanna be part of it...I came into freezing icy snowfall...
An ice cold arrival late night

February 9th 2014
Geo: -22.9058, -68.1951That morning as I have left Iquique, I did not know how extreme that leg will turn...A nice early morning ride up onto the Ruta 5,, from Iquique on sea-level up to 2,600 metres within a very short distance...being part of the Pan-American Higway system that comes from Alaska all the way down to the deep south of Chile.First I did make the turn towards Arica, the border ... read more
South America » Chile » Antofagasta Region » San Pedro de Atacama

Chilean Flag Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more
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