Day 29 (440 km)
Met some cool people last night in the Hostal and played pool till the
wee morning. They were from Foz do Iguazo and that was actually one of our
destinations, so w exchanged addresses to meet up again by the famous
waterfalls.
Left the nexy
morning for the Argentine border by using the Jama pass, so we had to backtrack
40 km from yesterday, so went up the mountain again and soon were once again
above 4000 meter on a beautiful asfalted road and it started to get chilly and
getting frozen fingers. It was 160 km from San Pedro de Atacama to the border
and two and a half hours later reached. They processed us quickly and gave us
90 days to stay, but what was more important; they gave the bikes eight months
legal entry.
The road “RN-52” is the most
beautiful road, I ever seen in my live and was a combination of the Grand
Canyon, Zion National park and the Salt flats of Utah and must have stopped at
least 50 times to take pictures. On the end of the day, we reached Purmamarca,
what was the end of the RN-52 and stayed the night in this quiet tourist
village what had a magnificent backdrop of high rock formations in the mountain
@ 2300 meter.
For the first time this trip, at least
30 different bikers passed us on their way to Chile and in Purmamarca there was
a New Zealand group of twelve bikers, most of them our age, so we had a good
evening and talked about our experiences or inexperiences!
Scotty has now problems, starting
the bike, because the handlebar switch us malfunctioning and will see tomorrow
if we can clean it, instead of coasting down the mountain and putting it into
gear too start.!
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