Morgens Aufwachen im... Parque Chabungo. Zwanzig Kilometer außerhalb von Punta Arenas.
Mit herrlichem Blick auf die Magalanstraße.

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Yeah, we have been in San Martin de los Andes for two days now 🤩 Fortunately, we didn't have to set up our tent in a roadside ditch among thorny plants. After about an hour of trying to hitch a ride (only about 5 cars passed by), a really nice farmer actually stopped and took us to San Martin de los Andes.
It feels like we're in another world here. The lively tourist town by the lake, surrounded by green mountains, strongly reminds us of Grindelwald, Zermatt, or other tourist destinations in the Swiss Alps.
We've enjoyed strolling through the shopping streets, sitting in a café, and even eating gluten-free pastries. We took advantage of a rainy day to weld—very professionally, with protective gear and specialized equipment 😅—a broken bottle holder (it broke on the rough gravel track) and to wash our tent. Now that we are finally out of the desert, the pampas, and the dusty areas, it was totally worth it to free the tent from all that dust and sand.

📸 nr.10 (last picture): Next to the Francisco Perito Moreno monument was our campspot for our first night in San Martin de los Andes. We reached the city with the kind farmer around 9:30 pm and had no daylight left to find a better spot. But at least the rocks provided some shelter from the wind, and luckily, there were barely any cars driving around at night.

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📸 1: After 9 nights, we had to leave the apartment as new guests were scheduled to arrive. Fortunately, our host was traveling to the larger nearby town of Chos Malal and took us along in his pickup truck. We arrived in Chos Malal just in time, 5 minutes before the bus to Zapala departed. The tickets were quickly purchased, and the bicycles were easily stored in the trunk, and off we went on our journey further south. By noon that day, we reached the siesta-taking town of Zapala.

📸 2: On the outskirts of Zapala, in an artificially created little forest, was the Municipal Campground where you can camp for free.

📸 3: During that weekend, visitors from the region came throughout the day and into late night to make theire famous asados (grill) and listen to loud music (everyone his own music...) a bit overwhelming...

📸 4: The second night on the campground we moved our tent further between the trees to get a little more peace and quietness at night.

📸 5: Since there was unfortunately no bus that could take us further south, we had to continue on our own power. 200 kilometers with practically no opportunity to resupply food and water lay ahead of us. So we bought enough food for a full four days and cycled out of the city at 6 PM.

📸 6 - 8: Fiona was still a bit weak, but we managed to cover the planned 25 kilometers in the golden evening sun ...

📸 9: ...to a spot marked as a suitable campsite on iOverlander.

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In the very first village, Dlhá Ves — after we crossed the border to Slovakia 🇸🇰— we came across these crazy, fantastic metal sculptures. One shows the Greek god Atlas, who has to carry the heavy (heavy with pollution) globe 🌏 The other sculpture must be Aquarius 🔱, who is certainly very angry about humanity as well. Impressive, this metal artwork—so powerful!

Our first sleeping spot in Slovakia was incredibly nice. We pitched our tent in a huge meadow behind a little hill. It was so calm and peaceful 💚

The route led us through the village called Štítnik, where we stumbled upon the water castle 'Vodný hrad.' There we discovered the funny wooden sculptures of the king 👑, the fool 🃏, and the dragon 🦖

From Dobšiná, we had to cycle uphill. At the top, we found our second super nice campsite 🏕️ Again, it was in a meadow, with some trees behind us and a view down to Dedinky and the little lake Palcmanská Maša.


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In Hungary, we often found such blue waterwells at the roadside in the villages, perfect for filling our water bottles again and again in this hot weather, and great for cooling our heads and washing our hair. 💦😅
Also great was that the planned route often led us on separate bike paths. Really relaxing!
A thunderstorm was forecasted for the evening, so it was clear to us that we preferred a sleeping place with a roof. However, the search was quite difficult. The area was very populated, with one village lining up after another; there was not one picnic spot in sight, and no shelters were marked on the map. When we stumbled upon an unused event space with a large covered stage just outside of a village, we decided to stay there, we couldn't have wished for a better shelter, even though everyone could see us.
the night was quite relaxed 😴 and we stayed dry.
Due to another rainy hour in the morning, we had not a hurry to leave. Slowly we packed our things up in the dry, had breakfast, and drank coffee. Despite our late start that day, we made good progress. We passed by a really cool 3D mural. Of course, the size in the photo doesn’t convey how it was in real life.
In the evening, we pedaled through the city of Eger and then started looking for a suitable campsite again. The area was very touristy, so we wanted to set up our tent in a somewhat more hidden spot. After searching for quite a while along our route we reached already the Bükk Mountains, a densely forested, hilly national park. It was all uphill from there, and on both sides of the road, it was steep and completely overgrown.
Finally, after 65 km and a little over 1000 meters of elevation gain, we were able to set up our tent in a hiker's parking lot 🏕️


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