...Chile 😎 🇨🇱 🤩

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When we left our campsite by the banks of the Río Atuel in the morning, we were completely alone in the canyon. The Argentinians don’t seem to be morning people, and we were fine with that; we enjoyed the solitude. We were making very slow progress because we constantly had to turn our heads to take in all the fantastic landscapes and amusing rock formations. We even had to be careful not to fall into the partially well-filled, partially almost empty riverbed. It was so beautiful that we kept reminding ourselves how glad we were that we had chosen this path, even though we didn’t know what the road conditions would be like. The Río Atuel is dammed a total of four times throughout the entire valley (a straight-line distance of 26 km, but for us, it was 46 km with an elevation gain of 980 m), and we passed three hydroelectric power plants.
Finally, in the afternoon, we conquered the last section, steep uphill, faced almost unridable surfaces for the last couple of kilometers, and reached the village of Nihuil.

since @pixelfed allowes up to 20 pictures in one post we share 16 📸 in this post.

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While resting in San Rafael, we studied
the maps for the next leg of our journey. The question was: is this white line on the map cyclable, or should we opt for the orange-colored line (ruta nacional) instead? Would we find enough food and water supplies along the way? Finally, well-rested, clean, and with food for up to three days, we cycled on. Yes, we began the adventure and said 'no, thanks' to the big road. well, the first part was still a well-paved road, but with most likely less traffic. Quite soon after we departed from San Rafael, we also left the flat area filled with many vineyards. Suddenly, mountains appeared—wow, what a view! Our eyes were delighted after so many days without seeing anything like mountains. Even more, it filled us with energy to see the vivid river with its beautiful ice-blue color and the extremely green trees lining the river...

—> stay tuned for the next post, the next part of this adventurous day 🤩

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On the way we captured this #schnapszahl 🙂🙃

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Our route led us from Romania across the border to Serbia. In the first Serbian village, we found a well where we filled our water bottles and where we made a new friend, a super cute puppy. He came to us without any shyness. However, he was scared of the locals passing by. Unfortunately, we couldn't take him with us and had to say goodbye. In the friendly-looking town of Kikinda, we happened to ride through the so-called 'most beautiful street in Serbia'. It was really beautiful with the trees and their green, merging canopies. For sleeping, we chose a sports playground, which seemed to have not been used for active recreation for a long time. After the sun had set, 4 young owls even came to practice flying and feeding very close to our tent. What an incredibly wonderful time watching these young birds.

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what a day today 🤩

It was 'schnapszahlen', lucky- and celebration-number-day 🥳

It started with odo 199991 🤩 shortly followed by odo 19999 🙃, only one km later the odometer showed us the crazy number 20000 🥳 while the sun and heat waned to melt us... today it endet with the Schnapszahl 20002 😎

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Plovdiv 🤩

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Near Perushtitsa and ~15 km southwest of Plovdiv we pedaled across the attraction 'The Red Church' (Bulgarian: Червена църква, Chervena tsarkva.
In the Internet we found out:
The Red Church is a large partially preserved late Roman (early Byzantine) Christian basilica, dating to the late 5th–early 6th century. It is a rare example of solid brick construction in a church from Late Antiquity in Bulgaria, and it was the red colour of the bricks that gave the church its name. A number of researchers have suggested that its original name of a church was "Virgin Mary", due to the widespread cult of God's mother during the early Byzantine period...

The golden rays of the evening sun bathed the brickstone walls in a warm light and made the sight even more admirable 😍

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Beside mountains, rocks and lush green woods we came also across lakes and rivers 💙

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Our route led us all the way uphill... we pedaled until we discovered Gradishte by coincidence.

On 'My Guide Bulgaria' is written:
'Gradishte is a historic landscape park in the
Rhodope Mountains where visitors can enjoy
spectacular views, pleasant trails, and see the
remains of an ancient Thracian rock sanctuary
According to some experts, Gradishte is the
largest temple of its kind in Bulgaria and very
possibly in Europe as well. The big rocks and
stones resemble various shapes such as
tortoise, whale, and one of them, 'the Head' at
the edge of the canyon, has now become the
symbol of the place.'

We enjoyed to stroll around these gigantig rocks.

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