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Google maps is rubbish though? On my map I see a road that goes through points in the map - Puripica, Quetena, and then north to a crossroads labeled Soniquera, and then north again to San Cristobal where a fuel pump is labeled! The route highlighted on google is the most westerly road, which on my map is nothing more than a track.
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Google Maps can be rubbish. I don't know the western road that you mention. I have never driven that entire route. Do what i suggest, use Google EARTH to view the so called towns and roads. You can see from the satilite photo if the town is large enough to potencially have fuel or you may even see the pumps themselves. Around Uyuni Google Maps is pretty bad. The best maps for this area are Rutabo for Garmin - which is a locally produced map by Arturo Welzel. His maps do have all the fuel stations on them.
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Google Maps can be rubbish. I don't know the western road that you mention. I have never driven that entire route. Do what i suggest, use Google EARTH to view the so called towns and roads. You can see from the satilite photo if the town is large enough to potencially have fuel or you may even see the pumps themselves. Around Uyuni Google Maps is pretty bad. The best maps for this area are Rutabo for Garmin - which is a locally produced map by Arturo Welzel. His maps do have all the fuel stations on them.
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Hi matey,
Thanks for getting back to me - and sorry for hijacking thread somewhat - but given you`ve done this, can you just confirm the customs/aduana proceedure? Am I right in thinking you check out of Chile in San Pedro... but then for Bolivia? My map has no features or nothing available on Google maps either... any ideas?
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, can you just confirm the customs/aduana proceedure? Am I right in thinking you check out of Chile in San Pedro... but then for Bolivia? My map has no features or nothing available on Google maps either... any ideas?
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Coming from San Pedro, you would do exit migraciones/aduanas in San Pedro, then drive the short drive to the turn off for Bolivia. At the border, there is Bolivian migraciones/aduanas -22.881013, -67.798788 . There is also a Park office for which you must pay the entrance fee to the park in Bols or Chile Pesos. No US$ accepted.
You can use GOOGLE EARTH to find the location. That is how i got the coordinates listed above. Very simple. Use Google Maps to find the general location, then switch to Earth View and zoom in looking for roads, tracks, structures.
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Coming from San Pedro, you would do exit migraciones/aduanas in San Pedro, then drive the short drive to the turn off for Bolivia. At the border, there is Bolivian migraciones/aduanas -22.881013, -67.798788 . There is also a Park office for which you must pay the entrance fee to the park in Bols or Chile Pesos. No US$ accepted.
You can use GOOGLE EARTH to find the location. That is how i got the coordinates listed above. Very simple. Use Google Maps to find the general location, then switch to Earth View and zoom in looking for roads, tracks, structures.
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Is this info regarding the aduana in the Bolivian side up-to-date? Back in 2012 when I entered Bolivia at that location there was only immigration. For aduana I had to ride to Apacheta.
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Is this info regarding the aduana in the Bolivian side up-to-date? Back in 2012 when I entered Bolivia at that location there was only immigration. For aduana I had to ride to Apacheta.
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Info current as of 2014. It has been the crossing for a very long time.
By the way, the Landcruiser tours have 1000km range because they make a complete round trip from Uyuni to Chile border and back to Uyuni without stopping for fuel. So a 500km range would be more than sufficient for a one way drive Uyuni to San Pedro. I drove from San Pedro to La Paz without fueling as i had 1200km range
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without fueling as i had 1200km range
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I can confirm there is a petrol station in Uyuni and if you walk there with your jerry cans they dont even charge the 3x tourist price because jerry cans dont have forreign number plates http://motorradtouren-suedamerika.de..._bolivien-peru
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We are carrying 3 jerry cans now, so we have 12 gallons of extra gas just in case. Thanks for the advice!!!!
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