What´s cheap???? So far hotel quotes for a hosteria in the middle of bum f*ck is still 120 pesos on our way to Bariloche. 10 for camping and once 30 (for 2) at Lago Faulkner. Still have to head north to Salta.

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One of my many favorites is the road heading SW out of Uyuni, Bolivia then turns west (south of Salar de Uyuni) to the Chilean border town of Ollague. The landscape is like Mars on acid!

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What about Serra do Rio do Rastro and Serra do Corvo Branco in Brazil?

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Hello Charlie,
It's in Santa Catarina, near de cities of Urubici, São Joaquim, Lauro Muller e Grão Pará.
If you have a MSN, add me, we'll keep in touch.

Regards,

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Fortaleza dos Bruxos Moto Grupo
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Jaborá, SC - Brasil
Fone: +55 (49) 9104-5536
GPS: 27° 10.445' S 51° 44.107' W

I have to agree but would extend the recommendation from Jama to Purmamarca (Ruta 52). This route, over the Passo de Jama, must certainly be one of the most scenic routes in SA.

I completed this route yesterday and took 2 days to do this ride. My average speed was dictated mostly by the amount of stops I made for photos. It is certainly doable in one day. The whole route is paved.

I stayed in a nice hotel in Susques, located next to the highway.

There are plenty of service/gas stations on this route: Tilcara (20 km north of Hwy 52), Susques, Jama, and of course, San Pedro de Atacama.

Argentinian Immigration & Customs are at Jama and the Chilean officials are in San Pedro de Atacama.

Enjoy!

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If I have to pick only one, it will be this one:
From North to South
On the Pan American (1N) turn towards the mountains at Santa
After about 60kms at Chuquicara turn left over the river. No sign, but road goes to Ancos.
After another 20 or so kms turn right and follow the road that winds up the mountain to Ancos.
About 5 or less kms turn right on a single lane track that goes towards Santarosa and Llapo. From here it is extremely spectacular with single lane trafic and steep cliffs all the way. Go all the way to Llapo to check out the friendly town, then backtrak about 5kms to a turn-off to your left (S08-32.938' and W078-02.670') and take that turn-off. The road winds incredeble and we stayed in 1st and 2nd gear most of the time. Like I said, single lane, shear verticle dropps and no railings. After some time you'll reach the toan of Yupon, they have a hostal in town where we slept.

From Yupon follow the road towards Corongo. About 5kms before town you'll get to a T junction, turn right here towards La Pampa, another nice mountain town (petrol available at the supermarket) Another 10kms or so you get another T junction, turn right again. This road has the most incredable mountain scenery with amazing colours and good surface.
After you drop down the winding mountain pass you'll come to another T junction (S08-41.978' and W077-57.622') at the 'main' road from Santa to Huallanca. Turn left towards Huallanca, another nice, cheap mountain town. After Hualanca you'll go through the amazing Canon Del Pato, a single lane (stil) dirt track that follows this very narrow canyon on an old railway line through 36 or so tunnels. It is spactacular.

The route as discribed above took us 2 full days (250kms) and was the best ride of my life. We rode slowly to admire the stunning scenery and stoped a lot to take awsome photos. The little mountain towns are very friendly and 'unspoiled' by other tourists. The road surface was challenging (we were two up on a 1150GS) and we had lots of mud, but that just added to the Adventure. There were also very little trafic, so it was safe.

You'll need a good map to locate these towns, as they are very much off the mail drag. To re-cap in brief:
Santa - Chuquicara - Ancos - Santa Rosa - Llapo - Yupon - Corongo - La Pampa - Hullanca

I've uploaded two videos of this road here YouTube - Peru 1 and YouTube - Peru 2 if you like to see it.

Johan

Here are some pictures of the road I mensioned in previous post in Peru.

Above is what most of the road looked like.

Some lovely mountain passes

The stunning Canon del Pato

I rode Pasto to Meddillin 650 miles in one day.... easily best day of my life..... curving through the colombian mountains..... it had everything imaginable that day....from cold to hot .... rain to hail...... even lightning.... all while taking curves at 80+ mph what more could you want....

From Rio and further south along the Coast of brazil.... absolutely amazing to florianopolis

not to be forgotten.... the road from copacobana bolivia to la paz...... icy cold but unreal how beautiful lake titicaca is and the ferry ride.....

Another vote for Nazca to Cuzco. Amazing rock colours blue, green, red - unreal and smooth asphalt for most of it too. Then again I am in Cuzco and heading southwards so sounds like lots more to come :-)

On road - Puquio to Cusco
Off - San Pedro de Atacama to Tatio Gaysers.

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My ride from Dead horse to Ushuaia 2009 is at
www.harpatka.com
It's in hebrew but lots of pics and some translation

Yoni

Hi folks,

I've spent a few minutes plotting these proposed "best routes" out in Google earth, as well as a couple of others.

Unless you gave detailed info your route is likely to be wrong! For example there are no less than four places called Puquio in South America....

You'll need to download and extract the zip file which contains a KML file.

To do this you can use 7Zip

7-Zip


If you want to change format between various units GPS babel is highly recommended.

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I would appreciate it if the various posters could check out the file and verify that I've got the right waypoints!

Keep the suggestions coming! Awesome stuff. I'm hoping to link all the best roads into a super route that stretches the length of the continent.

Could use some more off road suggestions.



Cheers,

Mark.

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If you like deserts, then the ride from the Peru/Ecuador border to Lima is for you. After riding through the desert for hundreds of kilometers, I finally reached the half way point to Lima. Eat your heart out...

In Ecuador, for those who think this country is just a passing place between Peru & Colombia, this is my suggestion:
The road from Macas (southern east) to Guamote (Close to Riobamba).
Amazing landscapes, climates, volcanoes and also different kind of roads: muddy, gravel, asphalt..etc.
Don't forget to get to the lakes....if lucky a strange phenomenon that happens only in this country!

RG