Hi friends,

I live here in Curico, a town 200 km south of Santiago de Chile, and I would be proud to meet RTW travelers.

Please don't hesitate to contact me at "link above" and at least you will eat a good "asado" at home with some Chilean friends.

Greetings,

Jose Pedro

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Santiago, Chile

Jose,
I will be riding from El Paso, TX to Panama in mid March. I am considering crossing over to South America and was wondering what the riding conditions would be going from Bogota to Santiago April ? I was looking for weather, avg temp.,rainfall and road conditions.

Tim Bussey

[This message has been edited by Busseynm (edited 14 January 2003).]

The weather in April in Santiago is the start of the winter, with low temperatures and cloudy days, probably some rains. About temperatures, today the web site of the Metereological is not working to see the historical data, this site is www.meteochile.cl Anyway you will find temperatures around 18°C max and 7°C min. with a lot of variability.

The road is completly paved in the Chilean territory, and I undestant is the same in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Please contact the Comunity in Colombia in this site.
Please visit Colombia, if you travel following some criteria you will never regret to visit one of the most beautiful countries in the region, and the Colombians are people really friendly, more that any other in Latin America.

The Chilean north is very dry and the distances are very long. From La Serena the landscape change turning more green and more littles towns. But for me the best of the country is the south, from Temuco to Puertto Montt, in special the lakes region.

Please stay in contact to help you more. In this site you can find my email in my profile.

Will be a plesure to help you visiting my country

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Curico, Chile

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Santiago, Chile

We stopped in to see Jose and his wonderful family and had a fantatic time with them.
If anyone is passing Curico, just south of Santiago, give him a call or email, you wont regret it.
Thanks heaps Jose,
Cheers,
Patrick and Belinda Peck

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Patrick and Belinda Peck
www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/peck

Hello Jose,
I will be passing through Curico in about 8 days... Send me an e-mail to let me know if you will be around so i CAN SAY HELLO...

Jim

Jim,

I sent you an email.

Now I'm in Zapallar, a beautiful beach 200 km north of Santiago.

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Curico, Chile

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Santiago, Chile

Jim,

Your email is not working. If you can please send me one.

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Curico, Chile

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Santiago, Chile

Jim,

I'm in Curicó now. My vacations are finished.

I tried again to send you and email, but again it failed.

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Curico, Chile

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Ya verás como quieren en Chile al amigo cuando es forastero (traditional song)

Jose Pedro Espinosa
Santiago, Chile