Day 505: 2011年12月12日

Pucon to Neltume (Pension)
46,162km to 46,321km = 159km

さて、昨日は3時半まで歓談してたので起きたのは10時過ぎ。しかし外を見ると快晴。ポールも丁度目を覚ましたので「行くか。」ということになり、急いで出発の用意を。

11時には準備完了。ロザーナに別れを告げて出発です。先ずは進路を西へヴィヤリカ(Villarrica)を目指します。メインの国境はプーコンの東側ですが、今日はダートを走り、プエルト・フイ（Puerto Fuy）からピリウエイコ湖（Lago Pirihueico）を船で越えてマイナー国境を越えるつもりです。

ヴィヤアリカからリンカ・レイ（Linca Ray)へ。リンカ・レイからワインディングを更に走り、コナリペ（Conaripe)という小さな街で昼飯。ここからダートに入ります。


久しぶりのダートですね。サンティアゴからしばらく高速だったので、久しぶりのダートは楽しいですね。しかも湖の向こう側に雪山が。美しい。ヒツジも喜んでおります。

ダートをしばらく走った後また舗装路に出ます。橋の上から雪山が見えます。川の水も青く澄んでいて、最高。このルートを取って良かったです。

湖畔の舗装路を走ります。ワインディングが気持ちいい。しかも雪山と湖がズルイ位にいいですね。

しばらく走るとまたダートに入ります。ネルトゥメ（Neltume）を過ぎて、プエルト・フイのフェリー船着場へ。フェリーは停泊していましたが、今日はもう出航しないと。どうも毎日1時に出航みたいです。しかし、フェリーは故障中とか。なので小船で湖を渡ることになります。しかし小船は一度に車2台しか運べません、なのでワシ等は明日11時に船着場に到着し、場所を確保しようということになりました。

時間は3時半。とりあえずネルトゥメまで戻り、宿を探すことに。途中「Cerveseria（ビア・ガーデン）」とあったので、ポールが「ビール飲みたい」というので一休み。こんなド田舎なのに小洒落た店です。

宿を探しますが、問題はワシ等チリ・ペソをあまり持ってません。本当は今日アルゼンチン側に渡るつもりだったので、足りるはずだったんですが…。しかもネルトゥメの街にはATMが無い!!

宿を何軒か回り、ようやく1人7,000ペソの宿を見つけました。しかも米ドルを換金してくれると。1米ドル500ペソなので悪くないですね。レストランも経営してるので、夕飯もここで食べました。

夜はポールと歓談。彼は葉巻（キューバ産のコイーバ）とウィスキーをこよなく愛する男なので、今日も葉巻にウィスキーです。カッコいいですね。

さて、明日は11時までに船着場なので、朝はゆっくりです。


Day 505: 12 DEC 2011

Pucon to Neltume (Pension)
46,162km to 46,321km = 159km

As we talked until 3am last night, when I woke up it was already after 10am. I looked aoutside through the window and it was fine. Paul woke up as well, and we decided to get going.

We got ready by 11am and said good-bye to Rosana, and we took off. We head to the west to Villarrica first. Actually the main border crossing is located the east of Pucon, but we planned to ride some dirt roads and rake a ferry crossing Lago (Lake) Pirihueico from Puerto Fuy.

From Villarrica, we turned to south to Linca Ray. From Linca Ray, we rode on the twisty road and got to a smal town called Conaripe. We had lunch there.

From Conaripe, we hit the dirt road. As the route 5 from Santiago to Temco was so boring, I enjoyed riding on the dirt road. The views were excellent. Especially the view of a snow capped mountain over a lake was so beautiful. Mr. Sheep was also having fun riding through.

Riding on the dirt road for a while, then we hit the bituman again. The view of a mountain from a bridge was so good. The river was so clean too.　We were glad that we took this route instead of the major crossing.

We rode through the twisty ro0ad and enjoyed it. On the way there were beautiful lakes and mountians everywhere.

The we hit a dirt road again. We rode through to Neltume. We asked the local where the ferry jetty was. The we rode another 5km to the jetty. We saw a ferry harboured at the jetty. We parked our bikes in front of the jetty and asked when the ferry was leaving. But what we found out was the ferry has been under repairing for 2 months and everyday at 1pm, a smaller ferry is leaving here. But t can carry only 2 cars... So we decided to come back here around 11am to make sure we get our spots.

On the way back to Neltume, we stopped at a "Cerveseria (Beer pub)" as Paul was dying for a beer. Well, it was a hot day. The pub was quite fancy even though it was located at the middle of nowhere.

We went back to Neltume and looked for a hostel. Aproblem we had was we did not have much Chilean pesos with us. But finally we managed to find a pension accepts US$ and cost 7,000CLPs each for a twin room. The pension served meals as well, so we had dinner here too.

Paul loves smoking cigars (especially Cuban Cohiba) and having whisky.Tonight he went buy a bottle of Jack Daniel and started to smoke cigar. That's really cool.

Tomorrow we need to get to the jetty by 11am so we can spend time in the morning.

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