Crazy road to the Ollagüe border | Crossing the border Bolivia to Chile |
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Heading from Uyuni to San Pedro de Atacama, I crossed from Bolivia to Chile using the Ollague border crossing. The road in Bolivia from Uyuni to Ollagüe is currently being (re?)built, so the current/temporary road is a sandy, rutty nightmare. It is actually quite beautiful and a fun road to ride, but it is very slow going with all the trucks, sand pits and windy turns; it makes for a very long and challenging day (if upon reflection an incredible and unforgettable one). I've never seen landscapes like this before, it was like being is a colourful pastel painting with washed-out water colours, incredible.
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I'm definitely the most uncomfortable on deep sand. They say to go as fast as possible but damn, that is scary as heck. Great video, Ken.
I knowww, I was telling myself faster is better lol. I was just so freaked out by trucks right behind me and then coming at me head on also, while sliding around hahaha. I won’t forget that road/day anytime soon
Nice video, Ken. What a crazy, sandy road. When was that? I'm thinking of riding it with pillion, do you think its feasible? Haha. Greetings from Brazil!
Hey! Yeah, it was quite sandy and crazy in parts. It was a couple of months back I was there, I’m slow editing and posting the videos lol. I’d imagine it is very very cold right now 🥶. Most of the road was actually grand, but there were quite a few short sections of some of the deepest and most challenging sand I’ve been on. I hate sand! So I’d say it mostly depends on your confidence/ability to deal with that with a pillion; I’m sure others have done so. Also, they are constructing a nice straight road and while under construction the road in use just kind of snakes along back and forth on either side of the new road (a couple of times I used the under construction new road to avoid sand traps); I’d imagine the road is like a few others I’ve been on where it changes day to day and week to week depending on weather, truck traffic and maintenance/grading. Either way it should be an adventure!
@@kenshapperttravelstheworld8845 What a great report, thanks a lot.
Indeed, I'm not the best sand rider. In fact, I sh1t my pants when I see sand, eh. Gotta practice it, because the road seems cool! Greetings from Curitiba-Brazil!
Ken … You have any content dealing with (or documenting) encounters with the sort of on-the-road traveler shake downs Latin America has become so famous for, e.g. cartel roadblocks?
Well… I do have a ton of footage of my interacting with police. I was only shaken down once (colombia) and I was not on my motorcycle and did not have my camera rolling. Probably could have avoided if I had more time that day. Cartel roadblocks aren’t really a thing outside of Mexico, and I didn’t see any in 3 months all over the country. Only twice I felt like I was being pressured for money (colombia, peru), both times I had done something wrong but just kept friendly/polite and made sure my camera was obviously on and recording; nothing happened. And that is three out of probably hundreds of interactions I had with police. The vast majority were professional if not outright curious and friendly. I think a camera recording and a good attitude go a long way to avoiding problems imho, ymmv