First trip to South America, first thoughts on route.
Well my long suffering 1100GS isn't even back from its last trip (soon to be shipped back to the UK from New Zealand) and I'm sizing up another trip. I'm not a complete noob, I've shipped the bike to Southern Africa (11 weeks, 13500km) and NZ (9 weeks, 9500km), but I know very little about South America. I have to travel in the northern hemisphere winter so would aim to arrive early November through to mid December. This will also work for friends in NZ who have expressed an interest in joining us.
I'm thinking of taking six weeks in total, flying in to Santiago, Chile and going as far north as Lake Titicaca and down Ruta 40 to the Chilean Lakes and back up to Santiago roughly as per this map, circa 8000km:
This would be the absolute max, and would likely be trimmed.
I realise that a more sensible option would be to stay south and explore Patagonia, but I really want to see the Atacama, Bolivian Altiplano and Salar de Uyini pans.
How does this look as a starting point?
Deserts, I like deserts...
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