"Big jewel's way" from Bolivia to Chile is a series of spectacular views that makes the world end

A geyser that is boiling and boiling in the lake that stains red. Route from Uyuni in Bolivia to Atacama in Chile, from the scenic landscapes "Jewel's Road"It is popular with travelers as. While running over the spectacular mountains, I ran over a plateau exceeding 4000 m in altitude. Since the whole journey is off-road and there are few places to supply, daily journeys turn into a little adventure. There was also the appearance of flamingos.

Hello,Takuya Sudo @ circle around the world bicycle @ Charridermanis. Uyuni salt lake was covered with salt, but on the jewelry road it was covered with sand. There is no way to ride a basking on a soft, sandy beach. There was a day running 30 days after a day.

I ran the jewelry road like this.

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◆ Up to Flamingo at Edion da Lake
"Uyuni salt lake is pure white to the horizon and can travel freely in the dry season"I introduced Uyuni 's town, but the suburbs are deserted.


Unpaved roads from Uyuni to San Cristobal to Arota are maintained, so the speed of asphalt appears. However, since a strong wind blows from the west after the afternoon, it is safe to earn a distance in the morning.


I caught girls who are in school in a small village


San Cristobal stone church


Run through the pleasant scenery


Because it is maintained, it is a dirt road which can run with a gun gun.


It branches in the village of Alota, but despite deciding to go south, it has been invited by beautiful mountains to change the route. I passed through the valley between the mountains.


Beautiful mountain tops that changed the appearance to show as you go


Lake on the way


From the village of Alota to Edion da Lake, only one car passed by.


Then I arrived at Lake Edda Lake (Laguna Hedionda).


There were lots of flamingos on this lake. I had imagined the figure of putting up one leg, but there is not such a flamingo here. But the pale pinkish body is the flamingo as the image is.




Walking with Tech Teck while moving the neck overlaps with the appearance of a pigeon in the park. While staring at the lake, I was looking for bait.



Flamingos were in other lakes, but they are gathered most in Edion da Lake.



It was a pretty horde.


Flamingos I met on Edion da - YouTube


Although I do not use it, staying can be stayed because there is a hotel on the shores of Edion da.


Another lake near the Edion da Lake was also beautiful shape


◆ Until the Red Lake Coloradha Lake
It goes over the plateau exceeding 4000 m in altitude


Mountain skin where colors overlap


A strange rocky area where we had trouble


This is famous for the weathered tree like stone called Arbol de Piedra (Arbol de Piedra). Just for the AmericanArches National ParkCompared with the comparison, I feel I am exaggerated.


I pay attention to the narrowed area, but I feel a bit amazing.


A stamped sign in the street had an atmosphere


Lake Colorado (Laguna Colorada) is now visible


When entering Lake Colorada from the north, there is a management station in the national park in the first village, so we will pay an entrance fee of 150 Boliviano (about 2250 yen) there.


It was stained red like a blood pondLake Colorado. The red color seems to be red sediments and pigments of algae.


Leave behind Colorado Lake.


◆ Entry to Chile
Go past the Lake Colorada, cross one mountain. Because there was a geyser called Sol de Manigna (Sol de Man ~ ana) around 4,800 m altitude, I dropped in.


An area with a geyser has a color like a different world. The smell of sulfur that the egg on the nose has rotten looks like a hot spring in Japan.




In the hole, I'm constantly spitting out, squealing and something. It is a place that makes us feel like "the earth is alive".




Ejection port sticking to the ground like a barnacle


Salad lake side with hot spring (Laguna Salada)


Beautiful conicalMount Rican Cabour (Volcan Licancabur)When you see, the long jewelry road is also climax.


I will look back on the way I've been running


Lake Verde (Laguna Verde) is a green lake


Feel the end of the world in the Andean Plateau above the altitude of 4000 m - YouTube


A little more to the border


After completing the departure procedure at the immigration office in Bolivia ......


I entered Chile.


Border at an altitude of about 4500 m. I crossed the side of the mountain Friques next to Ricán Cabourg mountain.


When traveling about 6 kilometers from Chile 's entry, it is on the paved road of hopes.


As long as I forgot the hardness of asphalt, I was running on an unpaved road for a long time.


The border lines of Bolivia, Chile and Argentina are overlapped around here at an altitude of approximately 4,650 m.


Almost down to the town of Atacama where the altitude is about 2400 m. There is immigration at the entrance of the town, so we need Chile 's immigration procedure.


Ricante Cabourg mountain with its skirts spreading down the altitude.


About the road
After leaving the town of Uyuni it was tightly closed off to the village of Alota. From the branch of Alota to the end of Lake Colorada, there was a deep sand section and it did not proceed. Until we go to Chile's pavement from Lake Coloradha, the heavy machinery is averaging the road so it will take some speed. In the place where the sand is deep, make the front and rear gear the lightest, break the pedal by increasing the rotation speed. If that is impossible then it got off, pushed the bicycle and was walking.

81.8 km on the first day, 65.3 km on the second day, 51.1 km on the third day, 39.8 km on the fourth day, 41.2 km on the 5th day, 29.8 km on the 6th day, 45.4 km on the 7th day, on the 8th My eyes are running at 101.0 km and I ride my bicycle on average for 7 - 8 hours a day. A total of 455.4 km was run.

A rocky road with vibrations worried


I also crossed a small river


Deep sand section which was painful


As you can see, in a sandy place, I can not easily ride a bicycle.


Thanks to heavy machinery evening the road, you can run both ends here.


When the road was even, I could go up without getting down on such a slope.


If you come down with such a road, you can speed up even on a downhill slope.


A heavy machine that will straighten the road is a friend of Charida.


While watching the mountain where snow remains.


I am running like this.


It was a ride with just one person, but I was encouraged by the rut which was left behind by running someone on the bike ahead.


Here, after lane change!


In the vicinity of the border between Bolivia and Chile, I crossed the Polish cyclist to rush into the path of jewelry from now on.


For general travelers, it will be a way to participate in the tour.


All the cars on the tour are Toyota's Land Cruiser.


The blue poly tank that I thought was water was to have spare gasoline.


◆ Bed and Supply
The jewelry road that spent 7 nights and 8 days was a breakdown of 2 nights for cheap and 5 nights for camp. Because there were few hands on the Bolivian currency, nature and camping mainly.

First night of leaving Uyuni


I stayed at this place for the third night without passing one car at midnight.


The 4th night updates Peru's record, camping at 4625 meters, which is the highest altitude ever traveled.


The 5th night when Lake Colorado was visible


On the sixth night in a place that seems to overcome the wind which was before passing through Lake Colorada.


It seems like a ghost town, but the village of Alota where people live properly.


2 nights accommodation


The natural hot spring which we arrived on the 7th day did not accumulate in the tired body.


Although I planned to run a bit from the hot springs, I lost my strength and stayed at the hotel I stayed on for the seventh night.


Every day of self-catering at the camp


Soup pasta filled with canned Argentinian beef


Because we heard that jewelry roads are hard to supply food, we purchased a large amount of food mainly in canned fish in Uyuni town.


Finally in the market of San Cristobal that can be refueled collectively, I bought mainly fresh foods.


At the village called Huayllaja past the Lake of Colorado, the last food supplement.


Only 22 families live in Huayllaja, a new village not ten years ago. He seems to live while playing with partner of tour customers.


In the end, food seemed to run out, I had eaten crackers with mayonnaise.


◆ blue sky
When you enter Chile, the altitude drops and the sky blue becomes thin, so I miss Bolivia's deep blue sky. The starry sky that spreads out at night is also exceptional, and it was so sparkling that I could not hold it alone.

The blue sky on November 2


The blue sky on November 3


The blue sky on November 4


A blue sky on November 5, clouds in the sky just this day.


The blue sky of November 6


Dusk also dyed the sky red


Dusk at the salad shore where there was a hot spring


Green growing in the shadow of a barren territory that exceeds 4500 m in altitude


Afterwards this grass that we saw as Tunsun was just growing


Llama who will show her for a while after leaving Uyuni


When entering the uninhabited section, the appearance of livestock is not found. Instead, wild Vikuna is running around. Compared to Vicuña in Ecuador and Peru, the body was solid. It is wild so there is a lot of caution and it is a lonely place to get away quickly.



Although the trouble also continued and it was a jewelry road which became a difficult driving, the wilderness that comes jumping in one after another was sufficiently spectacular.

When checking at the immigration office at the time of departing Bolivia, it is surprising to say that the number of visitors per 100 visitors per day is increasing, and that number increases year by year. Sightseeing is exciting from nothing, which is a source of living for the people who live there, so amazing things are done here.

Since it will be an attractive area, why not try extending your legs when traveling in Bolivia? I think that you can feel the end of the world to the power of nature that never leaves people.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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