After the accident David needed a couple of days to recover so we stayed at a hostel just out of town in a pine forrest called Las Salamadas. David managed to get an X-Ray done in Coyhaique on his foot that luckly showed no bone fractures just bruising. The bike also had its recovery time we managed to do the final repaires on David´s bike to stitch together the front fender and get some welding done on the pannier frames. The bike finally looked pretty again.
Matteo and Kate went on a day long horse trek into the mountains to look at the views over the valley. The horse riding place had a fantastic show jumping ring, and at the end of the day Kate managed to do a quick round on the poor tired western horse in all its western sadderly... a tough ask!
With David feeling better it was time to leave as the hostel was costing us more the we should be spending. So we hit the road again… this time slower than before the accident and headed for the secod largest lake in South America that sits between Chile and Argentina, Lago General Carrera. We had the best ride any of us had ever experienced as we rode around this amazing lake from a little town called Tranquillo to Chile Chico. We liked it so much that when David realised he had lost his wallet none of us complained as we rode 100km back to Tranquillo to see if the wallet we left at the fuel station. We crossed into Argentina at Los Antiguos and camped at Perito Moreno were we meet a South African/Swiss couple on an Africa Twin motorbike.
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