{"id":2510,"date":"2016-11-25T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:01:03","slug":"trip-through-chile-and-welsh-patagonia-some-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2510","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Chile and [Welsh] Patagonia \u2013 some stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 November, 2016 : San Mart\u00edn de los Andes<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally home. Surprisingly, our eventual itinerary bears a surprising similarity to our original plan.<\/p>\n

\"final-route\"<\/p>\n

We spent 12<\/strong>\u00a0days on the road and travelled a total distance of 4,517<\/strong>\u00a0kilometres (2806.73 miles.\u00a0Our\u00a0average km per litre was 7.46<\/strong> (21.07\u00a0mpg) \u2013 but this varied enormously day on day according to road surface (Silver has a six cylinder 4.1 litre appetite) which was miraculously exactly the same on my Ruta 40 (South) trip<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n

We kept mostly to tarmac, with about 20% of gravel roads, and engaged 4WD twice only; once on an iffy, gravelly mountain road and once when Martin reversed into a ditch.<\/p>\n

We slept\u00a04<\/strong>\u00a0nights in hotels<\/strong>, 4<\/strong>\u00a0in self-catering apartments<\/strong>, 1<\/strong>\u00a0in a motel<\/strong>, 1<\/strong> in a bungalow<\/strong> and 1<\/strong> in a purple cabin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We concluded that WiFi<\/strong> in Patagonia is mostly crap and that finding a cash dispenser<\/strong> that works is like looking for gold.<\/p>\n

We bought books<\/strong> on Butch Cassidy and Birds in Chile, a Welsh teapot<\/strong> with hand-knitted tea cosy <\/strong>and a ‘torta negra galesa’ <\/strong>(the Patagonian version of a Welsh fruit cake) \u00a0in Trelew and Gaiman, straw birds<\/strong> from Chiloe, a teeshirt<\/strong> from the paleontological museum in Trelew and a bunch of other stuff<\/p>\n

We saw penguins<\/strong>, sea lions<\/strong>, seals<\/strong>, dolphins<\/strong>,\u00a0elephant seals<\/strong>, rheas<\/strong>, armadillos<\/strong>, guanacos<\/strong>,\u00a0red foxes, grey foxes,<\/strong>\u00a0hares<\/strong>, rabbits<\/strong>, a mink<\/strong>, a number of lizards<\/strong> and maybe a pudu<\/strong>.. Lots of birds too (Caroline spotted an owl<\/strong> and took her first bird photo) but this was not a birding trip. Sadly we missed the whales<\/strong> and orcas<\/strong> (and the killer bunnies<\/strong><\/a>), but it’s good to have a reason to go back (as if we needed one).<\/p>\n

We have travelled through snowcapped mountains, forests, lush green pastures and deserts, and have seen the rising and setting sun on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts<\/p>\n

Miraculously, we\u00a0seem to have kept our\u00a0total costs within budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22 November, 2016 : San Mart\u00edn de los Andes Finally home. Surprisingly, our eventual itinerary bears a surprising similarity to our original plan. We spent 12\u00a0days on the road and travelled a total distance of 4,517\u00a0kilometres (2806.73 miles.\u00a0Our\u00a0average km per … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","category-trip-welsh-patagonia-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}