Скачать или смотреть EP24 Socos to Valparaiso: wind turbines, bloody accident, Conquistador gold, Darwin's "Wine Palm"

Leaving the Hotel Socos I bump into a Brazilian couple also heading south, two-up on a BMW. En route to my destination Valparaiso, some 340kms south, I see wild donkeys, wind turbines, weird fog phenomena, a roadside bike accident, and pass through Quillota and Quilpue, areas that are home to huge deposits of gold and flint, as well as the site of pre-Inca and Colonial conflicts over the fabulous Marga Marga alluvial goldfields, one of the richest in the world. Passing Cerro La Campana, or Bell Mountain, climbed by Charles Darwin in 1834, I discuss its curious high-altitude Wine Palm, before riding along a beautiful coastal road into Valparaiso's Villa Kunterbunt biker hostel, welcomed by two friendly dogs, a Golden Retriever and Afghan. Unfortunately this episode contains no road footage as my action camera malfunctioned, but I tried to make it as interesting as possible nevertheless by adding a lot of local history.
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Music Credits:
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