Day 10 (Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Concepcion to Vina Del Mar 634 kms
Out into peak hour traffic and cool weather to the first Regularity, 70kph at Rafael.
Once again it was kms of awful gravelly, rocky roads. These regularities take place on open roads so it is quite usual to face oncoming local traffic. We met 2 trucks, a bus and 2 cars so it was futile to keep up the 70kph speed and be safe. The consensus is that the regularity speed for many of the classic cars is too fast for the conditions, the dust being a major hazard. Some cars failed to take a right fork but nearly everyone except the top few cars received the maximum penalty of one minute. We had an issue with the penalty given to us which contradicted the timing card.
Onto a dual carriageway with lots of trucks and numerous toll booths (around 2000-3000 pesos each time). Passed lots of vineyards, some growing their vines vertically and the major petrol stations in this area had vertical garden walls, orange trees are also grown around here and we passed one hut on the road selling bags of oranges and straw brooms.
Concepcion to Vina Del Mar 634 kms
Out into peak hour traffic and cool weather to the first Regularity, 70kph at Rafael.
Once again it was kms of awful gravelly, rocky roads. These regularities take place on open roads so it is quite usual to face oncoming local traffic. We met 2 trucks, a bus and 2 cars so it was futile to keep up the 70kph speed and be safe. The consensus is that the regularity speed for many of the classic cars is too fast for the conditions, the dust being a major hazard. Some cars failed to take a right fork but nearly everyone except the top few cars received the maximum penalty of one minute. We had an issue with the penalty given to us which contradicted the timing card.
Onto a dual carriageway with lots of trucks and numerous toll booths (around 2000-3000 pesos each time). Passed lots of vineyards, some growing their vines vertically and the major petrol stations in this area had vertical garden walls, orange trees are also grown around here and we passed one hut on the road selling bags of oranges and straw brooms.
Lunch was at San Fernando where we had plenty of time to have lunch. Leaving here our timing Halda played up and whilst we were trying to fix it we missed a turn-off from the multi-laned freeway and consequently couldn't turn back so had to go across country to make the Passage Control at Pomaire. We circled this town several times as we didn't have accurate mileage due to Halda stopping for many kms . Others were also circling the town to locate the passage control when we spotted the mechanics' van (they also overshot the turn-off) and we made the control with minutes to spare.
Through eucalypt trees we joined the main freeway to Vina Del Mar with many narrow twisting roads with trucks. Tricky navigation to the hotel with peak hour traffic and we made it with twelve minutes to spare. What a stressful day
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Through eucalypt trees we joined the main freeway to Vina Del Mar with many narrow twisting roads with trucks. Tricky navigation to the hotel with peak hour traffic and we made it with twelve minutes to spare. What a stressful day
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