Our Self Guided Best of Northern Patagonia Adventure Motorcycle Tour | What's it really like?

Hey riders, Eric here from RideAdventures with another video reminding you that we make it easy for people to travel the world by motorcycle and by 4x4. The trip package I wanted to talk about right now is called our Self-Guided Best of Northern Patagonia Route. It's one we've been offering for about five or six years now and it really came together on the idea that people want to see some highlights in Patagonia and get an experience the beautiful incredible terrain and scenery that is but not everybody has the 16, 17, 18 days available like some of the other longer trips that start in the north and go all the way to the south. So as you'll see this one, it starts in the Lakes District and basically loops through from Northern Patagonia and Chile into Argentina and then back to the same starting city of Pucon in Northern Patagonia through again what is still an absolute highlight reel on the first day of riding you're going across along the Yaima Volcano riding on the actual volcanic pumice and ash that's left over there from recent eruptions down through again Lakes District, Lago Alamine and Bariloche and a constant array of what is natural beauty and wonder rivers and volcanoes and mountains and everything around you all the time back through the Chilean side and to the starting city of Pucon or the finishing city also of Pucon for which you would use Temuco Airport. The trip format I'm talking about again is self-guided this is something we've offered for a long time and a lot of our customers enjoy the freedom of being able to go on their own self-guided and not having to be part of a guided group tour event or so maybe you want to just bring a friend or two down you're welcome to do this the point is that with this trip format the motorcycle rental of your choice is already waiting for you the hotel package is all laid out and ready for you just to basically follow a guidebook and GPS that we give you each day it shows you the route shows you where to get your food and fuel and things like that all the way to a pre-reserved top end hotel that is going to be waiting for you each day it takes a lot of the the front end work and research and wondering and guessing out of the picture for you basically you can trust that we've already got plenty of people that have enjoyed this route and and it's a package that just kind of speaks for itself and you'll see why when you get when you get to do it so but this trip you can do October through April as I think I started to mention already it's definitely a dual sport terrain trip we still have about 30 of the kilometers will be off pavement the rest on pavement and you've got everything from beautiful paved twisties and switchbacks through the mountains through gravel and dirt and light sand situations constant change back and forth between different surfaces each day of the trip and that's part of the excitement the fun and the adventure and it's getting harder to do much more than this in terms of actual dirt riding in Patagonia because so much pavement has been installed in the past 8 to 10 years but still the variety factor is still balanced such that you really enjoy being able to ride the smooth pavement and then also appreciate the dirt in the gravel as well it's total variety but to that point what kind of rider can handle this this is not a trip for beginners we have a grading system that you can check with on our website and see if this is for you by that description but basically it indicates that there's not just pavement riding and this is definitely something you need to have a background in dual sport riding on these big bikes before starting something like this going to ask that you contact us if you're interested we will always be discussing with you your riding background and make sure you tell us exactly what your background is like we have notes and different things like that that we can share with you to help you decide for sure if this is really something you want to do again the trip itself the package the route that you're going on the highlights and experiences you'll get to see the people you'll get to meet along the way the other riders from all around the world that possibly might be in the area at the same time it's a highlight this thing is this package is fantastic let's basically make sure that you're meant to do this are you okay doing this solo and self-guided or again without with your friends and without one of our support systems like a guided group tour so we look forward to hearing from you