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Cabo Corrientes

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    • Day 64

      🚲/🌴 - Jardins botaniques

      December 20, 2021 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

      DISTANCE: 62,5 km
      GAIN D'ALTITUDE: 674 m
      DURÉE: 8h 33min

      Un enfer de sortir et rentrer de cette ville, du pavé, des impasses, Google Maps pas du tout à jour. Un enfer.
      Puis petit à petit le trafic est remplacé par de la montée. Vélo pratiquement à vide ça aide.

      À 25km au nord (dans la montagne, 900m de dénivelé), le jardin botanique de cette ville surgit de nul part. Un havre de paix loin des immeubles.
      De la jungle, des orchidées, des cactus et des colibris. Joli cocktail condensé de la végétation mexicaine.

      Ça aurait été mieux si une insolation ou indigestion ne m'avait pas rattrapée.
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    • Day 164

      Pastries for Climbing

      January 13, 2016 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

      Jorge recommended that we stop at a particular panaderia on the long climb to El Tuito. In the tiny village of Columpia this family produces delicious pastries from their wood fired oven and sells them for a whopping 5 pesos a piece (less than 50 cents CAD). Needless to say, we bought a bunch, and enjoyed watching the family in action rolling and baking the pastries and even pressing sugar cane into juice. Fueled by our bread break we rode over a 730 m summit to El Tuito and found our way onto the hilly road towards Mayto Beach. Karl got a kick out of riding by two bulls as they butted heads through a two strand barbed wire fence.Read more

    • Day 164

      Las Juntas y Los Veranos

      January 13, 2016 in Mexico ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

      We stopped in La Juntas y Los Veranos to find a place to camp on our first night out of Puerto Vallarta. Lucky for us, the person we asked for information or a place to camp was Jorge. In excellent English he excitedly explained that we could camp close to the river in a few spots and even have a swim, then invited us to come to El Tuito for the Fiesta of the Lady of Guadaloupe with his family when he learned that we were interested in doing that. As a result, we slept in our tent on his back deck, and got to meet his wife Rosario and boy Raphael, along with more of the family. Jorge and the family take care of a refuge for birds, in particular, a local variety of macaw. He explained all about their work to protect the macaws from poachers, and to increase the population by building giant nests that they hang in pine trees. Jorge was a kind of cultural translator for us: in the short time we spent with him he explained many things about the local food and culture that we had been wondering about. One of these things was the name of their town. Las Juntas means two female things that are together, in this case refering to two giant boulders that we had noticed in the river going through town, and Los Veranos can mean summers, but in this case means productive land along a river's edge. After sharing breakfast and tea with the family we continued pedalling up and up to El Tuito.Read more

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