The Carretera Panamericana (English: Pan-American Highway) is for many people a dream road, and rightly so: leads to almost 50,000 kilometers, the road network of the Pan-American Highway through the different climate and vegetation zones and performs impressively in front of the beauty and diversity of the South American continent eyes.
The longest north-south route of the Pan American Highway Alaska after Tierra del Fuego stretches over 25,000 kilometers and is only in the province of Darién in Panama interrupted for about 90 kilometers. Accessible highways soft here difficult passable roads, the only Offroad bikes can be negotiated. Is also on the other parts of the Pan-American one Motorcycle Tour represents an exciting adventure, but can also travel with their own RV be a breathtaking experience for dropouts and active vacationers.
Traveling in South America
Begin and end should be a Pan-American tour Ushuaia, The southernmost city ArgentinaThat competes with the Chilean city of Port Williams for the title of southernmost city in the world. Here, at the end of the world, can the National Park of Tierra del Fuego with his Glaciers and visit sub-Antarctic forests. Even in the expeditions Antarctic Starting in Ushuaia.
From Ushuaia, the Carretera Panamericana leads to the Chilean part of Tierra del Fuego, where they must cross the Magellan Strait by ferry. No trip to the south Chiles is the Torres del Paine National Park with its fjords, bizarre rocks, glaciers and lakes. A very different picture emerges in northern Chile near the border with Bolivia and Peru. The Atacama Desert lies in the rain shadow of the Andes and is considered the driest desert in the world. Water received the few creatures domiciled here only through the fog, which is regularly over the desert.
Before you go to Peru, it’s worth a trip to Bolivia to Salar de Uyuni, The largest salt lake in the world, and the Andean city La Paz on the banks of Lake Titicaca. Also in Peru is recommended detour route from the coast, especially around the Inca city Machu Picchu to visit. The route leads past the famous Nazca Lines, Giant geoglyphs, which can be admired best from the air, and the earthquake-stricken Pisco to the Peruvian capital Lima and from there Trujillo, Where the ruins of Chan Chan are, the largest South American city from pre-Columbian period. In Ecuador can at Equator Monument between northern and southern hemispheres, and jump back and forth on the Avenue of the Volcanoes the Cotopaxi, Climb one of the highest active volcanoes in the world before the tour to the southern Panamericana in the Colombian Turbo finds its end.