Los Ángeles, Chile - Journey of Ernesto "Che" Guevara: "The Motorcycle Diaries" (sitios de interés)
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The two travellers arrive in Los Ángeles, Chile on February 27, 1952. This is their last site where the have the help of their bike, "La Poderosa"
"It was our last stage as 'motorized bums'; the next stage seemed set to be more difficult, as 'bums without wheels"(63).
Guevara also recounts that the fire brigades were of much significance in the town of Los Ángeles. In his stay of three days there were "two big fires and one small one"(64). Guevara describes Los Ángeles, saying that when looking back at his trip, Los Ángeles will always be in his mind as a symbolic representation of the "furious flames of a fire"(65).