This is the story of a quick and dirty bikepacking trip into the Amazon rainforest that I made over a long weekend back in 2024, while I was living in Ecuador. In terms of chronology, this entry would come a few months before PA11: Goodbye Quito! Finding a bikeable dirt trail into the Amazon Rainforest […]
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Into Argentina! We made the crossing at Villazon/ La Quiaca. The Bolivian border officer declined to stamp my passport, telling me ‘we don’t do that at this frontier’, but agreed to put an exit stamp on a blank piece of paper. Weird. Hopefully that won’t come back to bite me one day. The Argentinian side
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Rainy season had come to Bolivia, all over the news they were talking about landslides closing roads, and floods destroying villages in the amazonian regions. We really wanted to be in Argentina for Christmas, so we decided to take the quickest and most direct route possible down the country. So let’s get on with it!
PA25: Bolivia – Cycling from La Paz to Villazón Read More »
Raquel’s replacement derailleur hangers were due to arrive in Puno, back on the Perúvian side. FedEx had done a fantastic job of getting them into the country: Our order had left the shop in Colorado, USA on Tuesday the 28th of October, and had already cleared customs in Lima on Friday the 30th. And then
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This entry begins at the moment that we left the province of Cusco for Puno, and began to make our way over to Lake Titicaca. If you want to find out what led up to this point, you should check out our previous post: PA22: Qosqo. We made a decent chunk of progress on our first
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Cusco (Qosqo in romanised Quechua) was once the capital city of the Inca empire. I expect that quite a few readers are wondering whether we visited Machu Picchu. Well, we turned the idea over quite a bit during the weeks leading up to our arrival in Cusco, and eventually decided to give it a miss
After a bit of rest we headed out to do a few bog standard tourist activities in and around Ayacucho. It turned out to be Raquel’s turn to get the dreaded stomach bug. She ended up spending a couple of days laid up on the sofa recovering. She still wasn’t feeling 100% when we decided
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We rolled out of Huánuco in a busy stream of commercial traffic. Highway 3 serves as the principal North – South route in the interior of the country, so weren’t holding out much hope for a quiet journey. The roads were absolutely heaving with heavy goods vehicles. On countless occasions we experienced reckless overtakes, with
PA20: Southbound again; Huánuco to Ayacucho Read More »
Raquel flew into Lima for a two week spell of vacationing with me in Peru, before returning to Ecuador. Messing around in the sand dudes of Huacachina, nearby Ica. Exploring the beaches around Paracas with a scooter. Playa Roja, near Paracas. After hanging out for a week, Raquel decided that flying back to Ecuador didn’t
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I stumbled onto the minibus at 5am, mumbling my sleepy greetings to the other passengers, before settling down in the back to try and get 20 winks. The road was heavily potholed, which required the driver to constantly swerve all over the shot, making sure to keep his foot to the floor, in true Peruvian