Ruta de la Tres Cordilleras (light): Chilca to La Paz
It was always going to be a tough act to follow on from our Ausangate experience (in the last post) – that loop was about …
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Ausangate: riding the sacred mountain
Whenever we’ve discussed hike a biking ourselves through the Huayhuash with new friends we’ve made on the road, a comparison is usually made with Ausangate; …
A rollercoaster walk: Choquequirao and Machu Picchu
Who looked at this landscape and thought, let’s build a trail through here?! We could see the trail winding its way up the other side …
Peru Great Divide: Oyon to Huancavelica
As chance would have it, the motley crew which had formed in Oyon all planned to continue their rides on the same day so, in …
Quanto para un burro, Señor? Bikepacking the Cordillera Huayhuash
Wow! How to sum up this past week of riding? 7 days which have taken us from Huaraz to Oyon, out of the Cordillera Blanca …
FOMO in the Cordillera Blanca
I left Liam alone in the hotel reception in Caraz for five minutes… and when I returned our plans had changed! With his phone in …
Buenas Piernas!
So shouted the moto driver to us as we were climbing out of Pallasca. It felt apt as we would be facing a 1000m climb …
Grass roots
After the beach, our next stop was Trujillo a little bit further down the coast. I (El) had come down with a stomach bug at …
Vamos a la playa
As the title suggests, this edition of the blog comes to you from the Peruvian coast, Puerto Chicama to be more specific, where we’ll be …
Twice over the Marañón
We pick up where we left off in our last blog: in the heat of Jaen where, most importantly, we had managed to restock with …