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 …
South America
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 …
Bye Ecuador, hello Peru!
It feels like a lot of ground has been covered since our last update from Cuenca – we now find ourselves in Jaen, our first …
The highs and lows of Chimborazo
This edition of the blog is brought to you from Cuenca, a beautifully kept colonial town in the south of Ecuador, where the architecture makes …