The Colca Canyon cuts a deep scar across the high mountain Peruvian state of Arequipa. About 3,400 metres deep, this incredible natural feature is more than twice as deep as […]

Riding Peru is like being a ten-stone masochist locked in a ring with an angry Mike Tyson. The punches are relentless and hard, but they feel so good; the winding […]

When fellow English rider Cherry left me in Lircay just a few days into my last leg of riding, neither of us expected to meet again until much further down […]

Every day riding the dirt roads of the Peruvian Andes is special. With so many passes to topple and deep valleys to launch into, it’s a landscape that is forever […]

Every season has its charms. In this part of the world there really are only two seasons, wet and dry, characterized for cyclists as mud and dust. Both seasons provide […]

Stranded in the small Andean town of Oyon too weak to ride the route out I’d hoped and with time ticking, I set about finding a fun alternative. My main […]

Central Peru is home to some of the finest cycling routes of the Americas. There’s the mighty Cordillera Blanca to explore and then the mouth-watering prospect of the Pikes recently devised […]