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Category Archives: Peru

A Bloody Big Lake and a Sizable Bolivian City… Around Lago Titicaca to La Paz

September 8, 2014by fanwaar 2 Comments

If a ‘tourist’ is defined as ‘a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure’ then I am a without any shadow of a doubt a committed tourist. At the moment […]

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Bolivia, Cities, On The Road, Peru

Colca Compromises… Up, Over and Around from Ayo to Yanque

September 7, 2014by fanwaar Leave a comment

He who dares, wins… sometimes. My ambitious plans of riding through the deepest part of the world’s second deepest canyon, the Colca Canyon, Arequipa had disappointingly proven fruitless. Weary from […]

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On The Road, Peru

Deep Canyon Capers… Cotahuasi to the Colca

September 2, 2014by fanwaar 3 Comments

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 […]

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On The Road, Peru

Storms Over Paradise

Featuredby fanwaar 6 Comments

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 […]

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On The Road, Peru

While Out Giggling… Vilcas Huaman to Antabamba

August 26, 2014by fanwaar 3 Comments

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 […]

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On The Road, Peru

Riding the Lircay Horseshoe: Confessions of an Angry Gringo

July 20, 2014by fanwaar 5 Comments

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 […]

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On The Road, Peru

Dusting Down to Ayacucho

June 22, 2014by fanwaar 3 Comments

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 […]

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On The Road, Peru

Oyon to Huasahuasi… How to find a Quality Compromise

June 20, 2014by fanwaar 2 Comments

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 […]

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On The Road, Peru

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POST CHRONOLOGY (NEWEST FIRST)

  • Friends in high places: Hiking the Welsh 3000’s
  • Fell Wandering
  • Pennine Way(s)
  • Counting forwards, counting backwards & counting lucky stars
  • The road to a new rhythm… Illinois through Wisconsin to Michigan
  • Argentine Tierra del Fuego: Lightly bumping the buffers
  • Chilean Tierra del Fuego: The warm fires of Gaucholandia
  • Peachy, Beachy, Patagonian Business
  • A towering Paine in the pampa
  • Glacier Perito Moreno… Big, blue and built like a brick shithouse
  • Seek and you’ll probably find… Spinning dirt to El Calafate
  • Monte Fitz Roy… A mountain worth waiting for
  • Austral acceptance & a nod to ‘normality’
  • Operation Austral Avoidance Pt.2: Valle de la Luna
  • Operation Austral Avoidance Pt.1: Paso Las Pampas
  • A mishap and a mission: Riding to Futaleufú. Hitching to Puerto Montt
  • How do I roll? A look inside my ride
  • Snaking south: A Lakeland adventure
  • Dust Guzzlin’, Monkey Puzzlin’ Perfection
  • Pedal(s) to the metal
  • Loving Santiago… Loving Cities

Blogroll

  • 'Contours of a country' with Will & Ruth
  • 'Off Route' with Knut and Skyler
  • 'Steeling Away' with Sam
  • 'While Out Riding' with El Gilberto
  • Anna takes you on 'a thousand turns'
  • Bicycle Nomad aka Banff To The Bottom
  • Bikepacking.com
  • Don Miguel (aka Mike Howarth)
  • Finding 'these places in between' with Cherry
  • Harriet & Neil are 'Pikes on Bikes'
  • Nick's Bike Tour
  • Paulie G's 'The Ride South'
  • Sarah & James' 'Big Sur'

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