A Bloody Big Lake and a Sizable Bolivian City… Around Lago Titicaca to La Paz
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 […]
Category Archives: Peru
Colca Compromises… Up, Over and Around from Ayo to Yanque
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 […]
Deep Canyon Capers… Cotahuasi to the Colca
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 […]
Storms Over Paradise
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 […]
While Out Giggling… Vilcas Huaman to Antabamba
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 […]
Riding the Lircay Horseshoe: Confessions of an Angry Gringo
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 […]
Dusting Down to Ayacucho
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 […]
Oyon to Huasahuasi… How to find a Quality Compromise
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 […]
