We left Costa Rica on a Monday morning. Blue skies at Tamarindo gradually faded to grey as we rode into a heavy front of rainy weather. We stopped just on the edge of it to don wetsuits and rode the last 30 or 40 miles to the Nicaraguan border at Peñas Blanca in a downpour. […]
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Arrival in Panama City
The flight to Panama was uneventful with a tedious 3-hour stop over in Bogotá. The bikes were packed on Friday, shipped out of Ecuador on Saturday, we flew out on Sunday and the bikes were promised to be ready for our collection on Monday. We arrived in Panama on Sunday evening at the tail end […]
The Inca ‘Trial’ & the Ghost of Machu Picchu
Well, we’ve done it! We have just had a long lie in followed by a scorching hot shower and then down to Jacks Café to join some of the girls from our team for a gut busting breakfast of Pancakes & Maple Syrup. It was well deserved; the past 4 days on the Inca Trail […]
Cusco
It was a great ride from Puno to Cusco through more mountains with that old world Celtic feel to them, a twisty road that loved to play and had us arriving in the Inca capital with huge grins on our chops. Cusco is an amazing city, surrounded by more mountains than you could shake a […]
Puno, Uros Reed Islands of Titicaca, Aftermath At Ilave, On to Cusco!
We had a day of rest in Puno where we booked up for another boat trip out on to the lake to see the famous floating reed islands – the Uros – and on to Taquile one of the bigger Peruvian islands. It was a great way to unwind after all the uncertainty and stress […]
Chilean Exit, Riders on the Storm, La Paz Revolution, Lake Titicaca & The Ferry from Hell!
The ride from Chile into Bolivia was short. 40 miles took us from Putre back through Lauca National Park to the border where we were quickly and efficiently exited by the Chilean Migration & Customs authorities. To complete the exit we had to go see the Police and met a charming chubby little Policeman suitably […]
San Pedro de Atacama, Back to Sea Level, Iquique and Arica
We had a fabulous time at San Pedro with days out to see Chile’s Valley of the Moon, the nearby Tatio Geysers and the pink flamingos at the Salar de Atacama on Lago Chaxa. It is a place of staggering beauty perhaps best left to the photographs to describe. The town itself is fairly small […]
Salta, El Castillo, Good Company & the Road of Many Colours!
Every now and again on a long trip like this, you come across a real treasure find. It may be some beautiful scenery, impressive architecture or a stunning road on the bike, but now and again it comes in the form of a special accommodation, an oasis on the road where you can rest in […]
Cordoba, Snakes & Ladders, On to Iguazú
We had a fairly quiet few days in Cordoba, waiting for the new fuel pump to arrive. It was a good time to walk the city streets, look in the shops and enjoy some fine food in some fine restaurants. It is a pleasant enough city for all of these amenities but, like Mendoza, there […]
The City At The End of the World! Ushuaia
Ushuaia could rightfully claim itself to be a jewel of a city. It does not contain beautiful buildings – it is mostly a collection of tin roofed single story dwellings built to withstand the horrific winter conditions of wind, snow & ice in this extreme land – nor has it a pleasing layout, built like […]
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