Peru-Ecuador

With time running out for us we had a few variations of a plan on leaving Quito. We threw bikes and ourselves in the back

Laguna Quilatoa is a flooded volcanic caldera that is 10km around its crater rim, and 300m deep. It was only a short ride from the

We are still having our fair share of inclement weather, Alan is battling a reoccurring bad tummy but in between we are having fun and

With rain, mud flows, walls of wind, sandstorms and a night at 4000m in a shepherds choza, we have certainly had an interesting time of

It was great to be on our bikes and heading north from Loja, on the Trans Equador Mountain Bike Route (TEMBR). We had a sweet

The attraction of the small village of San Pablo was the walk to the third highest waterfall in the world (actually the 17th, but don’t

We had been in communication with Mark and Hana (highlux.co.nz) who were heading south on the same road as our northward journey and we were

The Maranon river is one of the principle sources of the Amazon river, flowing east from the Andes. To traverse this catchment (heading north) means

Lady Luck shone us as we searched for a tent that would suffice and not cost too much. There was little in the stores which

We looked at the empty harness on the front of my bike in disbelief. The tent was gone, the clips undone… The bikes had been

After our standard town breakfast of tea/coffee and egg buns, we said goodbye to Pomabamba and started our climb up the gorge heading north. Maybe

We had spent pretty well the whole day cycling uphill, on a road, that when flicking thru a 2002 guidebook in Chavin 2 days previously,

We could have made it easy for ourselves and biked the shortest route to Chavin de Huantar on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca

In the 1940’s a glacial lake high above Huaraz burst its moraine dam and sent a wall of water and rocks down 1500 vertical metres

This time we headed south from Huaraz and we were carrying our accommodation and kitchen with us. If you thought we were travelling light on

Our first morning in Peru we were shaken awake by a terremoto (a trifle terre-fying) as our building shook with the 5.5 earthquake. That on

Welcome back….in mid May we are off again back to South America on our bicis – the leaves have mostly fallen here in Wanaka after