One guy that I had met said that he was stopped by the police 17 times in the 200km’s coming up to Lima. I did see police along the road and they always look a bit menacing as they are quite big guys and usually look a bit grumpy but I managed to make [...]

The next day I did a day trip to Chavin de Huantar to see these 3,500 tunnels and carvings. The best bit was that I sat beside Aurthur from Costa Rica who let me practice my Spanish for two hours on the way there and on the way back listened to my concerns about [...]

Altitude and wine don’t mix. After getting up to do a walk with a couple of German girls I had the menu of the day which came with either coke or wine. As I don’t really like cola I had wine and had a headache for the rest of the day as Huaraz [...]

We stayed in another tiny fishing village but stayed in a hotel this time so the guys showed up an hour and a half after we agreed to meet so we were a bit late getting on the road to do the mountain pass to the Cordillera Blanca. The Cordillera Blanca is a region [...]

That night we stayed in Huanchaco near Trujillo where the locals surf with narrowed pointed fishing rafts known as caballitos (little horses) made out of totora reeds. I would have loved to have gone on one but it was too cold for me. We also visited Chan Chan an adobe city that [...]

The next morning with a good proportion of the town standing around our camp site it only took the guys two hours to get ready to leave and we were on the road by nine. We stopped off at El Brujo which housed an ancient ceremonial complex and museum about the burial tomb of [...]

Near Chiclayo was a ‘world class’ museum based around the burial tomb of a pre-Inca lord. I showed up at Court’s and Sylvan’s hotel after we agreed that we would leave at eight thirty to get to the museum when it opened.. They were finally ready to leave by two in the afternoon [...]

As well as being famous for the surrounding archaeological sites Chiclayo is also famous for South America’s most comprehensive witchdoctors’ market ‘Mercado de Brujos’. So Court and I went hunting for a remedy for the infection in his leg from the bike accident in Colombia. He saw a wich doctor while we were [...]

I must admit that as much as I love traveling with Court and Sylvan I am struggling with the pace. The first morning we left three hours after I was hoping to leave. The second day it was a three hour shopping stop. Plus we are stopping every thirty to forty minutes.
But [...]

So far Peru is great. The customs officials were lovely and the three of us got through in an hour. It is finally warm and a total change of scenery riding through the desert with the wild flowers along the side of the road. It does seem poorer than Ecuador and the [...]

They call it the Valley of Longevity as the people who live in this village in Ecuador are extremely long lived. They think it is because of the climate, water quality and that they are nice to each other. My vote is on the water.
After eight months on the bike my fitness level [...]

Court’s motorcycle belt still hasn’t shown up so I decided to head off and hopefully Court and Sylvan can catch up with me. At some construction work I ended up on the wrong part of the road and when I tried to pass one of the trucks something happened that almost pushed me over [...]

Turns out that Court is waiting for a belt for his bike and can’t go anywhere until it arrives from the US so I just had a day bumming around. I spent three hours trying to upload my photos but the internet connection just wasn’t letting it happen. Then I had to cook [...]

I got an email from Court and Sylvan an American and French bloke on their bikes that I met in Cali saying that they were in Zamora not far from where I was so I decided to catch up with them as they are keen to ride down to Peru together. It was brilliant, [...]

Guayaquil is Ecuador’s largest city (2mil) and is a maze of highways. I asked a transit police truck how to get through Guayaquil towards Cuenca and they led me through 10 miles of town and then 25 miles out of town onto the right road. Thanks to the Ecuador Transit Police. I [...]