For remoteness, San Pedro to Antofagasta easily trumped anything we’d previously pedalled. Leaving the Argie border guards at Paso Socompa we each stocked up with 17 litres of mineral water, then turned south for Llullaillaco. Still with 14 days of…
Puna 9: The Plan
In short: cycling to, then climbing, nine 6400m+ peaks on the Puna. We fell in love with this area back in 2010, during our first biking visit to NW Argentina. Remote gravel tracks winding between giant volcanoes. Not a being…
Traversing Sairecabur: An Adventure with Anna (the biking Ninja)
We’ve never fallen in love with San Pedro de Atacama, despite its evident charms. One of them being that bikes are the most common form of transport. Another being that it’s the launch point for some wonderful trips into the…
Pedalling to the Puna – 29/11/10-1/1/11
After Peru we were tired and even skinnier than usual, so it was 10 days after reaching Aplao near Arequipa before we set off up the tedious hill from San Pedro de Atacama to the Paso Jama and Argentina. The…
Region II, Chile and South West Bolivia
We stayed a week in San Pedro, where we were fortunate to find a room at the Casa de los Musicos, an interesting place run by Miguel Angel, possibly the world’s happiest man, and Brigitte, a French philosophy lecturer, author…