Cycling in Peru soon teaches you one thing: that the scale of this country’s landscapes is immense. So vast. So huge. A country so vertical that local people can’t even see a 1000m ascent. A climb bigger than England’s highest…
Riding Peru’s Great Divide: Part 3 – Good Mud, Bad Mud
For a few days after leaving Old Huanky the combination of rainy season and dirt roads began to manifest in some slightly muddy surfaces. As we manoevered our front wheels through puddles and round the brown stuff, Haz contemplated retiring…
Riding Peru’s Great Divide: Part 2 – The Sound of El Silencio
When heading out on rarely used dirt roads we’ve been asked a few times if we’re not afraid of ‘El Silencio’. That haunted silence which reigns in Peru’s wonderful mountain wildernesses. It’s hard for Peruvian campesinos to understand that it’s…
Riding Peru’s Great Divide: Part 1 – Impossibly Flat
Our route down Peru from Huaraz to Abancay was determined by one thing: taking the highest roads. From experience we knew this strategy normally provides great views, and our Google Earth planning seemed to confirm this. We would constantly be…
Cycling Peru’s Mountain Route
As far as we know, Peru is only rivalled by Tibet when it comes to high altitude dirt road touring. Which is why it’s depressed us a few times in Huaraz when we’ve had the following conversation with cyclists going…