It’s strange to go from a life where every hour is recorded with a photo of some mountain scene, meeting different people everyday and sleeping at a different coordinate every night to a lifestyle where you sleep in the same place, spend all…
A Quick Review of Cicerone’s Hiking & Biking Peru’s Inca Trails
Last year when we were out in Peru having a ball hiking and biking mountain trails, the kind people at Cicerone sent us a review copy of their new guide, ‘Hiking and Biking Peru’s Inca Trails’. For various reasons we’ve…
Huayhuash: The Wonderful
There’s little doubt in our minds that the Huayhuash Circuit is Peru’s premier trek. Among the best on the continent, it’s right up there with anything this world has to offer. Rarely on our mountain wanderings have we encountered such…
Huaraz Biking and the Festival del Andinismo
One of the many joys of living in Huaraz is that it boasts the best mountain biking in Peru. Not that we’re mountain bikers, except in the sense that we love the mountains, and we love biking in them. But…
Wandering Huaraz’s Quebradas
East of Huaraz, deep valleys slice through the Blanca. On maps they resemble fingers on a hand. Most are little visited, being far from tourist itineraries and even further from your average Huaracino‘s idea of a good day out. For…