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Once back in full physical order, we felt confident enough to leave Lima and head on to Ecuador. After three days of watching Netflix and literally chilling, we were looking forward to making progress on the journey and camping again. Two hours outside Lima (it took 3 to leave the city thanks to the creative…

Everything looks so simple on googlemaps. The road from Cusco to Lima is about 1100km of Andean beauty, in other words: less than 20 hours of riding. We decided perhaps 3 days/2 nights would be enough to get us to Lima comfortably and setting off from Cusco, we enjoyed the winding roads more now that…

Our tour guide reluctantly showed us Macchu Picchu (the remains of the noble’s city) and explained the significance of the mountains surrounding and the stonework on each building. Being that the recognisable image of MP is the cascade of neat stone buildings surrounded by lush vertiginous mountains, he started there. This Pueblo was inhabited by…

Our hosts in Bolivia suggested we travel via Copacabana on Lake Titicaca to cross to Peru. Not only did this mean seeing a new route (and consequently more of the lake itself) it meant having to cross the lake border by raft. Yes, by RAFT. We were so excited by this notion we immediately routed…

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Everyone from the motorbiking club members to the German-speaking Argentinians who gave us water on the tortuous road from the national park warned us against Bolivia, albeit for very different reasons. Note: we discovered the sand pit road is actually in a national park (below) other bikers beware, it’s a long long road of sand…

We left Calama knowing it would be a two day ride to La Paz. First to Arica and then on to La Paz via Ruta 11. The bikers in Calama warned us of road closures near Arica and advised us to have a hearty lunch at the last big village before the Camarones where the…

San Pedro features highly on all must-see lists for Chile. An area situated in the heart of the Atacama desert, its proximity to both Bolivia and Peru made it an easy place to stop. Both excited to see what it had to offer (brief research showed it to be full of amazing sights) we planned…

The accommodation was finally and miraculously sorted at about 10pm and we ended up in an apartment in the heart of Santiago. The morning was beautiful and it set us up for a good few days of sightseeing. Santiago was our base for a few days to allow us to see the Andes and explore…

“Before crossing the Andes, make sure it’s summer”. That basically described 99% of our conversations with others who’d done the crossing. There’s a twitter feed which is incredibly useful (Pasos Fronterizos ) which is fed directly from any crossing to Chile. We’d been intending to cross from Mendoza straight through to Santiago through Los Libertadores…