In Lima I based myself at a hostel in the fancy Miraflores neighborhood and prepared to wait. I had ordered a new tent from the States since MSR up there had been so kind to give me a nice discount. I knew from the tracker that it had already arrived in Lima airport, but, getting [ Read More ]
Distance: 87.98 km Ride time: 5:24:43 Average: 16.25 km/h Max speed: 44.73 km/h Total: 29927 km After half an hour of cycling it was time for a 7:30 am breakfast on the Panamerican Highway. The meat was already cooking. When I ordered an egg sandwich instead, the conversation went like “You don’t want any meat?”, [ Read More ]
Distance: 114.29 km Ride time: 7:08:22 Average: 16.00 km/h Max speed: 47.56 km/h Total: 29839 km I was expecting a tail wind on this part of the Panamerican Highway, but these days its just not happening. Oh well, still possible to make 100 km of daily progress, just takes a few more hours in the [ Read More ]
Distance: 110.45 km Ride time: 6:35:19 Average: 16.76 km/h Max speed: 38.01 km/h Total: 29725 km So far I would describe cycling in Peru as a lot of nothingness with a few villages in between. Today it was as if I somehow made it back to civilization. Instead of desert the road out of Ica [ Read More ]
Distance: 152.18 km Ride time: 8:06:46 Average: 18.75 km/h Max speed: 47.15 km/h Total: 29615 km The rest day in Nazca had done it’s wonders and I felt full of energy as I left town early in the morning. I had decided not to go on the tourist flight for the view of the Nazca [ Read More ]
Distance: 89.25 km Ride time: 5:03:24 Average: 17.65 km/h Max speed: 59.64 km/h Total: 29462 km My guide books describes Nazca as a sun-bleached spot on the Panamerican highway. I didn’t quite agree with that description as my day started in thick fog and even some light rain. Not that uncomfortable really, but just boring [ Read More ]
Distance: 88.45 km Ride time: 5:19:08 Average: 16.62 km/h Max speed: 53.25 km/h Total: 29373 km I left Chala early in the morning and headed into another “gray area” on my map. Nothing was mentioned for the next 160 km although I expected a few small villages on the way. I did indeed pass a [ Read More ]
Distance: 91.96 km Ride time: 5:17:57 Average: 17.35 km/h Max speed: 47.56 km/h Total: 29281 km From the morning the garúa or coastal fog put a blanket over the landscapes making up for some melancholic cycling. I certainly have had my share of sunshine over the last year, so I didn’t mind the change for [ Read More ]
Distance: 100.99 km Ride time: 6:33:17 Average: 15.40 km/h Max speed: 48.42 km/h Total: 29190 km When you are in the mountains it is sometimes difficult to find a flat spot to put up your tent, but once you find your spot the views will be great. I had arrived at my campsite rather late [ Read More ]
Distance: 84.15 km Ride time: 5:45:38 Average: 14.60 km/h Max speed: 46.33 km/h Total: 29089 km I was on my bike early, eager to cycle the final kilometers down through the lower Andes Mountains and arrive at the Pacific coast. It is amazingly more than 5 months since I have last seen the ocean! For [ Read More ]
