Category: Peru

Our camp under the Puya Raimondiis had dropped just to freezing by morning, which wasn’t too bad given how close to that temperature it had gotten by bedtime. So our water remained in liquid state, but the wind had flipped direction overnight and it was quite annoying. It’s as if it always emanates from the…

Today we would begin our third crossing of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range. No, this high-altitude zig-zagging isn’t moving us south very efficiently! But we came to Huaraz and this part of Peru to see these mountains, and our previous two crossings indicate that we’d be fools to not do at least one more, if…

Today we were attempting one of the statistically biggest rides we’ve ever done, so it was nice that our hosts at Hotel Inca were willing to get up a little earlier than usual and have breakfast ready by 6:30am. We took the direct route out of town, which ended up being a pretty rough gravel…

Days 2-4 Our second day in Chavin was a well-deserved do-nothing day. At some point, the power went out, but we had no idea if it was just the hotel, or the whole town, since we didn’t even leave our room. While we could have manually done our own laundry in the hotel’s courtyard, we…

We began the morning with a becoming-customary wander around town in search of a place serving breakfast (Google seems particularly useless for this task in Peru). After 20 minutes with no luck, we resorted to asking our hotel host for a recommendation. He (with the help of his wife on the phone) recommended the central…