Saturday, February 7 We stirred in the middle of the night to the sound of heavy rain, but by the time we woke up, it had stopped raining, which pleased us greatly. We had planned on doing another excursion on the Cordillera Blanca to the pass of Punta Olympica, which has great vistas and dirt […]
Friday, February 6 Our plan for today was to take the side boxes off the bikes and visit one of the highlights of the area, Laguna Paron. Unfortunately, we discovered that the road into the mountains was closed, so we decided to ride to the next village of Yungay and take a dirt road to […]
Thursday, February 5 Today was one of the most difficult and beautiful rides of our trip. We were venturing east off the coastal road into the heights of the Peruvian Andes, the Cordillera Blanca. Our destination was a small village of Caraz where we planned on staying for another day to take a day trip […]
Wednesday, February 4 Breakfast wasn’t included in this hotel, so we had a quick breakfast next door for $6 total. Peru was much cheaper than Ecuador if you avoided the obvious tourist places. We were on the road by 9, only to go park ourselves back at the Yamaha dealer. I had decided overnight I […]
Tuesday, February 3rd It felt like it had been ages since we crossed into Ecuador so anticipation was high for a border crossing. I actually felt rusty about the procedure, but we’d read this was going to be a very chill crossing that wouldn’t take too much time. We had breakfast at the hotel, went […]