Another day of cycling through the amazing Peruvian landscape, as Agusti and I headed out of the small village we never quite got the name of, and cycled for Mayocc.   It had rained overnight, and whilst there were some muddy puddles first thing in the morning, for the most part, it had done us a favour, leaving the hard, unsealed road almost spongy.   It wasn’t … [Read more...]

Leaving Huancayo was pretty simple, although I had to ask for directions in a couple of places. There then began a 3 hour uphill ride. The road went uphill through a valley of farmland.   I cycled by friendly people and through small villages as I reached the top. There then came a great 31 km long downhill section, made all the better by a wonderfully smooth road and … [Read more...]

A day off from cycling, and time to get the bike looked at... yet again! I sure hope this isn´t becoming a routine ! I managed to find a cluster of bicycle shops in the city of Huancayo on Calle Huanaco. I explained my problem, well, i actually had no idea what the Spanish for "wheel truing", "spoke nipples" and "truing stand" were, so there was a fair bit of sign language involved. My replacement … [Read more...]

I got a reasonably early start at 07.45, and headed out of La Oroya and towards Huancayo. The road was sealed, and either flat or downhill, meaning that i could average 25 km per hour, a speed I could only dream of these last two months of cycling dirt roads over the mountains.   A break two hours in for a Caldo, and then on the road again. About 11.00 I heard a horrible … [Read more...]

I woke up early to the sound of music and people dancing on the main plaza at 06.00. These girls had been practising the night before as well, so a festival must be imminent. Good luck to them, I say, as it was unbelievably cold that early in the morning, with a freezing fog hanging low and cutting off vision after a hundred metres. I went to the loo, and then got back into bed as quickly as I … [Read more...]