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Day #23: Imata - Arequipa (the end) — This is it. This ride concludes my bike touring trip across Peru. I could not have imagined a better way to do it than shredding some gravel across the Natural Reserve while being surrounded by
Day #22: Santa Lucia - Imata — Horrible day. 5h of battling headwinds. Legs were ok but my mind not so much. I wanted to toss the bike in the nearest ditch. Luckily there were plenty of restaurants in Imata plus couple
Day #21: Puno - Santa Lucia — Gravel day today (55km) with my first legit river crossing. Luckily it wasn’t extremely deep - thighs level. I was to lazy to carry the bike while crossing this river barefoot so I just walked
Day #20: Juliaca - Puno — Bloody wind… + all the rain gear was acting like a sail. Can’t remember when was the last time I was this annoyed while cycling. 😅
Day #19: Ayaviri - Juliaca — Flat but still very high (3900m above sea level). Reminds me somewhat of Yellowstone just at double the altitude. Head wind which was growing in force with every hour slowed me significantly down and deprived
Day #18: Sicuani - Ayaviri — Ayy… should have stayed 25km down the road in Aguas Calientes instead of Sicuani. Hot springs and stuff. :/ Mediocre legs today and no extreme motivation to go hard so I soft pedaled the whole
Morning Ride —
Rainbow Mountain Intermezzo — Rainbow Mountain was just as expected - overhyped. However the valley leading to it was simply amazing. Beautiful mountains, plenty of alpacas and lamas and a challenging gravel. The road was quite rough especially for
Day #16: Cusco - Pitumarca — Heading towards the Rainbow Mountains. Supposedly you can shred it by bike and it’s not a gnarly gravel so I’ll give it a try. It tops off at 5000m above sea level so that’s definitely
Macchu Picchu Intermezzo — Instead of cycling there I decided to take a direct train going through the Sacred Valley which is pretty much unavailable otherwise. (Saw some people on Strava cycling through it but honestly idk how. They
Morning Ride —
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