On Tuesday, October 2, we had a 2-hour ride from the town of Puno to the border crossing for Bolivia. We stopped on the way to take a look at Lake Titicaca, but we didn’t have a good viewpoint and just our cell phones so we didn’t the greatest picture. Boo hoo for us. Lake […]
Monday was a great day to visit the 15th-century Inca citadel that has countless numbers of foreigners visiting Peru for. We knew we would be going to Machu Picchu since the inception of this trip and after 420 days on the road, we made it. Yes, it is heavy on the tourist traffic; however, it […]
After two weeks of dormancy, it was time to hit the road again. Next stop was in the city of Ica, around 4 hours from Lima. The plan was to visit the nearby Huacachina, Peru’s “oasis in the desert” that is around 5 kilometers away from where we stopped. Huacachina is a little village built […]
Riding into Lima was, quite possibly, our most stressful arrival upon a city on this trip so far. I have ranted about Peruvian drivers being certifiably insane and Lima, being the capital city, seems to be a cesspool of the worst drivers imaginable. Not only did it seem like everyone on the road was trying […]
On Monday, August 20, we crossed the border from Ecuador into Peru. It was a bit long because we had to wait in a relatively slow-moving line on the Ecuador side, but the process itself was straight-forward. Details are on our Border Crossings page. Our first impression of Peru was far from good, to […]
Upon hearing about the beautiful colonial city of Cuenca, we knew that this was one place we needed to visit before leaving Ecuador so, after spending a great week in Quito, we headed south. Since the road to Cuenca is an 8-hour ride, we split the journey into two trips with a stop in the […]
On July 31, we bid farewell to magical Colombia and crossed the border into Ecuador. We used the Rumichaca border crossing, which was fairly straight-forward and fast at around an hour and 15 minutes. For details, refer to our border crossings page. Our first stop was in Ibarra, a charming little town around two hours […]
Mention Colombia to anyone and more likely than not, they will think of the TV show Narcos, Pablo Escobar, cocaine, drug trafficking, or armed conflict. Well, here’s some news for you: those preconceptions are far-removed from the Colombia of today. Everyone we met who had been to Colombia prior to our visit raved about the […]
We left MedellÃn on the morning of Wednesday, July 25, and rode south for almost three hours to our next stop in JardÃn, a colourful colonial town with an abundance of flowers, as its name implies. We arrived fairly early in the afternoon, giving us a good amount of time to have some lunch, check-in at our […]
We have a new video up on our YouTube channel where we share a little more magic of Colombia as we travelled through the country from the City of Eternal Spring, MedellÃn, to the home of the Las Lajas Sanctuary, Ipiales. Enjoy, subscribe, and share! 🙂
