Entry 4: 31-08-2025

Decisions, decisions… We left quite early in the morning again. Because of the conditions of the highway (a more pleasant slope and good tarmac but dangerous traffic with trucks and buses) we decided to follow a smaller parallel route to the village of Matucana....

Entry 3: 30-08-2025

An Encounter with the Police We got up at 5:45 AM, had breakfast, packed our belongings and got ready to cycle again. Leaving Lima was a very gentle incline but already being a bit further up in the mountains now the climb was steeper. The continuous incline and the...

Entry 2: 29-08-2025

The First Day of Cycling In our last entry we mentioned that hell would have to freeze over before we would cycle out of Lima. While that was easily said, it wasn’t quite so easily done to actually find a vehicle that had the capacity to carry three bicycles,...

Entry 1: 27 & 28-08-2025

If Only We Had Known… The title of our first blog entry says a lot. Especially considering that we had not even been in Peru for 24 hours by the time all those realizations struck us. After a long and tiring but otherwise good flight, we arrived in Lima. Given the...