After hiking the Santa Cruz Trail with our basecamp in Caraz we dropped of our rented backpacks again and cycled from Caraz to Huaraz. It’s just an one day stretch to the bigger and more touristic Huaraz. We stayed here for a few days before we hopped on a bus to Lima.
In the first place Lima was not in our planning at all. It’s just another big city, it’s far from our ongoing route south and it’s along the cost, out of the Andes Mountain Range which means a lot of extra climbing when we wanna pick up our route south again. Unfortunately we had visit Lima to bring a visit at the Dutch Embassy. Arjan sold his apartment in Holland so official documents had to be arranged. We didn’t want to fly back to Holland for this so we had to find ourselves an embassy through which everything could be signed without flying back to Holland.The Dutch embassy in Lima was one of the very few options in South America to do this.
Cycling to Lima was no option because of the appointment which was in two days.
After all Lima was not to bad. At the embassy everything went smooth and in the meanwhile we discovered the big city.
From Lima we catched a bus again into the High Andies around the town of Cusco. Cusco is very touristic, this is THE town from where 95% of all tourists visit Machu Picchu. In Cusco we found a Casa del Ciclista to camp. The owner was an ex-tourguide and he was able to arrange a Machu Picchu tour for us the cheap way ?
Machu Picchu was high on our “What to do and to see in the world” list for a long time already, so we where really excited to finally bring a visit to MP.
After Machu Picchu we finally jumped on our bikes again for the last couple of kilometers in Peru. The popular Rainbow Mountain and Lake Titicaca where nice to visit though Titicaca was very cold, rainy and windy. Not real fun.
Pictures according to the story above, see below ?
Have fun!!!
Elstgeest
Het was wederom weer mooie reisverhalen met prachtige foto.s . Nog mooie fietsdagen gewenst door ons Gr Wim en Truus
Mariëtte
Super mooie foto’s! Het ziet er erg koud uit op sommige foto’s. Geniet van jullie laatste stuk!
Danny meerwijk
Wat een prachtige foto.s echt bijzonder wat jullie doen.
Once in a life time experience
John Mercer
Love those pictures of Macchu Pichu! Reminds us of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. In the US there is a place like this, Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. It’s not as well known and not visited much- it’s in the middle of nowhere in the desert. It used to be a large city of 100,000 or so with many large buildings. I haven’t been there yet but it’s on my list.