El Cañón del Pato is a 150 kilometres long gorge that divides the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra in two different ranges. The small road that goes from the coast up to the Andes is a very twisty one that climbs and hinges amongst the rocks until it becomes clustered by two huge walls that are separated by only twelve meters… […]
The first weeks pedalling through the north of Peru were quite relaxed. Between Tumbes and Trujillo we rode 900 kilometres passing through several fishing villages and where always stopped to have a ceviche in the market or eat a cheap and abundant meal in a comedor. The stages of those days were basically flat and most of the stretches very well paved. The […]
Hola! Com va això? Jo sóc a Puno, celebrant les festes de la Candelària, abans no fer la darrera etapa pel Perú i entrar finalment a Bolívia. Han passat quatre mesos des que vaig entrar al país i, juntament amb la meva nova companya de viatge (no t’he presentat la Dominique?) hem pedalat uns 4.500 […]
Benvolguda Specialized Awol, Amb prou feines hem fet mil quilòmetres junts i per tant encara és massa aviat per fer balanços. Quan et miro, però, no puc evitar tenir aquella sensació de desig i d’optimisme que tinc sempre que estreno una bici (com aquella mountain bike que em van portar els Reis). T’he triat a tu per perquè la teva germana […]
Estimada Specialized Tricross, Junts hem recorregut molts països; junts hem escalat els ports del Pamir i atravessat el desert del Gobi; junts ens he enfrontat als óssos d’Alaska; junts hem provat de creuar la jungla del Darién; junts ens hem enfangat els peus i junts ens hem posat en moltíssims llocs on hauríem desitjat no […]
Ecuador is a small country but it has three completely different climatic zones: coast, high mountains and jungle. I wish I would have get lost cycling through the country for much longer, enjoying its nature and learning about its vast pre-Columbian culture, but I had to cycle to the border with Peru quite fast because a friend of mine […]
In Ibagué I said goodbye to Bernardo and Dean and Dang who went straight to Neiva while I decided to make a detour to Bogotá and visit a Virgin that looked quite familiar to me… From Colombia’s capital I cycled South towards Huila department through very calm and silent roads… Technically, […]
I arrived to Colombia through Capurganá and Turbo. After a few weeks riding through the department of Antioquia, I arrived to its capital, Medellín. There, I stopped for a few days at the Casa del Ciclista before I started pedalling towards El Eje Cafetero region. One of the good things of cycling through […]
Hola! Què tal? Jo, a punt de deixar Colòmbia, amb les cames molt carregades però content d’haver arribat als Andes i d’haver recuperat les sensacions de pedalar per alta muntanya. El trajecte amb llanxa des del Panamà va ser una mica accidentat: primer ens vam quedar sense gasolina i després se’ns va trencar el motor. […]
A l’entrar al Panamà vaig anar resseguint la costa caribenya per la província de Bocas del Toro fins arribar Chiriquí Grande. D’allà vaig haver de pujar quaranta quilòmetres molt durs per travessar la serralada central, però el descens fins al Pacífic va valer molt la pena i el vaig assaborir com una recompensa… L’etapa que em […]
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