The suffocating heat of the Transkei region made us decide to abandon the coast and head to the old british enclave surrounded by South Africa. Once we reached the town of Underberg, at the foothills of the Drakensberg range, we started pedalling through the steep and rocky trail that led us to the top of the iconic Sani Pass, one of the highest […]
TO BE TRANSLATED… SORRY. Ep, com anem? Quant de temps, eh… Espero que tot bé. Jo, després d’un llarg parèntesi laboral i familiar, al gener vaig encetar la tercera i última etapa de la volta al món. Em va costar una mica tonrar-me a acotumara la vida en ruta, però després de 3.200 quilòmetres i tres mesos d’hostals […]
After my frustrated attempt of climbing Mount Huayna Potosí (near La Paz), the South-West of Bolivia offered me the last opportunity to crown my first six thousand meter high peak. The Uturuncu volcano, measuring 6,008 meters high, was only a few kilometres away from my path. It is said to be one of the easiest six […]
Next to our incursion into Los Yungas region we returned to the Altiplano. In the town of Oruro we stopped two days to plan (with the help of a very useful PDF and the website Andes by Bike) the section of Bolivia that made me more excited: the Salar de Uyuni and the department of Potosí. After Santiago de Huari we arrived […]
From La Paz we set off for Carretera de los Yungas, sadly known as the Carretera de la Muerte (Death Road) due to the large number of accidents that occurred until 2007, when an alternative route was finally opened. El clima de la regió varia molt entre un extrem i l’altre, però en ambdós cantons de la ruta és […]
From Huaraz to Ayacucho I followed a part of the so-called Peru’s Great Divide that I found in Andes by Bike. Compared to the dimension of Peru it was not a very long stretch (a little more than 1,000 kilometres), but the the rainy season, the mud, the thin air and the accumulated efforts made me sweat for five whole weeks… […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Durant les primeres etapes per Hondures ja vaig haver d’empènyer força la bici, però el que m’esperava després d’Iriona era molt pitjor… Estava entrant a la Mosquitia, una àrea selvàtica molt aïllada que s’estén entre Hondures i Nicaragua on només es pot arribar en avioneta o per riu. La meva intenció era navegar fins a la població d’Ahuàs i després pedalar […]
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