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{ Monthly Archives } June 2013

another italian mission

PERÚ: ENCAÑADA — CAJAMARCA Taking pictures is easy but sometimes I run out of words to tell the stories. In Encañada, I ask at the parish if there is anywhere I can put up my tent for the night. The place is beautiful with the amazing intricate carved woodwork that seems to indicate the presence […]

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2013 06 26 anna on my bike Comments (0)

mummies, mountains and big hats

PERÚ: LEYMEBAMBA — BALSAS — CELENDÍN Leymebamba is famous for it’s mummy museum. Over two hundred mummies were discovered in 1997 in a tomb in the cliffs dropping vertically into the nearby Laguna de los Condores.

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2013 06 25 anna on my bike Comments (1)

kuelap

High above the river valley, two and a half hours walk up a rocky zig-zag trail, a crumbling pile of stones.

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2013 06 22 anna on my bike Comments (1)

first impressions of peru

The immigration official hails me from a restaurant on the other side of the road, where he is watching television. Making his way to the small shack – inconveniently placed on an embankment high above the road – that is the immigration post, he gets me to fill out a form, enters information in his […]

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2013 06 21 anna on my bike Comments (0)

trangia

Check out my new super simple cooking set up: a Trangia burner, a bit of twisted wire for the pot to sit on and some flattened beer cans for a wind shield. The Trangia burner is so simple that nothing at all can go wrong with it. The only potential drama is going to be […]

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2013 06 20 anna on my bike Comments (2)

exit south

The unexciting but essential bus journey to Quito/Tumbaco and back successfully accomplished, nothing remains but to cycle to the border. Bye bye, Ecuador.

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2013 06 17 anna on my bike Comments (0)

nice wheels

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2013 06 11 anna on my bike Comments (1)

vilcabamba/gringolandia

I am first alerted to something a little peculiar about Vilcabamba when I search for a place to stay in Loja via CouchSurfing or a WarmShowers host, mostly so that I have somewhere safe to leave my bike while I make the tedious journey north to pick up my tardy VISA card. Nothing surfaces in […]

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2013 06 10 anna on my bike Comments (0)

east

Reunited with my bike, back in Atillo, my mission is to leave Ecuador. The fact my new VISA card still hasn’t arrived in Tumbaco is a small impediment to this plan but nonetheless I head towards the border. The road drops down from Ecuador’s mountainous spine to the fringes of the Amazon jungle and apparently […]

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2013 06 07 anna on my bike Comments (0)

cuenca – a visual feast

I had no plan to visit Cuenca at all but when I attempt to return to Atillo where I have left my bike while walking in the hills it turns out to be a little more complicated than I imagined. A bus from Ingapirca drops me on the PanA at El Tambo but none of […]

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2013 06 01 anna on my bike Comments (7)