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 […]
Tagged (extra)ordinary angels, people, perúThe 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 […]
Tagged perúThe unexciting but essential bus journey to Quito/Tumbaco and back successfully accomplished, nothing remains but to cycle to the border. Bye bye, Ecuador.
Tagged border crossings, ecuador, leaving, on the highway…
Tagged ecuadorI 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 […]
Tagged ecuador, village lifeReunited 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 […]
Tagged ecuador, on the highway, rain