In October my brother in law and I went down to South America for a two week motorcycle adventure. We started in Arequipa Peru and finished up in La Paz Bolivia. It was absolutely amazing. Like every trip there were ups and down. But wow, it was fun.
I thought about just doing a quick update with a couple of picture. But, I just can’t. There was just so much happening. So, what I think I’ll do is to do a post for each day. Now, this may seem like a bit much, but have patience. Each day was a new location, new adventure, heck even a new ecology and environment. From High desert, coastal desolation, the Andes, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, etc.
We ended up going through a company called Peru Motors.
They have multiple different tours. Ours was the Trans Andes tour.
Here is a map of our journey.
After getting to the hotel and relaxing for a few Thomas and I wandered down to the central square for a meal and beer. What’s interesting is that each town has its own beer. As you can see we were drinking Arequipena. It’s the name of the town with ena tacked on the end. Cusco had Cusqueña.
Ignore the haggard look. I’d been going for about 20 hours at this point. Sleeping on a plane is nearly impossible for me.
Walking around after dinner and a beer we found a park with Llamas. Our first sighting. The first of many many many sightings.
One really crazy thing that we found was a small bar/pub on our walk back to the hotel. A place called the Chelawasi Beer Company. If you look at the picture you will see stickers and bar signs from Oregon, California, Utah, and Washington. In a bar in Peru. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. I guess I just don’t travel enough to realize how much others do. Besides all the US stickers and the like they had really cute gnome/elf beer drinking art painted around the floor and walls.
And now you start to see the dilemma. How do I just do a quick blurb about a 16 day trip in and around South America? I can’t. It was just to amazing an experience.
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