Peru | 2025 | February

Day 20 we did our best to get across the border between Peru and Bolivia. We missed the border office we needed to leave Peru and ended up at the Bolivian office without the papers to exit Peru. We had some fun going against traffic splitting lanes between Semi trucks to get back to the Peruvian border office. Immigration was happy to let us cross the border but not with our bikes. Clemens, a German in our group who speaks fluent Spanish, attempted every story to get us across the border. Including one in which Miichaela, another member of our group, was his mother and this was her last chance to ride Bolivia. Back to Puno… 

Day 21 we focused on getting set to watch the Superbowl. We left Puno which was having the Virgin of Candelaria festival, a huge celebration. Took a short ride to Juliaca and eventually found a sports bar.  Clemens used WhatsApp to communicate with the bar owner and in the end we had a whole room of TVs to watch Superbowl 59!

Day 22 we rode from Juliaca to Pisca through some easy rolling terrain. Stopped for breakfast and coffee at what ended up being a really enjoyable pottery art studio.

Day 23 we explored the town of Pisca and the Parque Arqueológico Pisac, one of the main archaeological sites in the area. We had also hit 3067 km on our Honda XRE 300s so we took them in for an oil change and some maintenance.

Day 24 

Day 25 took us on a pretty good two lane road PE-28B between Ollantaytambo to Quillabamba. The road consisted of 144 km of switchbacks up and down. It was an amazing ride going from high and cold to low and hot!

Day 26 took us on 24 km of PE-28B, a great two lane route between Quillabamba to Kiteni. Then 105 km of PE-28B a challenging one and a half lane between Quillabamba to Kiteni.

Day 27 took us on 164 km of PE-28B the most challenging of our 4 days in the mountains. Same lane and a half with pot holes and washouts but with the addition of long stretches on mud. 

Day 28 took us on 192 km of PE-28B . Same lane and a half with pot holes and washouts.  But it did start with a great breakfast and end with a Carnival footrace in Ayacucho!

Day 29 took us on 261 km of the PE-3S. This road was easier to negotiate then PE-28S as it was more consistently good for a stretch and bad for a stretch. We did get shaken down by some bandits at a bridge for six Soles. We also crossed our path from Day 7 to start the upper half of our Peru figure eight loop.

Day 30 took us on 360 km of PE-3N a nice two lane highway to Huanuco.  The first half was cold and rainy but we persevered as the accommodations in Huanuco looked pretty plush after a long stretch in the mountains.

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