October 19, 2018 – October 23, 2018
We were pleased to be on our way to a reserve that we had been dreaming about since we first started planning this trip. We had seen many images of Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa (I know, quite the mouthful) and were excited at the prospects of being at this really remote, high altitude area in southern Bolivia.
August 15, 2018 – August 17, 2018
We headed back to the coast. We would have preferred to stay in the mountains, but after seeing what the main highways could be like in the mountains, and seeing that the alternative mountain route to our next planned destination would take us onto secondary and tertiary roads, we decided to stick to some more developed highways even though it was a longer route.
August 9, 2018 – August 12, 2018
We drove south along the sandy desert of the northern Peru coast. It was desolate, dreary and depressing. The small towns we drove through were littered with garbage, as was the countryside. We saw people hanging their wet laundry outside of their adobe brick homes, just meters from the highway, and wondered how it could ever be clean when it was dry, because of all the dust in the air.
June 29, 2018 – July 2,2018
We got on the road about 8 or 9 am for the long slow drive along the back country roads from Salento to Ibague. We knew what the first 20 kilometres of so were going to be like, as we had ridden down it on a bike the day before with Doug and Lindsey, but we were excited to see what else the day would bring.