Check out the distance covered today! Feeling suitably refreshed after 9 hours sleep Matt and I got a little carried away riding on Sunday. The fine weather,
great scenery and good quality roads played a large part in the mile munching. We are now at the last Peruvian town before the border with Bolivia and will cross on Monday morning. The day has seen us ride vast tracts of the high altitude southern Peruvian plains, topping out at one point at 4400m. We then traversed the edges of the mighty Lake Titikaka, which was as beautiful as you would expect given the snow capped Bolivian mountains to the east and a menacing stormy Peruvian sky to the west that has unloaded on Yunguyo tonight with avengence.
great scenery and good quality roads played a large part in the mile munching. We are now at the last Peruvian town before the border with Bolivia and will cross on Monday morning. The day has seen us ride vast tracts of the high altitude southern Peruvian plains, topping out at one point at 4400m. We then traversed the edges of the mighty Lake Titikaka, which was as beautiful as you would expect given the snow capped Bolivian mountains to the east and a menacing stormy Peruvian sky to the west that has unloaded on Yunguyo tonight with avengence.Following on from Matt's first official road kill a few weeks back when he hit a small bird, which I regretfully forgot to report, I almost went one better on Sunday when a lamb ran out in front of me. Of course it wasn't intentional and I honestly didn't have visions of a Sunday roast in my horizons, although that really wouldn't go a miss right now! The little thing obviously couldn't decide where it should run given the vast expanses of the Peruvian altoplano and opted instead to make a bee-line for Black Yammy. He definitely hit my front tyre, probably ricocheting off my left pannier as well, but luckily for all animal lovers out there, and our attempts to get to Ushuaia, I saw it run off onto the hard shoulder where his mate, who attempted harry kiry with Matt's bike, was hopefully waiting to comfort him. Given the amount of road-kill we've seen on this trip an event like this was going to happen sooner or later. Luckily it wasn't serious.
Anyways, I've also managed to upload a lot of new photographs to the web link to the right given that in Yunguyo on a Sunday night there isn't a great deal to do except watch Steven Seagel films in Spanish. The new pictures start at "2008-11-18 - Ingapirka". Enjoy the new shots.
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Great pictures sweetpea. Good luck with the boarder crossing.. K&K
The last few posts have been great reading. And thanks for updating the photodatabase. Looks like you might be getting a bit arty f***ty on us with the black and whites! Nice to see you got ahead of the pesky tourists at Macchu Picchu (prob wrong spelling). The Japanese are always weighed down by their Sony photographic kit.
Have a good one in Bolivia
P
On your ride from Nazca to Cusco, how far did it turn out? Where did you stay and did you have any difficulty finding gas for the bikes? Thank you.
Amazing photos and tales, can't wait for the next instalment!
Dearest Comrade Stu & Matt,
Who can you trust! "Shining path" clearly as you would say in your country "couldn't cut the mustard" when it came to the old "retaining people on holiday longer than expected routine"! I am totally embarrassed by all this, I mean I promised Mrs Jamieastos some nice English boys for dinner, or for dinner, but now the pot is empty!
Hope you still enjoying yourselves.
Comrade Jamieastos,
Former member of FARC & Shining Path, now unemployed
PS. Any chance you could just drop back into Columbia and pop round for a cup of tea?
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