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Peru Trip

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Dingo

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Not sure if anyone is interested but i figured i would post it anyways.

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I just got back from a 18day trip in Peru, we rented motorcycles for 7days and drove from Cuzco - Puno over the Andea's mountains and down to Ariquipa.

800km total, we could have done more but didnt want to kill ourselves

Bikes were 250 cc Honda Tornado's, we rented brand new bikes (90km on them), price including all the gear (helmet, tools, knee pads, elbow pads, jacket, gloves, goggles), insurance, unlimited KM all for $270 USD. We had to pay for gasoline of course.

I just bought a contour GPS for the trip and have posted some video's if anyone is interested:
http://contour.com/stories/200-meter-650-decline-peru

We got as high as 15,000 feet and the bikes couldnt pull any more oxygen. At some points the fastest we could go was 60kph (full throttle) and we were burning through gas, small sedan cars leaving us in the dust. Eventually on the way back down we had to drive through the clouds at one point:
http://contour.com/stories/riding-down-into-the-clouds-peru


It was cold as hell and we froze our ***** off (think Dumb and Dumber)... there are no gas stations, you fill up with whatever you can so quality control isnt the greatest.
http://contour.com/stories/gasoline-14600-feet

Some crazy things I saw were:
- 1000's of alpaca's
- stray dogs at the side of the road MILES from anywhere (wtf do they eat? other stray dogs?)
- 50 feet of broken glass at the side of the road, coke trucks would lose contol and dumb cargo at the side ... i did not want to wipe out there
- views and scenery


Enjoy
-Dingo
 
Dingo said:
Not sure if anyone is interested but i figured i would post it anyways.

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I just got back from a 18day trip in Peru, we rented motorcycles for 7days and drove from Cuzco - Puno over the Andea's mountains and down to Ariquipa.

800km total, we could have done more but didnt want to kill ourselves

Bikes were 250 cc Honda Tornado's, we rented brand new bikes (90km on them), price including all the gear (helmet, tools, knee pads, elbow pads, jacket, gloves, goggles), insurance, unlimited KM all for $270 USD. We had to pay for gasoline of course.

I just bought a contour GPS for the trip and have posted some video's if anyone is interested:
http://contour.com/stories/200-meter-650-decline-peru

We got as high as 15,000 feet and the bikes couldnt pull any more oxygen. At some points the fastest we could go was 60kph (full throttle) and we were burning through gas, small sedan cars leaving us in the dust. Eventually on the way back down we had to drive through the clouds at one point:
http://contour.com/stories/riding-down-into-the-clouds-peru


It was cold as hell and we froze our ***** off (think Dumb and Dumber)... there are no gas stations, you fill up with whatever you can so quality control isnt the greatest.
http://contour.com/stories/gasoline-14600-feet

Some crazy things I saw were:
- 1000's of alpaca's
- stray dogs at the side of the road MILES from anywhere (wtf do they eat? other stray dogs?)
- 50 feet of broken glass at the side of the road, coke trucks would lose contol and dumb cargo at the side ... i did not want to wipe out there
- views and scenery


Enjoy
-Dingo
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Wicked! But this is just a tease. What else have you got for us? :D
 
Wow dude you just achieved what I can only dream about, a bike ride of 100's of kilometers south of the border in some exotic place. Nice videos, I saw all of them!
 
Dingo - Have you read "two wheels through terror"
It's a good read about a fellows trip to the tip of SA. Just reading about his time in Peru now.....
 
I like the videos because it shows how so much of the world is not at all like Canada/USA
 
dirtbag said:
Dingo - Have you read "two wheels through terror"
It's a good read about a fellows trip to the tip of SA. Just reading about his time in Peru now.....
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no but im familiar with Glen Heggstad story, i saw the episode of his on I-Shouldnt-Be-Alive detailing how he got captured in Columbia.

As for S.A, I have been to Brazil (3 times), Argentina, Chile (now peru). I would defiantly go back to S.A. for motorcycle travel but Columbia + Brazil would be places i stay away from.

Peru was relatively safe, there is poverty and a couple of times i felt the warning bells going off but generally the people were friendly and pleasant. Im hoping to start up a yearly/bi-yearly motorcycle trip.

-Dingo
 
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