Cycling from Ayaviri to Puno in Peru
During my bicycle tour from Alaska to Argentina, I wrote a blog post a day. This travel blog covers cycling from Ayaviri to Puno in Peru.
Cycling out of Ayaviri in Peru
Travel blog post written September 20th 2010.
In the morning, I went for breakfast on the plaza, and saw a little old lady sitting in a pile of blankets with a pushcart. It gets really cold here at night and early morning, but here she was at 07.00 selling breakfasts.
Breakfast for me was two egg rolls and a drink called Maca. I have no idea what Maca is, but it tasted nice.
On the road, and then began a long day of cycling. So inevitably., I had to stop for breakfast number two an hour later.
It was probably just as well that I did, as the days cycling was over flatish terrain, which would have been great, had not strong winds cut into me for the last four hours.
Most of the day was a blur to me, although I remember cycling through Juliaca, whose reputation as a chaotic, windswept shithole seemed pretty well earned from my brief experience of it.
Cycling into Puno
Eventually in Puno, I checked into the Hotel Quno Wasi, where I will be based a few days as I wait for Heidi to catch back up.
Way back in Panama, I had met two cyclists Martin and Nessa, and we've been swapping emails on the road. I had hoped to catch them here, but they had left in the morning. Hopefully I can catch back up in La Paz, else I will be constantly nipping at their heels!
Two other cyclists were here however, Seth and Parker, (Seth - awesome name!) who I had met in the Estrillita in Cusco. They are moving on tomorrow, so it seems I will miss a birthday celebration in Copacabana - I'll crack open a tinny for you!
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Dave is a UK travel writer living in Athens since 2015. With 20 years of firsthand travel experience and over 80,000 km of bicycle touring across six continents, he's been blogging at Dave's Travel Pages since 2005. Every guide is based on places he's actually been.
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