Cycling from El Bordo to El Remolino in Colombia
I spent around a month cycling through Colombia as part of my Alaska to Argentina bike tour, making a blog post a day. This is from the section cycling El Bordo to El Remolino.
Riding between El Bordo and El Remolino
Blog Post Entry from 27 May 2010: A Nice Early Downhill from El Bordo
Jeff and Rose had left a half hour earlier than me, but the initial 350 metre drop out of El Bordo and the subsequent flatish section that followed meant that I soon caught them up.
We stopped for breakfast at a roadside restaurant, and then parted company there. They were going to do a shorter day, whilst I needed to hit my targets if I was to reach Ecuador before my visa expired.
There's a good chance I will bump into them again in Quito where I will take a week off.
I felt pretty strong cycling today, possibly due to the constant supply of good filling food, or maybe to do with the coco leaf I chewed before leaving.
The road was not without its dangers though as this truck driver discovered.
There were some nice hilly sections though, and when I hit the town of El Remolino I had definitely earned the right to call it a day - 82 km with over 1000 metres in altitude again.
Tomorrow promises to be even tougher, so rest, food and liquids were the afternoons activities !
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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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