• Potosi, city of tarnished silver [42/50]

    Potosi, city of tarnished silver [42/50]

    It was an easy 200 Km ride from Sucre (the capital of Bolivia) to Potosi along a lively, brisk paved road. Although there are 42,000 Kms of roads in Bolivia, only 2000 kms of them are paved. Plus petrol stations are few and far between and when you finally find one, there is no guarantee…

  • Sucre, Capital de Bolivia [41/50]

    Sucre, Capital de Bolivia [41/50]

    The ride from La Paz to Sucre was too far to do in one day, so I rested in the desolate mining town of Oruru on the way. This ended up being a wise decision as it took forever to get out of car-chocked La Paz. La Paz is located in a broad, deep valley…

  • La Paz, not a city of angels [40/50]

    La Paz, not a city of angels [40/50]

    The ride from Copacabana to La Paz was a short, pleasant one, passing crystalline lakes and broad vistas of snow-capped Andean mountains (and not to forget the herds of wild, fluffy Llamas). In the late morning, making good progress, I rode into a small, relaxed lakeside town, but unfortunately, the road had vanished. I have…

  • Lake Titicaca [39/50]

    Lake Titicaca [39/50]

    The last stop of my two-month Peruvian sojourn was Lake Titicaca, a colossal and very deep lake high-up on a never-ending Andean plateau (the Altiplano). The lake is split between Peru and Bolivia and in case you were wondering, it is where the Sun was born. Lake Titicaca is the spiritual home and birthplace of…

  • Colca Canyon with rum…[38/50]

    Colca Canyon with rum…[38/50]

    From the shabby mining town of Mazuko in the Peruvian Amazon, it was a tough two-day ride to bucolic Colca Canyon near Arequipa in Peru’s south. It rained heavily on the first day, but it didn’t seem to matter that much as it was so damn hot. But as I climbed out of the Amazon…

  • Riding the Interocianic highway into the Peruvian Amazon [37/50]

    Riding the Interocianic highway into the Peruvian Amazon [37/50]

    The diversity of landscapes and climate in South America is challenging to traverse at times, especially on a small 125cc moto. But South America keeps giving up the gold as does the moto that only seems to scream and splutter and skip a heart beat to tease me when I’m on top of a 4000-metre…