Trip through Colombia - Ecuador - Peru

My aim was to ride with my bike from Colombia up to Argentina, but an accident made me cancel my aim.

From february until april 2010, I rode 1220 km through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

The most beautiful impression I had, was to see Machu Picchu with my own eyes.

The longest stage I had, was when I rode from Otalavo to Quito. (135 km in 14 hours)

The highest point, that I crossed was on the way from Quito to Latacunga. (3300 meters)

Equipment: Two bags (each 40 liters), one bag at the handlebars, tent, air pump, two drinking bottles

At the border from Colombia to Ecuador - "Rumichaca bridge"

Thank you to the sainted hands of Don Luis Hernández, that enable me the continuation of my trip - Ecuador

View from the Volcano "Quilotopa" - Ecuador

View to the Volcano "Chimborazo" - Ecuador

Road in "Carchi" - Ecuador

Landscape in "Ibarra" - Ecuador

Landscape in "San Gabriel" - Ecuador

Half of the world "wide 0" - Ecuador

National Park "Cotopaxi" - Ecuador

At the border from Ecuador to Perú: "Huaquillas"

the only crater in the world, that is inhabited (Volcano "Pululahua") - Ecuador

experimental agriculture area of the Incas - "Morai" ; Perú

                                                                    

Machu Picchu : "old summit"

  

Machu Picchu- 2360 meters high

discovered in 1911

At the border from Ecuador to Perú

In "Cuzco" (3400 meters high)

Teenagers in typical andean costumes - "Cuzco" ; Perú

Cuzco: "hub of the world" ; capital of the Inca empire