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

Newspaper articles in South America

Interviews - Colombia: " El meridiano " de Sucre," El Heraldo"de Barranquilla, " Al diá " de Santa Marta, " Q` ubo" de Santander, " La Opinión" de Cucuta. Venezuela:" La Nación",de San Antonio del Táchira  and Peru: " El Comercio"  de Lima.

"A Globe trotter by bicycle"

"Gustavo, the Warrior of the way"

"Became tan because of so much biking"

"Crossing of Colombia"

"The Globe trotter visiting Sucre (Colombia)"

"Camino de Santiage de Compostela" (France - Spain)

From the 16 to the 23 of March in 2007 I completed the "Camino de Santiago de Compostela". Because I aldready was accredited as a pilgrim I was allowed to spend the night at monasteries from the "Camino". In some monestries I got to know some groupes of people, in which they spoke up to six diffrent languages.

First stage:St Jean Pied de Port (Francia) - Pamplona (España) -80 km

Second stage: Pamplona - Logroño - 104 km

Third stage: Logroño - Burgos - 123 km

Fourth stage: Burgos - Carrión de los Condes - 92 km

Fifth stage: Carrión de los Condes - León - 120 km

Sixth stage: León - Ponferrada - 114 km

Seventh stage: Ponferrada - Samos - 109 km

Eighth stage: Samos - Santiago de Compostela - 110 km

Monument of the pilgrims - Spain

"Puente de la reina" - Spain

"Puente de la reina" - Spain

short break to enjoy the landscape - Spain

My bike needed a short break - Spain

primitive protection against coldness -Spain
(wore my socks as gloves)

"Knight Templar" castle- Spain

Sign: "Free route without death" - Spain

Monastery in Samos - Spain

break at the Pyrenees - France

"Hornillos": outside dryer - Spain

Break to enjoy the snow - Spain

apartments in the inside of the mountain - Spain

The bridge taht I have to reach - Spain