Day 352, 7866km, Chiclayo. Today we arrived dirty and tired to a hotel, Kira let the water run for shower and then this conversation happened:
S: Hey, the water sounds warm!
K: Hm??? What?!?
S: Yes, in Peru I can HEAR the temperature!
The background story for this: not all houses in Peru have running water, or showers, or hot running water, same applies for hotels as well. So even the hotel would write ‘we have hot water’ that might not be the case. Every time we sleep at another hotel, first thing we do is to check the water temperature. It usually varies from ice cold to just cold and rarely gets warm and even rarer hot. But there are many tricks how to reach the ‘as warm as it gets’ temperature, and those tricks include lots of hearing and waiting for some special sounds. So, after 4 months in Peru we have a new skill – hearing the water temperature.
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We met Axel
Last week we met Axel on the road. We ended up in his weekly report. So here it is! Check out his other videos as well!
https://www.facebook.com/axchikistan.nayuta
Trujillo
Hey there,
after some exhausting days we arrived at Trujillo. We have had basically 4 months of cycling without seeing any other people on bikes. Now the unexpected happened. We met Axel before entering Chimbote. Then in Chimbote we met a cyclist from Belgium going the other direction. We decided to find a hostel for the 3 of us. In Trujillo we met Toto and Laura from Germany going down to Buenos Aires. Two further german bikers moved out of the city but because of the traffic one did not see us and continued his way. So bikers, where have you been all the time?
Update: You can find more information about Laura and Thomas on their blog!
Caral
Yesterday we visited 2nd oldest ruins in the world – Sacred City of Caral. Today we did something even more incredible – we vaccinated Tulku. This simple procedure which usually takes 5 minutes in Europe took us 2 days, 3 towns, 20 vets and endless online research hours. This vaccine should take us up to Alaska, but we’re not sure if it will take us back to Europe. But we will deal with this issue next year.
Top Places in Argentina
We want to introduce a new category of postings. Proudly we present our favourite lists. We start with Sven’s top 5 favourite places in Argentina!
5. Ushuaia
4. Bariloche
3. Perito Moreno Glacier
2. Quebrada de Humahuaca
1. Salta region
Meanwhile Kiras list looks like this:
5. Quebrada de las Canchas
4. El Calafate with perito moreno
3. Ushuaia
2. Quebrada de jachal
1. Purmamarca
World champions
We won! We won! we won! I think I am gonna start a bike convoy in the city! Congrats to Germany!
Tulku was bitten
So we found an excuse to sit at home and watch football all day long… Last week Tulku was bitten by a big dog and had a surgery. It’s not really healing well, because Tulku keeps on trying to take out the stiches, so she had another surgery today and was prescribed to wear pants in order to heal better. They didn’t have just pants in the market, so now we have a baby dog.
Biketour in Lima.
Today we did an awesome biketour in Lima. Thank you guys!
Day 295
Day 295, 7016km – Lima! Couple of days ago a guy from the sky landed in front of us (he was paragliding) with some good news. Thanks Chris for letting us stay at your place!
Day 279
Day 279, 6535km, Nazca! So here we are, just around the corner the mysteriuos Nazca lines. They say we can still see them after 2000 years, because the climate here is so dry and windless. It doesn’t explain why we had rain for last 2 days and near-hurricane winds as well…
Boundless Biking 