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“Next”……..!

April 26, 2025

The process of “crossing borders” has changed a lot and it has generally become a much better organized and smoother procedure usually with the immigration/emigration and customs offices of the countries sharing a border being physically placed next or close to each other. However, sometimes technical and digital challenges have prolonged our border crossings – […]

The hotel Tuki Llajta Huancayo appearing out of nowhere

April 20, 2025

This is just a small anecdote of how you sometime get help sometimes when feeling lost…… We had been driving most of the day – probably too long and for too long time – and we had already in vain approached several possible campgrounds and potential lodgings. It was getting late, and our pace was […]

Crisscrossing the Peruvian Andes

April 16, 2025

16.04.2025 we reached Huaraz. A little lost for a while on the steep street, we ended up, by chance, checking in at Santa Cruz Hotel relatively late at night (after dark). Next morning at breakfast, we discovered the dining room’s spectacular view to the Cordillera Blanca, one of Peru’s most famous mountain chains. As we […]

Puno – a shower, a good meal and Toyota maintenance

April 15, 2025

We already know Puno and since we really needed a shower after a number nights in the tent, we decided to stay a night in a hotel next to Lake Titicaca in the outskirts of town. The plan was to hook up with a couple we met along the route, who were staying/camping outside the […]

Crossing from east to west on Route 3N

April 15, 2025

Peru is a long and at times complicated country to cross by land. We spent the night “hiding” behind some big tractor-trailers in the corner of a gas station in Huánuco. With the purpose of avoiding a long deviation (implying returning to the south-west towards the coast) in direction of Lima, we contemplated following Route […]

Life is good… bumpy and full of surprises

April 13, 2025

Life is good and life is interesting but also exhausting when spending many hours behind the steering wheel on narrow dirt-roads of what sometimes feels more like a four-wheeled dual-sport (motorcycle) than a truck. It does absolutely everything and is literally unstoppable but of course we lack the comfort of a more modern vehicle. But […]

Visiting Cusco’s public hospital

April 10, 2025

Fortunately, we did not go to the hospital due to any kind of medical problem. Rather, it was our plan to see if it was possible to meet a person Mona knows…. A person who is working as a medical doctor and who also serves the community as a nun. We arrived at the main […]

Progress in Cusco

April 9, 2025

We entered Cusco relatively late in the afternoon and as we approached the city center, we were initially chocked by the traffic congestions and chaos as we arrived from the rural Peruvian plateau. Anyway, after struggling for a while to find our way out of the afternoon rush-traffic (neither Google maps nor the GPS were […]

History as a learned interpretation of past events

April 2, 2025

We have visited several historical sites during our travels, and so also on this route. One of the first Inca settlements we visited where in Tilcara, Argentina. We jumped on a short, guided tour (guided by a young indigenous man) who told his story and took us through a brief and well-presented narrative of […]

Should we stay or should we go?

March 29, 2025

The next few days we stayed in an Airbnb posada in Santa Maria (a small town further north in Brazil along the border to Uruguay/Argentina). The objective of our stay, was to find out what to do next – should we turn south or north? After several pro/con evaluations including many estimated variables and discussing […]