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Granja Cinduli, Sierra Nevada

May 17, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

While at the coast of Northern Colombia (north of Santa Marta) at Palomino staying at a out of season beach camping site (we were the only campers for several days), we decided that we wanted to visit Sierra Nevada. We considered doing the 5-day hike to Ciudad Perdida, but we frankly neither liked the price […]

Crisscrossing the Peruvian Andes

April 16, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

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 […]

Crossing from east to west on Route 3N

April 15, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

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 by oyvinkyvik

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 […]

Inspired by other Overlanders, but still in doubt

March 27, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

As so many times in life, we are also now doing the opposite of most others. Many travelling Europeans are now returning from their various expeditions to park their more or less expensive and well-equipped vehicles (some of them litterally as cabins mounted on 4×4 trucks) at UY-Parking in Montevideo, while we are heading out. […]

Getting ready… Again…

March 25, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

22 of March we returned to Montevideo airport at 06:00 a.m. – tired after more than 15 hours flight from Barcelona via Bogota to Montevideo. But to our great surprise, Florencia and Ricardo, our friends from Atlántida, were there to meet us, give us a warm welcome, including some breakfast and homemade cookies. And they […]