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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 […]

Progress in Cusco

April 9, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

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 […]

Route 68 – 4×4 adventure at high altitude

February 29, 2024 by oyvinkyvik

We became aware of this mountain route while staying at the campground at Barbarco (Argentina) – a small village close to the Chilean border. When asking around for open and passable roads (where we may pass with a 4×4 vehicle), a fellow camper mentioned this route as an alternative and shorter route when returning to […]