posted December 03, 2004 07:57 PM
The road to Abancay We left Nazca and stated up to a place called Puquio in the west side of the mountains. We climbed from 300m (1000ft) to aprox.4000m (13000ft)!!! in 100km!! It was awsome. Switch back after Switch back with short sections of medium curves. This would be a top ride on a grunty sport bike, like a Ducati or KTM 920 or a VTR. One or two gears strait up! As it was I havent changed the stock jetting yet so the old DR600 was a bit wheezy but did a comendable job with 45kg of gear hangin off the back. Although power was down all of the trucks (mayby 8 total, like nobody on this road!) were having a hell of a time! Shit I could have gotten of an pushed the bike on by.
After a weezy night for ourselves at 3300m (needed a midnight coca tea to get through the night), we started off down a nasty water-trough dirt road which only lasted a couple a kms and then on to good pavement again. Guess what, another perfect road to a plateau with the same kind of riding. The only problem was that the plateau happened to be at 4500-frikkin meters!!!! This was a long straight cruise with some bends that would have your Busa or your 10 topping out at whatever speed it could possibly attain at this altitude. Too bad you can´t feed a bike Coca tea. WE stopped at a festering little roadside cafe at 4400m and drank more tea and ate papas frites as close to the sun as either of us have ever been. Good times.
After holding the throttle rocker open with one finger for a couple of hours, the road started to head down again, and fast. With the same amazing curves, but this time with some warmer weather and sunshine to add to the phenomenal riding. We had to stop and take pictures of these unbelievable corners heading down into the lush green valley, which leads to the town of Abancay. Good thing the ride was great cuz the town sucked.
We are now in Cusco, eating good feed, heading out towards Macchu Pichu to see if its true what they say about these Peruvian masons. Leaving the bikes in Ollantaytambo, half way there were the road ends and only the train carries on.
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posted December 03, 2004 10:43 PM
dayum... that night at 3300 must have sucked pretty bad. too bad u can't get thru all the high elevation stuff in one day.
question, how is the internet access there? i assume u'r posting from web cafe's, but is it pretty modern or ancient? and how are the temps?
posted December 07, 2004 08:00 PM
That's totally amazing! To make you feel even better I spent today digging frozen cable out of 4 feet deep snow with a pick axe on Mt. Seymour.... guess where I'll be at 6 am again tomorrow ? Yep...
Hope the two of you are having a great time.... and lay off that "special tea" .. yer gonna come back all extra twitchy. skinnier.. and then you'll start hanging out tin the casino and where all -white suits
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posted December 03, 2004 07:57 PM
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