When I finally returned to Arequipa I was welcomed by Aldo and his two Croatian friends. With my camera now back in working order I could take a few more photos of this beautiful city, located the foot of the Misti Volcano. We used to have a guinea pig as a pet when I was [ Read More ]
When I took the flight from Australia to Argentina back in November I had been bringing my trusty Bianchi road bike which had already carried me 20000 km from Denmark to New Zealand. Now I decided it was time to go back to Salta in Argentina to pick it up. I parked my Scott mountain [ Read More ]
It had been an amazing experience to climb the 6057 m high Chachani mountain, but it came with a price. On the way down, in -15 degrees and insane levels of dust, my beloved Canon camera finally met it’s limit – it simply stopped to work. It certainly have had a very rough life over [ Read More ]
Ever since I had turned around at 5600 m on the Huayna Potosi mountain I had been looking for another 6000 m peak to climb. My mind soon got fixated on Chachani. For a week I had been looking up at the impressive peak from my hostel in downtown Arequipa. Together with Matthias and Barnabas [ Read More ]
Coming back from the mountains, you are usually not worth a whole lot the next day. Then you slowly return to life again… Arequipa would soon turn out to be a very good place to stay put for a while. In fact, the city was just the kind of place I had been dreaming about [ Read More ]
There are several tours that leave daily for the Misti volcano, but I thought it would be more interesting to do the climb independently. On Couchsurfing I had met Aldo, a local Arequipeño as well as Stasia from Russia and Ricardo from Spain. Over breakfast at the hostel, Bea from Germany was not slow to [ Read More ]
Distance: 35.25 km Ride time: 2:28:13 Average: 14.25 km/h Altitude: 2335 m Total: 28866 km I woke up to a beautiful view over the Misti volcano – if all goes well I hope to stand up there on the top in a few days 🙂 I had slept at over 4000 m, and as I [ Read More ]
