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Hi, my name is Thomas Andersen. In October 2010 I left Denmark by bicycle, not knowing what to expect. What followed was an epic journey.
I have cycled through Eastern Europe learning all about the local beer, I have been chased by dogs in Turkey. I have pedalled through Syria before the war. I have been a celebrity in Malaysia, and worked on a huge cattle station in Australia.
I spent the year of 2014 cycling through South America which looked like this!
In 2016 I flew to Cape Town and cycled back to Denmark where it all started 6 years earlier.
I hope you will enjoy your stay on this site. Come along by checking out the diary below, and also the feeds on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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, ...
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 ...
Distance: 91.73 km
Ride time: 7:04:26
Average: 12.98 km/h
Altitude: 4018 m
Total: 28831 km
After yet another cold night at the altiplano I was happy when I passed a village after only half an ...
Distance: 80.62 km
Ride time: 8:00:13
Average: 10.08 km/h
Altitude: 4224 m
Total: 28739 km
I'm on my way to Arequipa, and from the weather forecast I have seen that the daily temperatures down there ...
Distance: 80.04 km
Ride time: 5:37:24
Average: 14.24 km/h
Altitude: 3982 m
Total: 28659 km
Rest days in Cuzco and visiting Machu Picchu - there haven't been much cycling lately. I enjoyed the feeling of ...
It was another long 8 hour bus ride back to Puno where my bicycle was waiting. Once again I had chosen the cheapest company, and once again it was not ...
Back in Cuzco the weather was changing... instead of the constant sunshine I had been experiencing over the last months, it was now cloudy and rainy. I good excuse to ...
It was not a completely trivial decision to go to Machu Picchu. A visit there would blow the normal cycling budget to pieces. The question was - would it be ...
After some considerations the plan was now clear; I would take the bus to Cuzco, visit Machu Picchu, and then come back to Puno and continue to cycle from there.
This ...
Distance: 57.17 km
Ride time: 3:40:34
Average: 15.59 km/h
Altitude: 3827 m
Total: 28579 km
The stomach was still not at 100% as I left Llave. Luckily there was only some 50 km to cycle ...
