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The endless, wind-scorched roads of South Patagonia, where Peycho and I first ran into each-other.
You build acceptance to discomfort when fighting these headwinds on a bicycle.
Just have to reach those mountains and the headwind should stop
Peycho fighting his way up a gravel climb on the Carreterra Austral
El Chalten National Park: The first vision of a bamboo raft was discussed while we hiked this beautiful National Park
El Chalten National Park: The first vision of a bamboo raft was discussed while we hiked this beautiful National Park
El Chalten National Park: The first vision of a bamboo raft was discussed while we hiked this beautiful National Park
El Chalten National Park: The first vision of a bamboo raft was discussed while we hiked this beautiful National Park
Those lovely lonely roads
It was never easy, it was never boring, it was always beautiful.
Dwarfed by beauty
Crossing Bolivia on a bicycle, Peycho and I had many up-front encounters with indigenous people.
Due to huge amounts of silver, Potosi in Bolivia had constructed some impressive monasteries in its heydays.
A lonely llama shephard is following his herd across the cold, barren high-plains of Bolivia while a shadow of an adventurer is admiring the spectacle
While cycling across the impressive Salar de Uyuni in Bolovia, a local family rushes out of her car to meet the foreigners and have a photo taken, instantly handing her baby to Henrik
Lovely Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, surely is a stunningly beautiful place on Earth
Several forms of vegetation still thrives, just below 5000m (16400 ft). Bolivia.
Don’t have much, but they have a smile; these poor, rural Bolivian high-plain farmer kids.
While cycling the lonely Bolivian roads, we came across this traditional celebrations near the outskirts of a village.
Summiting Huyani Potosi near La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. At 6088m, it’s the highest either of us have ever been (20000 ft). Some scary sections, near the top.
At 5100m, La Rinconada is the highest city on our planet (16730 ft). 30.000 people mine gold here.
Here in Cusco, Peru, the idea of the bamboo raft took real shape.
The absolute very first draft of how the raft could look like, made in Cusco. The end-product was not that far off, though a giant snake never attacked us, as the draft predicts.
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