Category: travel
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![Walk like an Inca [33/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_4786.jpg)
Walk like an Inca [33/50]
The Incas in the 16th Century controlled an empire of states and bands of indigenous South Americans that stretched from the south of Colombia to just below Santiago in Chile. To connect the empire, they constructed a vast and complex road network, similar to the Romans in Eurasia, but unlike the Romans, the Incas had…
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![Machu Picchu: returning the Inca gold [32/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_5083.jpg)
Machu Picchu: returning the Inca gold [32/50]
After riding the pre-Colombian moto for half the length of the Inca empire in about two weeks, I decided to stop in Cusco for a while where there is good food and coffee. Cusco was the capital of the Incas, the largest South American empire, that violently imploded with the arrival of the Spanish in…
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![Riding Peru’s Canon del Pato, the World’s most dangerous road! [31/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-mg_43403-1.jpg)
Riding Peru’s Canon del Pato, the World’s most dangerous road! [31/50]
Roads come in all shapes and sizes, and some are undoubtedly more dangerous that others (and for different reasons). Some roads are dangerous because of banditos or revolutionaries, some are dangerous because of their condition or environmental placing, and some are dangerous because conforming Modernists are unable to respond independently to uncertain, non-pre-programmed conditions (it…
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![Riding a (small) moto through Peru..[30/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//Screenshot_2015-08-08-21-28-51.png)
Riding a (small) moto through Peru..[30/50]
After leaving Vilcabamba in Ecuador, I rode a blissful 200 kms to the Peruvian border at Macara in the belief that this was the most important land border and thus the easiest to cross. But it turned out to be little more than a grumpy man in a hot shed who insisted on seeing my…
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![Shacked-up in Vilcabamba…[29/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-mg_4192.jpg)
Shacked-up in Vilcabamba…[29/50]
Vilcabamba, about 200 kilometers from the Peruvian border, was the last town I visited in Ecuador. It is a classic small Ecuadorian town, built on an orderly grid, lined with wobbly, white-washed adobe houses with a shaded town square in the centre (with the ubiquitous Catholic Church bearing down). But what makes Vilcabamba different to…
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![La vida bohemia en Cuenca [28/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_3977.jpg)
La vida bohemia en Cuenca [28/50]
Occasionally when traveling with a bit of time on one’s hands, one stumbles upon a place in which they identify so strongly that they find it difficult to leave . Cuenca in southern Ecuador was such a place for me. With a rich historical landscape suited for flanerie, a vibrant nightlife, small bohemian bars and…