Tag: travel
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![Cusco, not dangerous enough! [35/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_4856.jpg)
Cusco, not dangerous enough! [35/50]
Some people travel forever on predefined routes (and not just geographically). It’s not that the places they go are necessarily breaking bad, it is just that there are always many more options. The herd goes to Galapagos when Manu is possibly better. The crowd goes to Rio when Puerto Maldonado has far less rabid street…
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![Walking the Lares Valley trek [34/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-mg_5195.jpg)
Walking the Lares Valley trek [34/50]
About 100 Kms outside Cusco branching off the famous Sacred Valley, with it’s numerous Inca ruins, is the Lares Valley that is possibly the most pretty valley that I have ever traversed. Peru and the other Andean countries are not short of valleys, and there are thousands of them each with their own unique geographic…
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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…