Peru
"Desierto de Sechura" (Wueste). Wind und eine Bitte an den lieben Gott. Luchos Radfahrerhaus.
until Tuesday, 11/07/2006 Tuesday, 12/14/2006
Now I'm already in Peru. Can I still not even imagine. I leave the mountains for the first time are left (in the truest sense of the word). Now there is another "friend" of the cyclists (see Note below "The four enemies of the cyclist"), which it did to me: The wind.
I'm going right along the coast and because he "is" mostly from the front. My speed is often only 15/16 km / h. But sometimes I have him in my back, which is then a highlight of the day, unfortunately, rare. The road executed here on the coast by a wild kind field. Although it is dry and warm, but hardly sweating by the breeze. No unpleasant ride. Yesterday I had a crazy ride of 191 km over 11 hours (even with slightly undulating terrain with 628 vertical meters), tomorrow it will be through the desert 200 km (so far my only 200 km route on this tour) and so I treat myself today a day of rest, because it means time to get up and go to 5 clock.
people, since P anama feel / I know I can do the tour. Can you imagine in what kind of mood I find myself?
later 4 days in Trujillo: There were only 200 km. After 12 ½ hours bike ride (15 hours on the way) I was at the end of my arts / forces. It was dark and the "Policia carretera" had pity and took me to a toll for was a night with him on, because there was no hotel in town and camp impossible. The next days the wind strengthened and even the day after tomorrow I'll be back "flee" in the mountains. They are "only" purgatory compared to the hell of the wind.
While driving through the desert of thought that might be included discussions have taken place.
"Dear God" - so there you -, "give me times 100 or 200 km with a slight slope and a little tailwind, or even one of them, but by no means against the wind and the mountains. "
" My son, "said the Lord said," you were . wicked but the route the other way around, from south to north down, you had the last three days had a tailwind "
The devil, diabolical grin: "..... and yet we still keep nice head wind for distances up ready. "
And yesterday (Sunday 12.11.2006), as that was the worst, I decided the hell but avoid it for now to Purgatory Although that is cast out Satan with Beelzebub. But when you drive uphill, you drive at least at some point down again, but does not automatically headwind tailwind elsewhere, only if you are lucky, you get caught sometimes what. However, it can also stop headwind twice but three days later I had hoped in vain.
Today on Tuesday I am on the computer done and who also had his little devil, because the server had with the bloggers after the images submit problems, he put me first time, 25 images are not and I had to re- . enter
Here in Trujillo there is a cyclist house. A former Top racing driver who also drives active, takes in his house, just to anyone who is on a big bike tour. Lucho has a thick guest book (a couple of volumes), fill in where all the go on a great journey. He does not serve all age, but the oldest, Alaska - Tierra del Fuego drive or vice versa, I am one already. At present are out of me to Franco Canadians and a Russian couple from St. Petersburg in the house. It's like a family and we will exchange course in particular our range of experiences. It's great and caused me to stay a day longer. So I could update the diary and collect useful information on another tour.
Green Desert. Machu Picchu. The lines of Nasca. A false "Fuffzcher. A home for children - help for children
Wednesday, 15/11/2006 to Saturday, 02/12/2006
From Trujillo I then took time but it was the way along the coast to Lima. It was a wonderful trip, sometimes even with tailwind through the desert. First it went through an area where people are attempting an ambitious program on the coast to use the desert for plant growing - and as far as I can tell - also with success. It is amazing to see how large green areas spread to the Wuestensand be obtained by irrigation and animals (birds!) Provide a new habitat. Inland impressed the desert by their majesty and silence (when no car is coming). I love this barren landscape, so it was a pleasure to drive there.
It leads a six-lane road through autobahnaehnliche Lima, you can use as a cyclist, but it requires full attention and coolness to move between all the trucks, buses and cars. On the first one, go far left. On the next days cycling times made fun again with almost no wind and with slopes that were within the limits of endurance.
In Nasca I appealed for a halt in order to see my bike and in a short trip (14 hours bus ride !) To go to Cusco. There I looked at the impressive cathedral, a church (actually the union of three churches), as I had not seen in its decoration. And of course I took the train (this move only through the Urubamba Valley is an experience, a spectacular Streckenfuehrung, partly in a zig-zag back and forth to win in this way at altitude) to Machu Picchu, an Inca settlement site , which was rediscovered in 1901 by farmers, but perceived by the scientific world in 1911.
Back from Cusco I flew over the "Nazca lines" those enigmatic figures on a plateau in the area around Nasca to their documentation and research the Dresden scientist Maria Reiche has rendered outstanding (I had already visited the museum in Ica). When I boarded a sightseeing tower in front of my driveway to Nasca and to recognize me as a German, gave me told the cashier (1 Sol = 0.25 €) in German, that comes from Maria Reiche Dresden. "I," I said what pleased him and he asked for a postcard from Dresden. When I told him one of the rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche was, he was blessed.
When leaving Nasca turned to me, a 50-sol "flower" (approx. € 12.50) at what I found and the operation of a restaurant for the first 6 hours later.
Nazca it was three days along the coast and get the hell was probably new coal and the hellfire (read: the headwind) re-ignited. Average speeds of 13km / h and in journey times of approximately 10 hours, as announced. And then I was behind Camana in a 15 km-long rise after 6 km not resist "foreign deep". A truck driver stopped by itself to (the first in Alaska) and offered me to anzuhaengen me or charge after another 3 km the bike and ride. I was actually just up the hill, but then could the temptation to say of the urgent publication of the driver ("It's still two long and steep, high and we even take you to Puno with") can not resist all and made me take at least until Arequipa. I saved a day of driving, because the bike I would have the route (180 km at 2.300 Hm) in one day is not done. Anyone who has ever mistreated on the mountain, will understand that. I escaped that day but also some nice Rueckenwindstrecken and descents.
Now I'm in Arequipa in a facility that we - my wife and I had-for years supported by a Swiss missionary society.
I live in a small room in the house a kind of flat, but unlike us. Included are: a Peruvian (25), a Peruvian couple with a 9 month old child, a boy, Sixto (12) und ein Maedchen, Martha (15). Die zwei Kinder sind im Gebiet um Cusco zu Hause und lebten in 4.000 m Hoehe. Das Maedchen konnte die Sonnenstrahlung nicht vertragen und hatte eine akute Sonnenallergie, der Junge konnte wegen Armut der Mutter (8 Kinder, Vater an TBC gestorben) nicht mehr zur Schule gehen. Diese zwei haben jetzt hier in dieser kleinen Familie ein zu Hause gefunden, gehen zur Schule und sind froehliche Kinder. Heute hab ich mit ihnen einen Teil des Gartens umgegraben. Es stimmt einen sehr nachdenklich zu sehen, wie Kinder hier um eine Bildung ringen muessen, die ihnen in unserem Lande geradezu in den Schoss faellt. Mit dieser "Familie" werde ich sicher einen froehlichen, besinnlichen 1. Advent feiern. Sie werden singen, wir werden am Vormittag Stollen and bake cookies and I will leave (unfortunately) on Monday, but with a feeling of regret and even a bit of shame, a feeling that can not be described.
This facility is funded entirely by donations from Germany, Switzerland, the United States and will continue to be supported on a modest part of us. I come back on occasion!
4528 m! About Lake Titicaca.
until Sunday, 03/12/2006 Saturday, 09/12/2006
They were apparently on the way from Arequipa to Juliaca "just" overcome altitude to 1,500 (2,300 m to 3,800 m), but my Hoehenmesser zeigte zwischenzeitlich 4.200 m (eine amtliche Angabe lautete sogar 4.528 m) und in dieser Hoehe fuhr ich fast 2 Tage. Da macht sich mangelnde Anpassung stark bemerkbar: leichte Kopfschmerzen und sehr schnell Ermuedung, so dass ich oft absteigen und ausruhen, ja (bei einer Uebersetzung von 22 : 32 !!!) sogar absteigen und schieben musste und das in einem Gebiet, wo die Hauptsteigungen schon hinter/unter mir lagen. Fuer 400 km brauchte ich 4 ½ Tage und war an jedem Abend geschafft. Dabei waren die Uebernachtungsmoeglichkeiten - wenn ueberhaupt vorhanden - sehr einfach und anspruchslos. Einmal schlief ich in einer Polizeistation.
Heut bin ich in Puno angekommen, das waren nur 52 km. Doch ich merkte, dass I'm already well adapted height, for I had been on a long climb no condition problems and the legs are not heavy. Tomorrow morning it with a small private boat for a lot of money over Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian border, in the evening I will be in Copacabana (Bolivia) and thus take leave of Peru - a country that has me off calls kraeftemaessig much to me as well much is given, has glimpses of nature experiences and social. My half day stay in Puno had me this tourist town, and his life to get to know a little closer.
Stats
Peru: 2,690 km (+ 52 km), 13 100 Hm, 173:13 hours (225:05 hr)
21 ½ Tage, 7 ½ Ruhetage, 3 Exkursionstage
125 km /Tag, 15,5 km/Std., 609 Hm/Tag, 487 Hm/100 km
Tourverlauf:
Huaquilla (Grenze) - Tumbes - Talara - Sullana (1A) - Piura - Chiclayo - Trujillo - Chimbote - Barranca (1N) - Ancón (NS) - Lima (1N) - Chinca Alta - Piso - Ica -Nasca (1S) - [Nasca - Cusco (26A mit Bus) - Machu Picchu (mit Eisenbahn und Bus); gleicher Weg zurueck nach Nasca] - Lomas - Atico - Camana (1S) - (von 21 km hinter Camana mit LKW bis...) Arequipa - Juliaca (28, 30B, 30A) - Puno (3S) - mit Barke ueber Titicaca-See bis Yonguyo (mit Rad) zur Grenze nach Bolivien (O.Nr.) - Copacabana (Bolivia)
photos to Bolivia
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