Category: Biketravel

  • January picture 2025

    January picture 2025

    January picture: Off to a new adventure!

  • Dead end Panamericana?

    Dead end Panamericana?

    The Panamericana. Panama was the last Central American country on my route to South America. Together with François – a cycle traveller I had met a few days earlier in Costa Rica – we entered the country without any problems at the Paso Canoas border crossing. The new stamp in our passports authorised us to…

  • December picture 2024

    December picture 2024

    December picture: Guest of the vicuñas.

  • Define green! – Costa Rica

    Define green! – Costa Rica

    Expensive and bursting with Western culture – that was my image of the small country between Nicaragua and Panama. A country that is best travelled through quickly as a budget traveller on a bike. Of course, I hadn’t done any research, these ‘facts’ were just what I had picked up from other cycle travellers.

  • The magic of the Bolivian Altiplano + November picture

    The magic of the Bolivian Altiplano + November picture

    After a week in La Paz, I heaved the loaded bike up the stairs to the cable car gondolas. This little sweat-inducing effort was certainly better than the tedious, even more sweat-inducing climb up through the heavy traffic of the Bolivian city, back to the Altiplano plateau …