Abancay, Peru

Started off the day in the desert, climbed into the Andes up to 4500M on some passes and had roads from frustratingly pot holed to race track smooth. I ended up in a deep glacial valley where the road followed a river with waterfalls and everything. Good ...

Simon: Breaking up the hideously long journey to Cusco, we stopped off at this little town on the way. Abancay isnŽt really on the gringo trail, but being a bit worn out and in the middle of yet another bout of gastro-intenstinal mayhem, we thought weŽd just ...

  In the morning we got up in the cold air but warm sun of the mountain campsite we found in the dark the night before.  We cleaned up and did the dishes in the clear cold water from the mountain brook. While packing up the bikes ...

... tidbit (which seems paradoxical in and of itself).  This is the reason that this entry has the name that it does.  Abancay is famous for chicharrones, a type of fried meat, usually pork.  A while ago, there was a lady who owned a ...