Alexa Hooper
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 18:49 UTC 14th January 2012

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Piura, Peru

The Duchess has arrived at the finish line - no rooms for 6 so staying @ Hotel Los Portales.

Alexa Hooper
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 00:42 UTC 14th January 2012

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Piura, Peru

Overshot Piura by 4km! Heading 2 hotel Peru or El Sol. Need beers!

Alexa Hooper
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 23:51 UTC 13th January 2012

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BayÃ³var, Peru

Tried to make it 2 coast. Sand storm, road + Duchess didnt agree. Fixed broken chain - on Pan 2 Piura.

Oliver Ferrari
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 14:43 UTC 13th January 2012

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And now, the end is near...

First a quick apology. It has been bought to my attention that after having titled my last blog entry "the Casino" I then didn't say anything more on that subject. So just to finish up that thread we stayed in a Casino/hotel two nights ago, which was nice. I won about 60 pence on the roulette wheel and then made the mistake of having a ciggy with the doorman, who tried to get me interested in a range of not to lovely prostitutes.

Since then we have been taking a bit of time for ourselves, seeing ancient ruins in and around Trujillo (whilst Patrick and I got the mototaxis fixed) before powering another 200k up the Pan American. This morning finds us only 215k short of the finish line in Piura, which we may well be sitting astride by this evening.

The driving has been very reasonable, the landscape is usually quite arrid and hot, although there are green strips of growth along the major waterways.The duchess has been (fingers crossed) behaving wonderfully. She always sounds about 5 minutes away from a breakdown, but, apart from a couple of thrown chains yesterday and a loose mudguard, we have had no major problems to report since hitting the coast. She only needs to give us one day more of good driving and I'm a happy man. Hope my next update will be from the finsish line.

All the best

Ollie

Chris Chant
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 15:12 UTC 9th January 2012

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Lima Region, Peru

spent the night in the back of the truck 30k south of Lima. Hoping to get an escort round the city today.

Chris Chant
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 00:11 UTC 9th January 2012

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Pisco, Peru

we are truck bound for Lima. Stopped near Pisco to play baseball with the driver and his family.

Chris Chant
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 16:53 UTC 8th January 2012

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HuaytarÃ¡, Peru

being smuggled out of the Andes on the back of a lorry - 3 mototaxis & 8 people. Stopped at 4700m for snowball fight.

Chris Chant
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 16:52 UTC 8th January 2012

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, Cerro Tunsulla, Peru

snow ahead stopped our progress last night. Kind locals gave us shelter, fresh andean trout and hot chips!

Chris Chant
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 06:16 UTC 6th January 2012

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Ayacucho, Peru

A miserable day today.we climbed to 15000ft,& in doing so got rained on, had to navigate flash floods, crashed into a car,& nearly got

Chris Chant
Of The Peruvian Connection: Tears, Tyres & Tweed
On the Mototaxi Junket Winter 2012 06:15 UTC 6th January 2012

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Ayacucho, Peru

A miserable day today.we climbed to 15000ft,& in doing so got rained on,had to navigate flash floods, crashed into a car,& nearly got

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Piura, Peru

Piura, Peru

BayÃ³var, Peru

And now, the end is near...

Lima Region, Peru

Pisco, Peru

HuaytarÃ¡, Peru

, Cerro Tunsulla, Peru

Ayacucho, Peru

Ayacucho, Peru